The Deadlift

The tension builds, you can hear iron clanking, men and Women grunting, people yelling and clapping from afar. There is a smell of sweat, cold iron and fear in the air. There is a white cloud of dust that fills the room, You can hear the faint sound of different music coming from many headphones. People of all shapes and sizes are behind a curtain psyching each other up to get ready for this amazing test of strength known as the DEAD LIFT.

Now the time has come, the announcer calls your name and states “the bar is loaded”. As I step from behind the curtain, all emotions have left my body, I stand still in front of the platform . There is a erie  silence that has fallen over the whole place, where the crowd once stood is now empty. The only thing I can see is a weighted bar on the platform. As I step to the bar, hands covered in chalk, adrenaline is pumping through my veins, I realize I must defy gravity for at least three seconds in order to get the two white lights I so desperately long for on the DEADLIFT.

As I reach down and wrap my hands around the iron that is so unforgiving, I know in my mind that I have trained for this and it is my turn to defy gravity. I get set tensing every muscle in my body, the blood has engorged my muscles and they feel as if they are going to pop out of my skin. There is no better feeling than this! As I pull the weight up from the floor, the bar cutting into my hand, I pass my shins, then my thighs as I stand tall and fully erect, a smile emerges from my face for I know that I have just completed the amzing test of strength known as the Deadlift!

Darell Dansby

I jotted this down on 12-3-11 let me know what you think.