About a week or so ago, one of my personal training clients came in and told me she has a story of real world application of strength training.  In the story she needed to get a safety deposit box, and there was no one there to help her lift it.  After looking around for a couple minutes she says “F’ it” then proceeded to pick up this awkwardly heavy object and put it in her car, all by herself.

It’s actually a perfect indication of something I talk about…actually a bunch of different things which is why I struggled to name this article.  One, strength is freedom of choice.  She chose Eric Moss Fitness for all her health and fitness needs for which I’m thankful, which meant she was also given he choice of either waiting for help, or the freedom to say “F’ it” and just do it herself.  Either way it was her choice.

Now one thing with my training methods, is I purposefully avoid using weight belts despite people saying you need it because you can lift more weight safely.  Yeah, you can…but just because you can doesn’t mean you should.  In my opinion if you need a weight belt, in order to lift something safely…you quite simply aren’t ready to lift it… yet.  Lift weights you can safely handle without issue, and gently configure the programmatic variables of sets, repetitions and load ie weight on the bar until you can safely lift things you couldn’t safely lift before.  That and she didn’t have a weight belt when it came time to lift this awkwardly heavy object.  Most of us don’t carry that with us on the regular.

Now she knew she could do it.  Even though it’s awkward it was significantly less than what she lifts in my personal training studio which is conveniently located on Main Street in Boonton (as you can probably tell, I have a lot of inside jokes).  This woman who started with me in her 60’s is sub maximally Romanian deadlifting over 200lbs, hip thrusting over 400lbs, she’s done chin ups and a whole bunch of other brag worthy stuff.  And as much as I’ve helped her with her physical strength she came into it with a lot of mental strength.  Getting stronger in any way, will make you stronger in every way.

And beyond being able to lift awkward things in regular life, about a week or two before she had texted a bunch of us that she was able to do some highly vigorous hike that she had almost talked herself out of, because the reviews were a bunch of likely non active regular people were saying how hard it is.  But she had the freedom to do it, and she did it without issue and was happy she did because the view was beautiful.  She was able to experience something that not everyone would have the freedom to experience because they didn’t have the physical capacity to do so.

You have a choice.  You can either choose to continue living the way you’ve been living and gradually lose the things you enjoy doing.  If you want the freedom to be “F’it fit”, the freedom to do things you couldn’t do before then choose to take my free trial.  Just text me at 973 476 5328 and introduce yourself to get started.

Eric Moss is a personal trainer in Boonton and moonlights as a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, and motivational speaker. In the tradition of the strength performers more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a live show and travels across the country doing presentations on goal achievement for conferences, corporations, associations, nonprofits, and government entities as well as for schools and universities. His personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey and is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville, Kinnelon, Pine Brook, Butler, and Parsippany New Jersey.