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Gazing at the machine the way other men might look upon a loved one’s bed, Rollins tells me that lifting weights means more to him than simply keeping fit. “It is a total metaphor for life. If you hit it hard, it gives back to you. You give it 100 percent and you’re built like a brick shithouse; you cheat and you break your back. Three hundred pounds does not care if it crushes your head or if you put it back on the hooks. I don’t think you get a better deal in life. Women leave you, money gets stolen, 300 pounds just sits on that bar, saying, ‘Lift me or don’t.’
Henry Rollins on lifting weights
