I haven’t left my house in 10 days and today while on the treadmill I had an interesting thought. This thought came to me while watching one of my favorite training videos. I like watching a certain training montage while on the incline portion of my run. Any idea? It’s the training montage from the movie Rocky IV (1985) Fantastic movie!!!!! If you haven’t watched it, please do while on this quarantine time.
Movie description below;
After reclaiming the boxing championship title, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) plans to retire and live with his wife, Adrian (Talia Shire). However, during an exhibition match, Rocky's friend Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) is mercilessly beaten to death by hulking Russian newcomer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). Rocky vows payback against Drago and flies to Russia to train for a Christmas Day fight. Despite their different training methods, Rocky and Drago both wage a long and intense match.
The interesting thought has to do with the comparisons I made of us here in The USA being represented by Rocky and COVID-19 being represented by Drago. The struggles that we are all going through is our training for the big fight against COVID-19. The struggles and hardships are teaching us and making us stronger for the future. Facing the current unseen enemy is revealing our seen weaknesses. Not to ruin the movie but in the end Rocky finally takes down Drago in the last round, winning by knockout to shock the world. The United Stated of America will prevail.
We will get through these challenging and difficult times, Head up, Eyes Forward!!!
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