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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?"
He looked at me oddly and asked me why I thought he never worked out. I told him about the rumours that he might be on muscle building drugs or steroids etc. He laughed quietly and remarked, quite truthfully that drugs don't build muscles they only help one to work out more strenuously.
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.
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.
Without fanfare, he simply said, the difference was the interval between working out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?"
He looked at me oddly and asked me why I thought he never worked out. I told him about the rumours that he might be on muscle building drugs or steroids etc. He laughed quietly and remarked, quite truthfully that drugs don't build muscles they only help one to work out more strenuously.
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.
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.
Without fanfare, he simply said, the difference was the interval between working out.
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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