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Diary of a Weightlifter - Get a Little Better Every Day

By Thorin Gault ompetitive weightlifters are numbers inevitably start to drop, Humans REQUIRE growth
Ca rare breed. Competitive so it isn’t about feeding their egos, in order to truly experience
Masters weightlifters are even either. fulfillment. We NEED to be
more rare. Very few people have The greatest gift I receive from expanding, improving, and going
any desire to do what we do in the sport is the journey to getting a deeper to feel joy. For whatever
order to get the results that we get. reason, many people lose this as
little better every day. Even when I
That being said, when you speak am not achieving personal records, they age. They do the same job
day after day and year after year.
to a competitive weightlifter, I feel immense joy from small
they absolutely love it. They technical improvements finally They have the same routines. They
are consumed by it. They gain a executed. Learning and applying accept a lower standard in their
tremendous amount of joy from the new ways to recover more health and relationships. They
grueling, difficult, and repetitive effectively feels like Christmas stop learning new things. They get
addicted to just being comfortable
practice of their discipline. morning. When I recently took
a needed break from training, it and trade that for passion and deep
Much of this joy and fulfillment joy.
comes from the consistent focus wasn’t about NOT weightlifting
– I daily had the sense that I was Weightlifting and other
on getting a little better every day.
Masters’ lifters do not participate giving my body what it needed disciplines like it are trivial, in
to heal so that I could come back and of themselves. When used as
in the sport for the glory of
competition (there is not much). better than ever. a way to pay attention to getting
Once you reach a certain age your There is a life lesson in this. better every day it can completely
transform a life.