As unlikely as that may sound, it really did happen, I was there.
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.
The reticent quiet individual had at that time won dozens of body building awards and was continuing to win consistently even at that time.
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.
There was a buzz around the gym that he was on steroids or taking some kind of drugs and quite honestly, I have to say that it really did take me more than a few weeks to even catch him lifting weights late 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.
I blurted before my brain had a chance to properly catch up to my tongue, "How do you win all these contests if this is the only time I have ever seen you work out?"
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.
This time, I found him studiously doing a preacher curl with one arm as he examined the striated muscle group. As he finished, I went to him and exclaimed ha ha, so you do lift after all. He looked at me oddly, and as if continuing the conversation from a month earlier, he said, I never claimed not to.
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.
Without fanfare, he simply said, the difference was the interval between working out.
He works out, monitors his heart rate and never works out again until his heart rate is back at "rest mode". If that takes 2 days or 3 or 4 he doesn't care. He simply waits. When his heart rate is back at "rest", he intensely works out a different muscle set.
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.
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.
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. - 14915
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.
The reticent quiet individual had at that time won dozens of body building awards and was continuing to win consistently even at that time.
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.
There was a buzz around the gym that he was on steroids or taking some kind of drugs and quite honestly, I have to say that it really did take me more than a few weeks to even catch him lifting weights late 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.
I blurted before my brain had a chance to properly catch up to my tongue, "How do you win all these contests if this is the only time I have ever seen you work out?"
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.
This time, I found him studiously doing a preacher curl with one arm as he examined the striated muscle group. As he finished, I went to him and exclaimed ha ha, so you do lift after all. He looked at me oddly, and as if continuing the conversation from a month earlier, he said, I never claimed not to.
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.
Without fanfare, he simply said, the difference was the interval between working out.
He works out, monitors his heart rate and never works out again until his heart rate is back at "rest mode". If that takes 2 days or 3 or 4 he doesn't care. He simply waits. When his heart rate is back at "rest", he intensely works out a different muscle set.
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.
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.
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. - 14915
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