Freakshowelite
03-25-13, 1:12 pm
On Saturday March 23rd a group of powerlifters and powerlifting enthusiasts came together to do something amazing. Something that gives our sport meaning, and gives us a chance to use our talents and skills to benefit others.
HopeKids:
Hopekids is a charity foundation based out of Minnesota, Arizona, and one other state I cannot remember. HK is much like the Make-A-Wish foundation in that it works with terminally ill children. HK provides events and entertainment for the children and their families. It gives them something positive to put on their calanders. Instead of looking at May and seeing:
Monday-Chemo
Wed-Blood work
Thur-Physical therapy
Sat-Surgery
etc.....
Having a child that you don't know if they will be around for their next birthday is gut wrenching enough. But knowing that, and having to look on your calander every week and see all all that negative bogs you down even worse. Its very easy to be negative. HK mission lies in the name itself, to give Hope. They add events to the calander like:
Saturday: Movie day
Sunday: Trip to watch the Vikings
Monday: Trip to watch the Twins
Tues: Dinner at their favorite resturaunt.
etc....
It adds hope to the calander. If they can, just for a moment, give the families something other than gloom to think about then their mission is complete. Because we all know, if you give up mentally its really hard to keep up physically. The body can defy even modern medicine and technology if the mind is strong. This is what HK is all about.
Scott Nutter, Mike Hamilton, Garth Heckman, and Mike Gray had a dream, a vision. How can we use our strengths and passions to benefit others? Relentless 2013 was the third year of Relentless, and the second year with HopeKids. Their goal was to raise 15k for HK, that would be monumental for a bunch of meatheads. Boy did they underestimate!
HK is associated with professional athletes and organizations. People, and companies that could easily pull together hundreds of thousands of dollars with their individual salaries alone. The highest fundraising event in HK history was 83,000 dollars(give or take).
Powerlifters have no money, theres no fame, no big contracts, its a labor of love. No one makes money powerlifting, or off powerlifting. We do what we do because we love it. It baffles my mind how a bunch of ordinary people, with no huge contracts or fame could ever hope to top that mark of 83k. On Saturday March 23rd we destroyed that mark! At the end of the day the total was 102,000 dollars. But that doesn't count all the lifters that had per pound sponsors. With those added in we will easily go over 110,000 dollars. That is what I absolutely love about this sport. The people involved are legit, honest, and sincere people.
So I ask you, what can you say about powerlifters?
HopeKids:
Hopekids is a charity foundation based out of Minnesota, Arizona, and one other state I cannot remember. HK is much like the Make-A-Wish foundation in that it works with terminally ill children. HK provides events and entertainment for the children and their families. It gives them something positive to put on their calanders. Instead of looking at May and seeing:
Monday-Chemo
Wed-Blood work
Thur-Physical therapy
Sat-Surgery
etc.....
Having a child that you don't know if they will be around for their next birthday is gut wrenching enough. But knowing that, and having to look on your calander every week and see all all that negative bogs you down even worse. Its very easy to be negative. HK mission lies in the name itself, to give Hope. They add events to the calander like:
Saturday: Movie day
Sunday: Trip to watch the Vikings
Monday: Trip to watch the Twins
Tues: Dinner at their favorite resturaunt.
etc....
It adds hope to the calander. If they can, just for a moment, give the families something other than gloom to think about then their mission is complete. Because we all know, if you give up mentally its really hard to keep up physically. The body can defy even modern medicine and technology if the mind is strong. This is what HK is all about.
Scott Nutter, Mike Hamilton, Garth Heckman, and Mike Gray had a dream, a vision. How can we use our strengths and passions to benefit others? Relentless 2013 was the third year of Relentless, and the second year with HopeKids. Their goal was to raise 15k for HK, that would be monumental for a bunch of meatheads. Boy did they underestimate!
HK is associated with professional athletes and organizations. People, and companies that could easily pull together hundreds of thousands of dollars with their individual salaries alone. The highest fundraising event in HK history was 83,000 dollars(give or take).
Powerlifters have no money, theres no fame, no big contracts, its a labor of love. No one makes money powerlifting, or off powerlifting. We do what we do because we love it. It baffles my mind how a bunch of ordinary people, with no huge contracts or fame could ever hope to top that mark of 83k. On Saturday March 23rd we destroyed that mark! At the end of the day the total was 102,000 dollars. But that doesn't count all the lifters that had per pound sponsors. With those added in we will easily go over 110,000 dollars. That is what I absolutely love about this sport. The people involved are legit, honest, and sincere people.
So I ask you, what can you say about powerlifters?