Role of Anger

The Role of Anger

            It’s the thing that keeps you going, it helps you get a boost, and it could make you stronger.  It’s like steroids but it’s totally legal and doesn’t shrink your junk.  It gives you strength to carry on, it gives you the grit to get that one more rep, then another, then another.  Makes you quit wasting time, and get going again.  This is anger and it can be the most powerful thing in the gym.

            Anger pushes you to get better, like a constant nagging in your ear to lift more and more.  Have you ever done something that you strive to get better at, then have you done the same thing in a total rage.  You feel empowered and you are magically better at whatever it was you were doing.  It sounds crazy but it works, musicians do it, poets do it, fighters do it, I’m doing it right now. 

            Now, anger can really help you in the gym with your weightlifting, but I’m not saying that if you bench press 100 pounds get in a fury and you can do 200, that’s about impossible.  But if you concentrate your anger on your objective and become totally focused on what you are doing, you will most likely be able to do more weight than you could do originally.

            True, anger is a big booster in the gym, but it only works if you are genuinely mad about something and only if you use your anger on lifting, not on something like punching the wall (that’s how hands get broken).  Also, if you are lifting while you are mad, try not to prove yourself to others to make yourself feel better, you could pull a muscle.  And if you do find that you can now do more weight than from before don’t show off about it because no one likes that and you could get your butt kicked by the people stronger than you in the gym. 

            Nothing feels as good as gains in the gym, and anger could help you do that, but if you’re not careful, you could get hurt or make all the people around you lose respect for you because of your actions.  So get mad, angry, and furious, just don’t break anything, but remember we’re all in this together, keep your stick on the ice.