Why Strength is the Most Important Thing

     There is absolutely nothing like being weak. Being weak will guarantee that you grow old and develop osteoporosis. It will mean that you can't play with your grandkids because you are always so tired and everything hurts. Being weak will put you on a cane, then a walker, then a wheelchair until the day your maker calls you home. If you were moving something even a little heavy, you would never ask a weak person, unless that is the only option, and even then, he or she will only get in the way and end up dropping something on your foot. Being weak means being less useful, and maintaining a built in helplessness that is hard to put into words. 

    Being strong, on the other hand, is one of the most freeing feelings in the world. It is not necessarily deadlifting 500 pounds, but it IS the fact that you can help your buddy move a washing machine (if you have ever moved a washing machine, you know it's the heaviest appliance known to man). Being strong means you can hike up a steep incline without feeling like you are going to die. It means being picked first for flag football with your buddies. It means being more useful and carrying around the confidence of someone knowing they could do almost whatever they wanted to at the drop of a hat. You no longer have to think twice about picking up a 3 year old, you no longer worry about rebricking your walk way and being unable to move for 3 days. There are just fewer worries in general for strong people. As the Asgard Company says: "Strong people are harder to kill, and more useful in general."

    You can be too skinny, too fat, or too whiny. But it is impossible to be too strong. Strength will not slow you down or make you injured or give you arthritis. Strength is the golden key to unlock every door life has to offer. 

    Strength CAN be relative, but game recognizes game. You show me a 70 year old woman that can squat 95 pounds, and you have shown me a strong, independent woman that will not go gently into that good night. You show me a 17 year old kid that can squat 500 pounds deep and you have shown me a D1 collegiate athlete that will have a long, lucrative career. Show me a 30 year old 150 pound woman with a 300 pound deadlift and you have shown me a person that will never get osteoporosis or use a wheelchair for more than a few weeks. If you want to stay small, that's fine, but you may NOT stay weak. It is a waste of the potential that God bestowed unto you from the first breath you took, and it is a disservice to everyone in your life that does now, or will ever count on you.

    So go forth and build your strength, display your strength, enjoy your strength. The only other option is to be weak, and that obviously isn't REALLY an option.  

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