This is Mark Bell from Super Training Gym, Super Training Gym, the strongest gym in the West out here in West Sacramento, California on yet another 10 minute walk.

Man and his weakness is a creature of circumstances.

Man and his strength is the creator of circumstances.

Orson Sweat Martin. I'm reading this quote to you today because I think that this is a really, really powerful quote.

And I'd like to give you guys my interpretation of it.

Let's start out with the beginning of this thing. Man and his weakness

is a creature of circumstances. I think a lot of times our circumstances, we just think there are circumstances. This is just the way it is.

Just our environment is just this way. You know using fitness as an example. A lot of times

people are like well my family is pretty fat and unhealthy.

I'm pretty fat and unhealthy. It's just my genetics.

Sure, there's genetic components to a lot of things.

There's tons of genetic components mixed in there, right? We know that. But you're not fat because of your genetics. You're probably fat because of your environment and because of your habits more so than anything else.

Your genetics, you know, they kind of give you a code once you're, you know, kind of out in the world,

but there's a lot of people fighting their genetics

that aren't fat I would be one of them and fighting the environment I grew up

in where we just had an abundance of food. A lot of times when you have

these circumstances, I mean some people are born with crazy circumstances

and some people get into crazy circumstances later on in life.

Some people are born without a leg.

Some people have to get an arm amputated because of an accident of some kind,

a skiing accident, they broke a bunch of bones in her arm and

arms never going to heal or it happens to the leg or the foot.

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