Janitor Reluctantly Wins Regional Weight Lifting Title - Again!
Hello everyone.
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.
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.
It seemed that the more he DIDN'T work out was the more he won. I shouldn't say it was natural for the talk to move in this direction, but human nature being what it is, it wasn't long before people ( mostly guys ) had had it up to their ears with this janitor who was continuing to win body building awards without working out. The talk about illegal drugs and this guy's name were starting to make the rounds. It took more than a month before I actually found him in a position that looked like he had just been lifting weights.
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, "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.
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, Trevor, persistent you are, so I will tell you"
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.
He continued that the real pivotal difference was simply the exact time period or signal used to start working out again.
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 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.
So what? Was this just another jock story of Cinderella being found by Hollywood producers? or is there some deeper thread hiding in here somewhere? Truly the morale of the story was not really not about the weight lifting ( or lack thereof so don't sweat that ). It is really about how through learned tunnel vision we can sometimes forget that there can be more than one way to "skin the cat".
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.
by: Trevor Weir.
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