5/8/21
I walk to the pullup bar and run into a dude I know. He asks me if I’m jumping in with him on the trx, I say pullups, and he tells me the couple standing next to us, the woman had just done her first strict pullup, the four of us talk briefly about women and calisthenics, and the couple leaves.
The two of us there, at the pullup bar – he was telling me a few things :
•I need to train for strongman.
•I need to eat like a bodybuilder.
•I need to make it happen.
He’s probably 5’6″, 165, lean, (does flags, front levers, etc), is dumbfounded that I match him on pullups while being 100lbs heavier, and was stressing to me the above plus…
Telling me to have more ego in relation to my physicality, “dude you don’t have an accurate image of yourself – you could be 300lbs like nothing, you’re proportional – like me in leverages but scaled up, 260 banging out 20+ pullups, dudes your size don’t do that, especially when they’re not even ripped, will you go train for strongman”…
Telling me to stir fry chicken breast and white rice as meal prep.
(Aside : it’s my opinion that wheat builds you more robust in stature than rice.)
“Will you please eat like a bodybuilder, you’ll go from very big to like the same weight with abs…and train for strongman.”
(I fully agree with him that I could be 300lbs and “strongman lean”, as what was a lifetime goal of 275 with abs natty is entirely in my sights as realistic and close… TRAIN FOR A DECADE you’ll have serious potential “overnight”, the prerequisite is TRAIN FOR A DECADE.)
Meal Prep/Stir Fry :
He does so every morning at something like 445am before work, told me he has a thing about always getting up early, otherwise he thinks of himself as a bitch for sleeping in.
I asked him if he had come across Wes Watson.
He hadn’t, and I recommended a few videos. He was telling me to “try the Joe Rogan podcast…and train for strongman”.
When the two of us get to talking, having run into each other on the gym floor, interesting topics come out.
We’ve spoken before about living in the real world, not the digital.
We have a good vibe going, where positivity, and expectations of self improvement come out – bouncing off of each other.
He was telling me “next time, and from now on, I’m going to just always say to you ; will you train for strongman”.
Thanks dude.