Does every person @ getbig have their own personal, metaphorical "1980 Olympia"?

[Royalty]

Metaphor: "1980 Olympia" as experienced Mike Mentzer = an event (crisis) in your life where your expectations were crushed and your efforts were seemingly wasted.

Im guessing yes. We all have had or will have an event like that. The way that you respond to a crisis reveals your true strength.

Mentzer caved. He crumbled. He did not bounce back.

I find it odd that he was obsessed with "recovering" from the damaging effects of intense training. But yet he was unable to "recover" from his crisis in '80. He spent the next 20 years talking about "recovery", but deep down he was unable to "recover" (grow). He was unable to do the one thing that he was obsessed with: recover.

It's very ironic.

 

  

[snx]

Thank you for understanding how and when one can truly apply the term "irony" to a situation. Nicely done.

[The Ugly]

Thank you for understanding how and when one can truly apply the term "irony" to a situation. Nicely done.

Walker's car crash, right?

Coincidental, not ironic.

[Hulkotron]

A peak John Falcon would have finished no lower than 2nd place in this war.

[Big Chiro Flex]

I persevered and overcame a massive 5 second long fart followed by a bowel movement this morning.

[The True Adonis]

All the Federales could have had me any day, but they let me slip away, out of kindness  I suppose...