What Deadlifts Taught Me About Life - SAYS

imho What Deadlifts Taught Me About Life

First things first, it never gets easier.

By Xin-Ci Chin

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Towards the end of 2019, my personal trainer Nick tossed a bunch of weights on a barbell and said "Just three reps". I got crazy scared.

You see, his usual level up begins with eight reps… not three.Then he added, "OK, if you can do one that's also pretty good."Um. What?I managed two.

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Turns out, that was 60kg right there. At the time, I weighed about 50kg.

As I sat down in sheer amazement and a lot of exhaustion, I wondered how I got here and what the hell just happened.You see, 2019 was a gruelling year for me. Work was incredibly challenging with my leadership skills stretched like never before. I also lost my furbaby and best friend, Shandy, to cancer. To top it all off, I learned that we had finally found a new office space (yay!)… but it was a building right next to the place that is the mother of all my trauma triggers.Oh yeah, it was swell.But as I sat on that bench, I drew a lot of parallels between deadlifts and life. In typical Xinch fashion, I went home and wrote a journal entry about it.To commemorate my return to the gym grind in a post-lockdown world, I thought I'd share four things deadlifts taught me about life.