04/17/2019
Our motto and goals. 💪🏼
Awesome read and goals for us with
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Louie asked me this past weekend to write down some of my memories from the gym during my time there (the 90’s). When I first came, it was a commercial gym, then moved to the boxer in the basement location, and finally to the location in projects.
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I won’t be posting these stories, as they will be for Louie, but I may drop an occasional one here and there because, as I was taking notes today, there’s a lot! I didn’t just train there, he was my direct training partner, I traveled with him to all the meets and seminars, trade shows and broke him out of the hospital after his partial shoulder replacement. I loved and hated that fu**er.
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What always comes to my mind first are the rules we had. Most were nothing new to me, due to the lifters and groups I’ve trained with my entire life, but they were not as “real” as they were at WSBB and I loved it! Some were stated others were just learned.
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Powerlifting had to be your FIRST priority.
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Don’t miss sessions EVER. Don’t be late EVER! I saw and was part of kicking very good lifters out for those two.
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You compete or leave.
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Once you commit to the meet you do it, no matter what. I never missed a meet and had many poor meets or bomb outs because I lifted injured. Never back out!
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Make those less than you better than you.
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Never sit during a dynamic squat or bench session.
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Leave your drama outside the door. It took me years to find out that some of the guys I trained with were married. We talked s**t and we talked training. That was it.
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Go to meets to help your team and pay your own way there.
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ONLY enter the open division.
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Everyone trained the same lifts on the same day (except supplemental movements that were weak-point specific).
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Know the program.
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There is an AM crew and a PM crew. No other crew. Train in one or the other or not at all.
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Make the gym better.
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If you get called out, step up
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Realize you don’t matter at all - your numbers do, and those are only as good as your last meet.
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Training hard was not expected, it was a given. If you couldn’t handle it, leave.
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Don’t be the one who worked the least. That woul