Fire Follows Failure
Try again. Don't give up. Just keep going. There are a million ways to say "you've got this," and this is my effort to add to that list in the least cliche way possible. The name of my gym is F3 Fitness--Form Follows Function, but recently the pattern of my lifts has been a different F3-- Failure, Failure Fire. (read: I am "failing" or "learning" 2/3 of the time). That is exactly what happened tonight. My bench has been up and down for a while now, and I used my last blog post as a personal vent session about what I thought was a lack of progress. Thankfully, as he always does, my trainer Clay Brandenburg knew exactly what to say when sending me this week's workouts: "Let's try this one more time," three singles at 120 lbs, something I haven't been able to achieve for the last 2 weeks. This week, it took me 5 tries, but I did get 3 singles, I just failed 2 times in the process. Afterwards, I snapped a pic of my favorite part o...