Hello everyone.
A few years ago when I was the photographer at what was then one of the largest gold gyms in asia if not the world, I had the pleasure of meeting a massive gentleman who worked in the capacity of a janitor at Golds Gym.
As massive as he was, this gentleman had a way of pulling his aura in real close, so unless you bumped into him, most times you even wouldn't notice he was even there. But he was the talk of the gym because he was consistently winning regional body building awards.
Weirdly enough, none of the other guys in the gym could remember this so called janitor ever having a strenuous workout. Sure, he was moving weights around the gym all the time, but all of us were doing that and wonders of wonders none of the rest of us were winning anything.
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 couldn't help myself, so I thought to query him as to how he managed to win, win, win and yet this was the first time I had ever seen him just finishing a workout.
"How can you continue to win regional and even place nationally in such a consistent manner if you don't lift weights?, I blurted out
I got a weird look from him and he asked why I mistakenly thought that he never worked out. I kind of stuttered and said that his lack of any visible workout routine were fueling rumours around the gym about steroid and drug use. Without blinking an eyelid, he coolly said, "Drugs don't build muscle and that at best some very few drugs might enhance the duration of the workout."
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.
On that occasion, he wasn't simply finishing a set, he was in the middle of a strenuous one armed preacher curl. Gathering my lagging courage, i approached him and waited. When he had finished his set, in an odd kind of time bending way he continued the conversation of a month before without even saying hello.
Seeing that he was a little more talkative than before, I again asked him what was his secret.
The story him told me then was simplicity itself. He revealed that his training was based on his resting heart rate. So while others concentrated on working different body parts on different days or alternate days that his was based on this one major difference. I stood there a little shell shocked and waited for more.
Quietly, he then revealed that the difference was in the workout interval.
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 at the time i left that beautiful part of Asia, this reluctant weightlifter continued to win Asian regional awards in a fairly consistent manner. He was placing in the top 3 nationally and outright winning most regional events that he entered.
Ahhh, I hear some of you saying this is a non-story because you have yet to leave a few gallons of sweat on a weight bench and perhaps more promises will be made after thanksgiving and Christmas dinner about getting to the Gym some time. But the point here, is really not about the weight lifting ( or lack thereof so don't sweat that ) but more that too many times, so many of us "professionals" can be oh so sure that there is only one way to "skin the cat". And that one way, or for some "My way or the highway" leaves us battling for change that is more than simply elusive.
Are you are yearning for change but planning on doing more of the same thing that got you to this point? Would it be kind of us to assume that perhaps that change that you are looking forward to, simply isn't going to happen while you are continuing to do more "of the same"? - 15478
A few years ago when I was the photographer at what was then one of the largest gold gyms in asia if not the world, I had the pleasure of meeting a massive gentleman who worked in the capacity of a janitor at Golds Gym.
As massive as he was, this gentleman had a way of pulling his aura in real close, so unless you bumped into him, most times you even wouldn't notice he was even there. But he was the talk of the gym because he was consistently winning regional body building awards.
Weirdly enough, none of the other guys in the gym could remember this so called janitor ever having a strenuous workout. Sure, he was moving weights around the gym all the time, but all of us were doing that and wonders of wonders none of the rest of us were winning anything.
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 couldn't help myself, so I thought to query him as to how he managed to win, win, win and yet this was the first time I had ever seen him just finishing a workout.
"How can you continue to win regional and even place nationally in such a consistent manner if you don't lift weights?, I blurted out
I got a weird look from him and he asked why I mistakenly thought that he never worked out. I kind of stuttered and said that his lack of any visible workout routine were fueling rumours around the gym about steroid and drug use. Without blinking an eyelid, he coolly said, "Drugs don't build muscle and that at best some very few drugs might enhance the duration of the workout."
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.
On that occasion, he wasn't simply finishing a set, he was in the middle of a strenuous one armed preacher curl. Gathering my lagging courage, i approached him and waited. When he had finished his set, in an odd kind of time bending way he continued the conversation of a month before without even saying hello.
Seeing that he was a little more talkative than before, I again asked him what was his secret.
The story him told me then was simplicity itself. He revealed that his training was based on his resting heart rate. So while others concentrated on working different body parts on different days or alternate days that his was based on this one major difference. I stood there a little shell shocked and waited for more.
Quietly, he then revealed that the difference was in the workout interval.
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 at the time i left that beautiful part of Asia, this reluctant weightlifter continued to win Asian regional awards in a fairly consistent manner. He was placing in the top 3 nationally and outright winning most regional events that he entered.
Ahhh, I hear some of you saying this is a non-story because you have yet to leave a few gallons of sweat on a weight bench and perhaps more promises will be made after thanksgiving and Christmas dinner about getting to the Gym some time. But the point here, is really not about the weight lifting ( or lack thereof so don't sweat that ) but more that too many times, so many of us "professionals" can be oh so sure that there is only one way to "skin the cat". And that one way, or for some "My way or the highway" leaves us battling for change that is more than simply elusive.
Are you are yearning for change but planning on doing more of the same thing that got you to this point? Would it be kind of us to assume that perhaps that change that you are looking forward to, simply isn't going to happen while you are continuing to do more "of the same"? - 15478
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