Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
I have been gone of late, but see that the topic of discussion is the present situation. I have been super busy with selling the most sought after thing in America. DUMBBELLS, BARBELLS (especially OLYMPIC) PLATES, and KETTLEBELLS. Dumbbell handles are super rare right now fetching prices in the upwards of 80 dollars a set. It is because the GYMNASIUMS have all closed with the churches. But, these guys and gals can't go virtual. You can't lift some crazy weight over the internet. You got to get you some Iron from the Iron pile. The boys and girls have to get going and pick up some heavy things and quick. Because there are gainzz a wasting away. People are getting smaller by the day.
Sad, but true, all over the country, the Iron brethren are in search of reps. No gym. But what I noticed, is that they are congregating in secret, forming into groups secretly in homes, garages, barns, backyards, places where they can't be heard lifting and clanging weights. They're meeting together in numbers, 20 sometimes 30. I have also seen new lifters become discouraged, and totally stop eating right, they have no equipment at home. No trainers to help them train, or give them encouragement. These new lifters, and people who were trying to get their lives in shape no longer have a gym. They can't virtual lift, no way to be encouraged by a YouTubes video on lifting, because a video can't train with you. A video can't spot you on the bench, or the squat rack. There is something about working out with other lifters to spur you on, while you are training. It is different for old lifters like us, we have been lifting for a long time. We can train all alone, we know how to do things where a spotter isn't needed. We don't need to be spurred on, because it is all second nature to us, plus we understand the consequences of stopping, or not finishing a set. The newbies don't understand that, or the young people who are just coming into the Iron Pile.
I have sold more weights in three weeks then I have ever in my life. It has been unprecedented what is happening. Another thing, I had an individual who is a lifter, and so is his girlfriend. While he is curled up in the fetal position on the couch watching reruns of Gilligan's Island, and eating Hagendaz. His girlfriend is knocking down reps doing flies with two car rims. Two different mindsets. Both were gym rats extraordinaries. But since the Gym sent them the Dear John Email one got so low he couldn't maintain at home. Home couldn't do it for him, instead of doing what is girlfriend was doing through improvisation. He curled up in the fetal position and started sucking his thumb. He wasn't a newbie. He wasn't a new convert who didn't know how to go in and out. He was a lifter for years, but since he no longer had Cybex, Hammer Strength Equipment, and a row of dumbbells on a rack he fell apart.
Yet, when he got around other lifters he didn't get a shoulder rub down, and a sweet love message. His girlfriend showed him no mercy, because she was smashing sets to powder, like a champion. He got brought back in line with some one on one pointing towards the way to the Iron Pile. Hey, most of you people have been Apostolic since Olan Mills was a boy. So, you are going to do alright, but what about soul winning? What about new visitors? What about praying people through to snot bubbles and tears? Kinda hard snotting up in a mask. What about water baptism? I guess that got put on hold as well?
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