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Fitness Champion
....it was the best of times; it was the worst of times
It was the year 2001 in Italy.... I got into a motorcycle accident. I broke my arm and my clavicle bone, maybe even a few ribs. I was already a professional athlete and had won many competitions in martial arts, arm wrestling, swimming and other different disciplines. After the accident, the doctors said I would not be able to compete again.
I felt like the world was crushing me. It was a very hard time for me...Even my girlfriend couldn't take the pressure and left.... And all was lost....It was the worst of times.
At that point I went into a different mode and I knew I had to get up and start over from zero. So I began to do therapy on myself, healing myself and began training again. All I focused on was training and preparing myself to be stronger than before. Four months later I was completely healed and in amazing shape. No one could believe the way I looked. It helped a lot being a nutritionist so that I could use nutrition to heal better and make myself stronger again. Martial arts helped me a lot to be constantly focused and to be disciplined to go through big psychological and physical sacrifices, the hard training and dieting. All that mattered was to stand up again and prove to myself that I could be better than ever.
I qualified for the southern Italian fitness championships and won them, qualifying to the next level, the Italian fitness championships. Two months later I won the Italian championships becoming the Italian Fitness Champion. I even got my girl back. The following year, I participated again, winning for the second time the Fitness Championship and the Body Building Open Championship for the first time. That night was the night of champions. It was the best of times.
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| |  | My brother was a semi-professional body builder for years. The dieting, the hours spent every day at the gym, the physical, emotional, and psychological strain- It amazes me. Congratulations and best of luck to you.
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Comment by: MaryJayne @ 07/24/2007, 11:33:45 AM | This is my brother...I don't speak English so much but I can say that He really is the number one!!!!!!!!!!! A big kiss
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Comment by: Vivv @ 07/24/2007, 04:15:52 PM | To suggest that pain might have a purpose in our lives is no way to romanticize it.`He jests at scars that never felt a wound,`Shakespeare warns us.Pain is a howling,screaming demon.It is bones broken ,skin flayed, insides eaten away.It is an incubuus,feeding on what is good,corrupting what was once unadulterated flesh.Anyone who has seen a loved one wasting away on the white sheets of a hospital bed has had to shed any illusions about a painless transcending of pain.The Filipino worshpers who annually have themselves nailed to a cross,the Eastern gurus who sleep and make a maudlin mockery of the suffering we cannot evade.`All losses are painful,`the playwright Neil Simon once remarked .`After a while you forget what the loss is even about-it`s just a loss.`Indeed,it is this very trap that misfortune challenges
us to hurdle.When,instead of releasing the power of our natural instinct,we rely solely on our instinct to survive and to control, we may briefly find victory, but we will never find peace.I remember one freind who , before she turned to her powerful spirit , tried to defeat her breast cancer witha furious declaration of war .She was angry and she wanted that lump to know it.One morning she launched into a tirade against her cancer that went on and on,building in intensity until she shouted,`I`m going to beat this thing even if it kills me!`And, at that, we looked at each other struck by the strangeness of her words .She hadn`t known what she was saying-and ,as her out burst made clear ,she didn`t know what she was doing .If we wrestle our pain to the ground,if we try to pinion it down, we will have to remain there with it.The idea of beauty is to how to cure pain to survive.
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Comment by: tamerosman @ 07/29/2007, 03:15:40 AM | In death ,pain ends;in life , it has its way with uis .In fact,it sometimes takes more courage to face life than to confront death.Pain is not a pleasant teacher and suffering is not a thread we would ever willingly choose. Yet life thrusts the thread of pain into our hands, and even though our hands and our hearts may still ache,when we look back we may see how far this thread has brought us and how much we have learned along the way.The sense of light,of illumination , is at the heart of many near-death experiences -and the sense that there is nothing to defend, that when you are falling back , you are going to be held ,that there is safety in surrender .I remember the prepartions of the pregnancy of my cousin.How strange to .I thought to myself one day , to spend hour upon hour learning hoe to bring life , but hardly a
minute learning how to leave it.That is uncomfortable matter that modern man would rather not try tlo answer, or even ask.In our culture that shivers at the implications of death, we require quiet in our waiting rooms ,a stillness laden with anxiety and fear.There is a question that dawns to my mind ;how can one imagine that people could feel moments of happiness and see an aspect of beauty while suffering from pain?
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Comment by: tamerosman @ 07/29/2007, 03:21:03 AM | 'Glory is fleeting,'write Napoleon ,'but obscurity is forever.'And we definetly don't want forever.However fickle a lover it may be ,we want celebrity.Fame Headlines .Cheering crowds and thundering ovations.If only our names could be in lights along the Great White Way, and spelled correctly ,then we would be satisfied .Celebrity will fulfill our cavernous longing.Or so we have been to attain it .In our culture, fame is advertised as both a subsitute for immortality and the means by which to attain it.In an age of doubt and uncertainty ,celebrity bestows existence.'You think I am ,therefore I am.''Fame is a narcotic,'fashion designer Bill
Blass once said .'Once you are hooked on it, you are hooked for life.'Like other narcotics,this one induces its own stream of illusions .When supply meets demand,the need to be worshiped meets the longing to worship and celebrities are both created and create themselves.They are the best exemplery of films and fashion ,books and baseball,camp and capitalism.There they sit ,demigods on the top of the Egyptian Pyramids.Is it available for everybody to discover beauty in every aspect of glory and its concrete shapes?
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Comment by: tamerosman @ 07/29/2007, 03:26:25 AM | Inevitably and irrevocably,life sends suffering our way.How we bear up-whether we are left redeemed or resentful-brings meaning to our suffering and reveals the mettle of our souls.To be open to the grace of pain is not to underestimate the gravity of what is thrust upon us.But just as a kite may rise higher against a strong wind,so may we be lifted higher -as though when we are buffeted by the turbulence of life,God is reeling us back to Himself.To embrace our own suffering as a thread thrust into our hands ,the wounds through which we are healed , is the greatest challenge .But what,we demand to know,are we to make of random violence,raped innocence,babies thrown behind barbed wire?'If the suffering of children,'Ivan cries out in Dostoyevsky's 'Brothers Karamazov','serves to complete the sum of suffering necessary for the acquistion of truth,I affirm from now onward that truth is not worth such a price .I would persist in my indignation even if I were wrong.'How can anyone impose aspects of beauty to change the moments of misery and sufferance into positive moments?
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