12/13 - db drag curl, wrist curls, hyperxtensions, calf press, treadmill 10min -- kb swing, wrist rollers, COCT, ab wheel, vacuum
Made of Awesome - Get Swole:
"Jonathan Stoklosa is a 31-year-old power lifter who also has Down Syndrome. Jonathan Stoklosa lives in Newark, Delaware and works as a bagger at a local grocery store. Despite his gentle demeanor and smile, he spends his spare time training as an elite power lifter. This elite athlete can bench-press more than 400 pounds He can also squat and dead lift 440 pounds. He has also branched out beyond the Special Olympics and now competes in competitions that are open to all, against athletes who aren’t disabled."
"Stoklosa took third in his age division after bench-pressing 402.5 pounds in a New York competition. At this same competition, he was awarded the “Most Inspirational” title, a unanimous choice by his competitors. He began lifting at 12-years-old and could bench-press 185 pounds by the time he was 13, and moved up to 225 by his 16th birthday. In 1999, he won gold in the Special Olympics World Games. “You can’t help but love him. When he competed last year, everybody showed up to watch him. They’re in awe of his gifts,” said Brochey, who organized the recent power lifting event Jon competed in, held at Mickey Rats in Angola, N.Y. “Once he gets up there, nobody notices any handicap he has. He’s a competitor. He’s just like everybody out there.”"
Dude got ripped on 2 rounds of X3.
"Now that I've had some time to think about it, I think this is what I'd say – or what I'd want to say – if asked the same questions again: "Luigi, when you were a kid, didn't you dream about going off to slay dragons? Didn't you dream about being some kind of hero? "And as you grew up and realized that you probably wouldn't be slaying any dragons, real or metaphorical, didn't you get tired of just watching others do physical things? Didn't you get tired of only being involved in surrogate achievement, you know, living vicariously through the basketball players, the soccer players, the Italian bocce ball players, or whoever it is you admire? "Maybe you actually were involved in some organized sport, but if you're like most conventional athletes, you only used weight training as a means to an end. You wanted to be a better tight end or a better power forward, but once you stopped competing in your sport, you stopped weight lifting."
"But you gotta' understand, people like me never stop lifting weights. The part of us that wanted to slay the dragon? It didn't die. It won't. "We seek to constantly get better, to get the perfect body or set a personal record or just be prepared for all the physical challenges – the what ifs the cosmos dumps on us. "But we know deep down that the perfect body or ultimate personal record can never really be achieved, because our imagination always sets the goal a step or two or three ahead of what we've accomplished. And we also know that the universe is merciless enough to give us a few physical challenges that we won't be, can't be, prepared for. "So it's not the goal that's important, it's the journey. The journey's the thing. The journey's the reward."
The gym is our sweat lodge and if you don't think a good squat or deadlift workout is purifying, then there are no suitable words to convince you otherwise; you have to experience it yourself. And I tell you, a good workout – no, a great workout, one where you have nothing left and you're sweating and you haven't held back on one rep of one set – is spiritual."
"So I smash my demons. I crush them under the bar. And if I’m too fucked up to train heavy, I torch them with extended sets, rip them apart with rest pauses and drop sets, and then chase them away with whatever fucked-up finishing exercise I can think of. The demons always come back, mind you, but as long as I have a key to my gym I can stay one step ahead." - Dave Tate
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