It is in You

Categories: Uncategorized Mar 02, 2014

On the outside, I am Tim.  "Timmy" to those I grew up with.

On the inside though, I am Superman.

Inside of me there has always been a longing to be super: super fast, super strong,
super smart, super able and super capable. This desire has been in me for as long as I can
remember. When I was a child (it is highly debatable if I ever grew out of being a child), I wore
all the capes, masks, costumes, and under-roos (remember those?!) of superheroes like
Batman, Spider-Man, and of course Superman. While I no longer wear the capes (those things
are a bit dangerous), and even though I am almost 39 years old, I have never outgrown the
longing inside to be Superman. I still want to be super.

This longing hasn't been isolated to myself. When my son, Luke, was three years old, he too
wanted to be super. Luke would tell anyone who ever met him, without hesitation, that his name
was Batman. He would often correct other people when they called him, "Luke". I always wore
a smile on my face and had a warming sensation in my heart every single time I would hear him
say, "I'm Batman." When he said it, I believed him. I also understood. Luke was Batman. So
much so that when he would play organized sports, he could not run down the field without
holding his arms behind him as if he was trying to help his cape flap in the wind. In everyone's
eyes he was the boy on the soccer field who ran funny, but in Luke's head he was the Caped
Crusader chasing down an evil villain. Today, as I write this, Luke is eleven years old and he has
outgrown telling others he is Batman. But I still know the truth, the truth that he may wrestle with
for years to come: Luke is Batman. He is a superhero.

You are, too. At least, you were meant to be. We may spend most of our lives trying to appear
"normal" but I think somewhere inside of all of us there is a longing to be a superhero. Unless of
course, I simply have a superhero gene that I passed down to my son. Even though that would
be supercool, I am certain that is not the case. I rather believe that we are all like this on the
inside; we are all super.

We dream of being strong, resilient, impervious to injury, and capable of amazing feats. Some of
us become firemen, police officers, or join the military. Others of us, use exercise as a way to
keep ourselves strong, able and ready. Yes, ready. Be honest. Have you ever dreamed about
"saving the day?" You know you have, at least once if not a thousand times. Maybe you have
dreamed of rescuing someone from a burning building, maybe you have dreamed of scoring the
winning goal for your team, maybe you have even dreamed of what it would be like to give your
life to save someone else. The point is, IT is in you. On the inside, you are a superhero. No
matter how deep you have tried to bury it, there is a longing inside of you to be super, to be
special.

That is who you are: You are super. You are special. You were created to be super. Your body is
capable of so many wonderful things. Things like sprinting, jumping, pushing, throwing,
bounding, pulling, and climbing. You were born to do these things. You were also born with the
desire to do these things in epic, world saving, fashion. You were born with a desire to be super
- a desire that would fuel and nurture these abilities and gifts as you grew.

If you are familiar with Original Strength: Regaining The Body You Were Meant to Have, you are familiar with the idea that we can "press reset" and regain our original strength. We can regain the body we were meant to have by returning to the movements that are hard wired into us.

In a similar fashion, we can also awaken, or sharpen, the desire to become a superhero again.
After all, it is hardwired into us. When we start moving the way we were made to move, we start
feeling good, really good. We start feeling strong and capable, able to do anything. Eventually,
we may even start to daydream again about the possible scenarios of how we might be able
save the day. This may sound weird, but when we restore our bodies, we also restore our
internal desires and imaginations. Especially the ones that revolve around our physical abilities.

[caption id="attachment_1267" align="alignleft" width="224"] Original Strength Performance picks up where Original Strength ends. This book teaches the reader how to add progressions and resistance to the "resets" in order to build a body with superhuman abilities.[/caption]

The truth is, you should be physically capable of almost anything. You knew that as a child, you had no limitations. That wasn't supposed to change when you became an adult. You should still have that same mindset. It is possible to have a body without limits. It is possible to have a body on the outside that lines up with the superhero on the inside.

If this resonates with you, if this calls out to something deep inside of you, I urge you to check out Original Strength Performance: Becoming The Superhero You Were Meant to Be. In this book, we show you how to build a body (and mind) that is capable of anything by adding strength and endurance on top of a solid foundation of reflexive strength. In other words, we take the foundation that was laid from Original Strength, and then we add an amazingly strong structure on top of it by "strength training" with the resets. The results are a body that is without limits, a body that is capable and able.

Again, you were meant to be a superhero. Superheroes do not limp through life. They soar
through it. They conquer it. Your body is capable of being just as super on the outside as it
desires to be on the inside. You actually knew this once upon a time.

It is okay if you still have that longing to be a superhero within you. In fact, I think it is great. You
are supposed to feel that way. It is in you. And, it is in you for a reason. What will you do? Will
you embrace that desire? Will you answer the call? Will you be super, again?

If your answer is yes, check out Original Strength Performance and learn how to really unlock your superhero powers.

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