don't blame the equipment

When I was in college, I wanted to become a film maker. Its all I wanted to do. And I stopped making movies because I had a shit camera from the time I was 16. It wasn't good enough to be taken seriously I would think. And even when I saved up enough to buy a massive upgrade, I moved the goalposts to a new and better camera.

Years later, I didn't leave the same lesson when it came to training equipment. My first purchase was a 20kg kettlebell. I thought, this is a good start, but I can't do anything amazing until I get a full barbell set. Jokes on me. If I put in serious chops with that bell, I could have accomplished great things. Hindsight and all that. 

I'm.not saying I don't appreciate my barbell. Or my rack. Or any of the other things I've accumulated over the past few years. But the more you move goalposts, the less you will accomplish with the tools at hand. People have always been able to make due without cutting edge anything. Idolizing a symbol at the mountain to climb is at best procrastination.