Forged in iron’s primal fire, bronze arms, granite pectorals, heart inflamed with bravery, who turn the firmament of my being with celestial repetitions, who dispel the shadow of sloth and command the chaos of weakness, who kindle my courage and forge my destiny in sinew and sweat.

I, your devotee and disciple, raise my sacred chant and offer the dumbbell as tribute to your eternal glory. Hear me, O divinity of flesh and steel: banish torpor, grant me boundless vigor, make my body an altar of strength and a testament of discipline.

So be it, O mystery of muscles and miracles, so be it.