Lift Heavy Run Long Podcast - Inspire. Be Inspired.

Beefcake #12 Every holiday, it never fails. At some point, someone has to say it, "everybody gather round, let's get a picture". Soooooooo, everyone gets up from their comfortable position, crams awkwardly up against one another, and waits. "Whoops, we are going to need a camera". After a brief intermission, a family member returns from the bedroom with the camera, which has not been used since the last family gathering. "Oh crappit, the battery is dead. Everyone relax for a second, but don't go anywhere." No one has ever left the scene of the family picture, because we all know that it would mean certain death. "Here we go, everyone get ready. Say cheese....". No flash. No click. I am in a room full of the most intelligent and educated women in west Tennessee, and not one of them can figure out how to work the camera. The same camera that they couldn't work the last holiday, and the one before that, and so on and so forth. My back is sweating. I was frustrated at the act of taking the picture from the wor