What are you celebrating now
You haven’t finished it yet
All you’ve done is get close
Be proud when you’re done
Pride right now doesn’t serve you
It’ll just make you feel good
The thing is you don’t feel good
Your hands feel like they’re ripping
Every time you hold the bar it hurts
You still have more pain to do
You’re not done, stop acting like it
Finish what you came out here for
When you go home you got more
You got extra to do
That is what we deserve now
This pain will be our teacher
To remind us when future pain comes
That pain is not a barrier
It’s a price to pay for entry
This isn’t the finish line. It’s just the moment before the final rep, the last push, the part where people start looking for reasons to slow down. But not you. You haven’t earned pride yet. Right now, you’re still in the fire, and letting yourself feel good too early only dulls the edge. This isn’t about comfort—it’s about completion. About showing that you don’t flinch when the bar bites into your hands or when the ache becomes the loudest thing in the room.
Pain isn’t the enemy—it’s the cost. And the deeper you feel it now, the more useful it’ll be later. Because when the next challenge comes, when life throws weight back on your shoulders, you’ll remember this. You’ll remember that pain isn’t a wall—it’s a tollbooth. You don’t avoid it. You pay it. And then you keep going. You’re not training just to get stronger—you’re training to stop being surprised by pain. To know it. To walk through it like it’s familiar ground.
So don’t slow down now. Don’t honor the hurt by stopping. Finish what you started. Finish it for the version of you that used to break under pressure. Finish it because the work isn’t done until it teaches you something. That’s why you’re still out here. And when you get home? You keep going. Because your standard isn’t “good enough” anymore—it’s “all the way.” Every rep past your limit is a line in your story written in pain and sealed by discipline.
