{"id":508162,"date":"2023-05-21T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T00:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=508162"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T00:41:38","slug":"no-fear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/21\/no-fear-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are you capable of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Fear\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJqemPFf9-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just loaded up my Texas squat power bar at the gym, 925 pounds in total, that is nine plates, 25, and a five pounder taped on top. The interesting thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No fear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The goal?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, courage is everything. Curiosity and courage actually mean the same thing; couer means heart. Same also goes with curate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I max out the barbell, attempting to lift over 900 pounds, people are always befuddled and ask me why I do it, what the purpose of it is, etc. I never have a quick enough or witty enough response. Typically I just say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To fulfill a personal curiosity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The personal curiosity of the limits of a human body, my human body, how much I could lift, without taking steroids etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But perhaps, a better way to think about it is actually, I do it as a means to conquer fear. To me a perfect lift is a lift in which your approach it, give it your all without any hesitation or fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, I believe that 99% of street photography is simply conquering your fears. To not let hesitation get in your way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What do we regret?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like, typically our biggest regrets or regrets related to cowardice, or fear. For example, you wanted to ask that one girl out on a date, but, you were afraid of getting rejected, and you never did. Or you were fearful for asking her to get married, and you never asked, because you were fearful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know for weightlifters, powerlifters, people like me who enjoy doing one rep max of times, I think the biggest regrets we have is when we want to lift a certain weight, but fear and hesitation gets in our way, and instead, we lift a lesser amount, afraid that we may \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hurt\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, an interesting thing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned is the fear of hurting yourself is actually a good motivator to force you to focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, now at the gym, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m laser focused. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fuck around. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t rush my warm-up routine, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also been going harder in my warm up, stretching, yoga routine before I lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you capable of? Just loaded up my Texas squat power bar at the gym, 925 pounds in total, that is nine plates, 25, and a five pounder taped on top. 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