posted May 25, 2000 02:01 AM            

You enter the bottom of the cave and look around its confines. There are others here. Others that noticed your denial of the magic formulas. The training of your body through exercises taught to you by your father. Long you trained with the heaviest objects you could find. Sometimes long into the night when other had long been asleep. The others said nothing. Their faces said everything. They were strong too. Muscles made of sweat,blood, and iron. This was your test for the Brotherhood. A group of rebellious barbarian slaves. A slave just like you. You look to the center of the room where a stone dais long and narrow was placed. You know the test, the one your father took long ago.

As you lay down on the dais, the drums and low chanting begins. A secret ceremony of the Brotherhood. Your heart starts to race but you calm yourself purposely. You try to focus on the test in front of you.

Four elders bring to you Barbellk, the ancient black iron weight of ages. Forged in the eternal fires of Grathis. Barbellk was a long rod almost as long as a man was tall. On each end was a massive Iron Ball forged in the form of a screaming skull. It was said the weight was tremendous, that men had been crushed under its weight only to die in obscurity and failure. The guards of Veider feared the artifact.

Barbellk was placed on your chest by the elders and you grabbed the black iron shaft on each side of your chest. It was all you could to to keep the weight from crushing you. Just as the chanting and the drums were reaching a crescendo. The cacophony stopped. The only sound that filled the room now was that of the crackling fires and your trancelike breathing. You focused your mind and put forth all the knowledge given to you by your father. With all your god given might you pushed up the crushing weight to a position a few feet above you. There you stopped. The test was over, you had passed. The others and the elders cried in praise. The elders moved forward to grab the weight. But surprising to all including yourself, you let the weight drop down once again to your chest. the room was dead quiet. With Herculean effort you pushed the obelisk up a second time.

As the elders took Barbellk from you, you looked around the room. They saluted you, pounding a fist their chest. You were accepted. You part of the Brotherhood. A Weapon of Iron. A Solider of Iron. Veider's days were numbered.

posted May 25, 2000 02:37 AM            

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"Pain is only weakness leaving your body!"

posted May 25, 2000 03:21 AM            

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"Pain is only weakness leaving your body!"

posted May 25, 2000 03:31 AM            

day2:
Back/rear deltoid/calves:
seated reverse grip pulldowns
barbell rows
dumbell rows
rear deltoid machine
hyperextensions
standing calf raise
leg press calf raise

day3:
cardio + abs

day4:
biceps/tricep (armageddon-program)
frenchpress
barbell curls
pressdowns
consentration curls
overhead barbell extensions
hammercurls
wrist curls/rev. wrist curls

day5:
Legs:
Legpress
leg extension
front squat
stifflegged deadlifts
seated leg curl
abd./abb

dag6:
cardio + abs

Right now im dieting down, that means half an hour cardo at 05.00 AM every morning

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"Pain is only weakness leaving your body!"