To remind myself I’m part of something bigger.
This is Matthais Steiner. He’s a German Olympic weightlifter in the highest weight category. He once made a promise to his wife, a promise that one day he would win a gold medal in the Olympics and be the strongest man in the world. He trained for years for this, and just a month before he would go on to compete, his wife tragically died in a car accident. In order to break the record, he’d need to lift 20 kilograms more than he’d ever lifted. This is the video of his attempt at the gold medal.
cmon brahs. i almost shed a man tear
Holy shit.
Greatest thing ever
encouragement
This is one of my favorite pictures on tumblr
^ me too :)
I feel like from right to left is the progression of my face as the exercise gets harder haha. First an attempt at just powering through it, Secondly an attempt to take the zen approach and figure the pain and thirdly, controlled breathing that sounds a lot like those birthing exercises haha
I love this.













