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Heavylifting.club is a public journal documenting my attempt to relearn some habits I once practiced consistently; reading and lifting. And also attempting to learn some new; reflecting and writing.
Life doing what life does…work, family, and the constant screaming of the world trying to steal my attention, I felt as though I had lost the time to practice what I used to. And I felt the ability to have a coherent, ordered thought slipping away from me.
So I decided I needed accountability.
I had journaled before, but it was never a priority. I would string together a few good days, maybe a week or two, then I would taper off. The problem was there was nothing necessarily requiring me to do it. So I thought, why not be accountable in a public forum.
So every week I’ll journal daily in a notebook and those entries will coalesce into a Training Log. A couple sentences about my weeks reading and lifting, then the format of an observation, a reflection, a resolution and a question to carry forward into the next week.
I’ll write on Sundays and schedule to publish at 12:01 AM Monday.
I'll also be pinning a Current Reading page for the books I'm reading to help better inform where my minds at for the Training Logs. Feel free to read along if you're so inclined.
Im not a professional writer.
Im not a strength coach.
Im not here to teach anyone.
Im just a guy who used to read and lift heavy, trying to figure out how to do that again in his current state of life, and record it faithfully and clearly.
Why heavylifting.club? What club?
I think of it kind of like how two people who practice the same thing can recognize each other if they start a conversation. It’s not a club in any formal sense. When the idea first popped into my head, the idea was much broader. I thought I wanted to start an actual book and barbell club. But in working through the process of what I actually wanted to accomplish, it distilled down to a public, lived out journal. I even had this really cool tag line for the original project idea “Where The Weights Are Heavy, But The Books Are Even Heavier”. I always thought that just sounded cool. Anyways, if your into heavy weights and heavy books…..welcome to the club.