Ready, Shoot........Aim

[Keith Wassung]

I have been getting several PM

 

[bacon]

Thought this was going to be another Dick Chaney hunting joke. Good read Keith, always a pleasure.

 

[graedy]

Yap. I somehow miss the time before I got involved with all the lifting info. The only exercises I knew were bench press, bench pull, pull ups, push downs, upricht rows, curls, leg press, V-sit ups, lateral raises and bo-laterals. Thats a strange mixture I know. I also only knew rep ranges from 10-12 or 25-30 and figured out myself that its best to mix it up from time to time to make progress. I never trained in a public gym. But still sometimes people that trained as well would come up with some advice from some magazines and stuff like that. I ignored them because I was just better than they were and I prefered to play arround with the weights with my friends to find new exercises and new ways of exercising on our own.
On the other side I dont think that we would have invented something like apowerclean on our own ;D.

 

[Waxwingslain]

This is so true for me. My friend is much busier than me and he still gets way more done than I do.

 

[oyaji poi]

it's interesting and inspiring in a way, to hear a guy like Keith Wassung talk about how he didn't train that hard. And the reasons were the same as anyone else, free time and a bit of lazyness and forgetfullness. I found the same thing though, I did much better at school when I worked semi-full time. It broke my day up into time slots. 2 hours for class, 5 hours at work, 3 hours to study because there won't be anymore time to study because of work and class again. Usually people who have achieved alot in their field will never really admit to not working hard.

 

[Sinister]

As it relates to Boxing and fight sports, keep in-mind that there's always excuses. Every time a fighter has a poor outing fans do one of two things. They either make every excuse in the book for said fighter, or they become entirely dismissive of said fighter and deem he must not have been anything special to begin with (if anyone says to me that Arlovski has a glass chin in-person I'm decking them without second-thjought).

This is hardly ever the case, either end of the spectrum. Nine times out of ten said fighter is just a man. Just a human being going through the same shit as anyone else that distracts from training and goals. Now it's true there's no excuse for this, but one would think "fans" or other "fighters" would have some sort of understanding and rarely ever is this the case. So next time you see someone you admire not doing what you wish they would, keep in-mind the multitude of things that might be going on in their lives that keep you from being what you think they OUGHT to be.

 

[CelebritySexist]

Good article, Keith, but I can't help but get the impression that the hidden message is one of "leave me alone you bloody kids and find out for yourselves!" :icon_chee

Joke!