As unlikely as that may sound, it really did happen, I was there.
Several years ago, I traded some time and talent as a professional camera man for a Golds Gym membership that I would have had trouble affording otherwise. This particular Gold's gym had as many CEO's, Diva's and paparazzi as it had real weight lifting members. It was here that I met a massive gentleman whom like myself who was working there in order to get the opportunity to be near this fabulous gym, its new equipment and the fantastic talent that was there all the time.
This rather large but quiet gentleman had the ability to move silently and quite invisibly around the gym. You never noticed him until an errant weight left to long on the floor suddenly wasn't there anymore. Solid rumours indicated that the gentleman was highly consistent in winning regional and even national body building awards.
Nothing too surprising there, except the other gym patrons swore that he never worked out. Some speculated that he worked out at another gym, others said that if they were moving weights around all day they would be winning too -- but truth is, the rest of us were moving weights around all day and we were certainly not 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 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, "drugs particularly steroids were for fools, don't believe the rumours".
This seemed like the opening I was waiting for so I watched him expectantly, thinking that he was about to let me know what was going on. In vain, apparently since he left that space with a spare weight in his hand. It was pretty well a month later before I could get his attention 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.
This time I pestered him to tell me his secret. I even intimated that he waited until we had all left the gym before training hard just like the rest of us. Again, he laughed gently and this time he said "Ok, I will tell you"
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.
Quietly, he then revealed that the difference was in the workout interval.
This athlete knows his 'At rest' heart rate. After a strenuous workout his heart rate goes up and stays up even as torn muscle is being rebuilt. He says if it takes days for the heart rate to normalize, then so be it. He won't even work out another body part until the heart rate is back 'At rest'
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.
Perhaps if you are doing the same thing you have always been doing and planning on doing more of that "same thing", the change that you are looking for is simply never going to happen. A real change in results, most times requires a real change in the methodology.
Several years ago, I traded some time and talent as a professional camera man for a Golds Gym membership that I would have had trouble affording otherwise. This particular Gold's gym had as many CEO's, Diva's and paparazzi as it had real weight lifting members. It was here that I met a massive gentleman whom like myself who was working there in order to get the opportunity to be near this fabulous gym, its new equipment and the fantastic talent that was there all the time.
This rather large but quiet gentleman had the ability to move silently and quite invisibly around the gym. You never noticed him until an errant weight left to long on the floor suddenly wasn't there anymore. Solid rumours indicated that the gentleman was highly consistent in winning regional and even national body building awards.
Nothing too surprising there, except the other gym patrons swore that he never worked out. Some speculated that he worked out at another gym, others said that if they were moving weights around all day they would be winning too -- but truth is, the rest of us were moving weights around all day and we were certainly not 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 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, "drugs particularly steroids were for fools, don't believe the rumours".
This seemed like the opening I was waiting for so I watched him expectantly, thinking that he was about to let me know what was going on. In vain, apparently since he left that space with a spare weight in his hand. It was pretty well a month later before I could get his attention 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.
This time I pestered him to tell me his secret. I even intimated that he waited until we had all left the gym before training hard just like the rest of us. Again, he laughed gently and this time he said "Ok, I will tell you"
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.
Quietly, he then revealed that the difference was in the workout interval.
This athlete knows his 'At rest' heart rate. After a strenuous workout his heart rate goes up and stays up even as torn muscle is being rebuilt. He says if it takes days for the heart rate to normalize, then so be it. He won't even work out another body part until the heart rate is back 'At rest'
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.
Perhaps if you are doing the same thing you have always been doing and planning on doing more of that "same thing", the change that you are looking for is simply never going to happen. A real change in results, most times requires a real change in the methodology.
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