Hello everyone.
A couple years back, I made an arrangement with one of the largest Gold Gyms in the world to swap some professional photography services for a membership in a gym that normally I would simply not have been able to afford. Several others did that too, and it was in this gym of movie stars, CEO’s, vice presidents etc., that I met a massive but quiet unassuming gentleman who was studiously pretending to be a janitor.
The reticent quiet individual had at that time won dozens of body building awards and was continuing to win consistently even at that time.
The odd thing was that no one had ever seen him workout. I was working my magic with the camera there on a near daily basis and I saw him lift weights only when he was putting them back on their respective stands.
The talk even said that the body building janitor was on steroids and into illegal weight gain drugs. The more he won, is the strong the rumours grew. I was shooting ( with a camera ) many of the top models in the gym by then so I was more or less at the gym daily. It was easily four plus weeks before I thought I caught him working out one night.
I was elated with what I thought was a remarkable discovery. Basically news that I could use to refute the rumors, so I asked him for his secret.
“You are winning regional contests but rarely ever work out”, I began.
I thought he was going to give me the evil eye, and for sure my heart stuttered as I imagined he was going to get seriously angry. Instead he pointed at the sweat on the seat and coolly said, “Trevor, drugs particularly steroids are for fools, don’t believe the rumors”.
So, I waited patiently for him to tell me his story, but he just turned and went to pick up another stray weight on the rubber floor. It took me another month before I could corner him again on the topic.
Ahh ha, I thought as a month later I spied him in the middle of a preacher curl workout. In a rather nonchalant way, I unhurriedly, wandered over and by incredible coincidence happened to be right there in front of him as his reps were finished. To my surprise, without pausing he continued the conversation from the month before.
Seeing that he was a little more talkative than before, I again asked him what was his secret.
What he said then was quite extraordinary – He quietly revealed that he monitors his heart beat both at rest and at play. After some time, he knows exactly what his heart rate should be when his body is at complete rest ( explained as not rebuilding muscle ) He said most people work a different set of muscle groups daily, but that his difference was based on more.
He continued that the real pivotal difference was simply the exact time period or signal used to start working out again.
He told me that he knows his heart rate when its at rest and that after a really heavy workout the muscle fibers are damaged and need to be rebuilt. None of that is rocket science, we all pretty well know that. However, what was different is that in his case, he won’t start working out any body part at all until his heart rate is once more ‘at rest’ again. This could be several days or even a week, but he won’t work out again until then.
And this is how this quiet unassuming janitor wins regional tournament after tournament and places high on the Asian body building charts while the rest of the guys scratch their heads and wonder when or how he trains.
If you are not a body builder and haven’t left a few gallons of sweat in a local gym already this story is probably a total non-event. The “No pain no gain” mantra might have been one of those cutesy phrases that you have merely heard. The real point being made here is so many of us who exercise and have been doing it for years can get so sure that we know, we absolutely know the right way to do a particular thing. So, ohhhhhh no, we are not going to change what we are doing.
So, we have all seen the tunnel visioned friend who is working hard at doing exactly the same thing he has been doing all along and hoping, yes even praying that his future plans which contain more of the same old methodologies will finally bring him that much needed change. Oops, would that be too much to expect?
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