never give up

My recent hobby is fitness, especially doing the Body Pump class (http://www.lesmills.com/site/programs/bodypump-group-fitness-program.aspx). This 60-minute workout challenges all the major muscle groups by using the best weight-room exercises like squats, presses, lifts and curls. It is a very effective program for a busy and lazy person like me

The workout focuses on the repetitions. The challenge is more on keep lifting my bar until the instructor say "Done" than on how many kilograms I can put on the bar. To put too light weights will benefit nothing because the muscle wouldn’t worked-out as expected while to put too heavy weights is certainly impossible. So the key is to put the optimal weights so it is heavy enough yet I can keep lifting the bar until the "Done".

The last counts, especially in the biceps part were always the hardest. It is always so hard to keep lifting my bar until the "Done" that the minutes always be such a special minutes during the whole class. And most of the time, the "Done" was coming shortly after I’ve given up. That’s why, lately I develop a "break the limit", "forget the pain" attitude, never-never give up, who knows the "Done" will come after this, after this, after this :)…

Well, the moments always give me quite deep insight, remind me to "never give up", the success could be the very next minutes after I dropped the bar.

A very inspirational film scene taught me the same thing.

It was the war between Orcs and Uruk-hais versus the Rohan, human cavalry clan in Rohan’s fortress, the Helm’s Deep in The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.

I remembered clearly that the Rohan which are very far-outnumbered by the Orcs / Uruk-hais keep fighting to protect their already broken-down fortress. The war kept continuing even over night while the Rohan army’s number kept decreasing very fast.

Never give up, even until the last drop of the blood.

Then suddenly with the first sun shine, came the bigger parts of Rohans led by the white wizard Gandalf which change the situation quite fast that at the end led to Rohan’s victory. I almost gave a standing-ovation back then

Never give up; success can be in the very next minutes…

Note: I'm still gym-freak guy but am now more interested in Body Balance and yoga classes. Yet now I need the 'never give up' spirit even more, especially to do headstand, arm balances, splits, full-bridge pose, and abs tracks *sigh* ...

(previously posted in Friendster on January 19th, 2007)