“I can’t climb those stairs! My legs will have “veins”!”


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So it was a long, long flight of stairs I saw in my dream …

And there was a young schoolboy in shorts (old style) and (while he wasnt fat at all), he wouldn’t ascend them stairs, instead opting to take the equally long (obviously) escalator to the side.

I still remember the way he looked at me when he said the above.

And I still remember the steel of the escalator handle …

It was that vivid, but while this dream was one of those “disjointed” ones which pops in and out, with random occurences all over the place, the point begets – and stands.

Lots of people are scared of working out hard because they’ll get the “veiny roid monster” look for one.

Maybe that is the case if you do what the booby builders at the gym do, pumping, toning and so forth until the “cows come home” as it were.

Cow is an apt metaphor here, because (and the C grade flick “English Dogs in Bangkok” actually had this part spot on) when those roids disappear – so do the muscles.

The man boobs and saggy veins do not, though …

Anyway, can be avoided if you train the right way.

I trained harder daily than most people do in a lifetime on occasion, and while I didnt go all out like that for long periods of times, i’d do it for months at a stretch.

I’d back off al ittle after that, but backing off a little for me is still a heck of a workout for most …

And I never ONCE had those nasty veins show up where I didnt want ’em – except on my forearms, where I DID want them.

But really, it’s funny.

And though I didnt write this down as I normally do in a dream diary, I still remember it right now. And I’ll say it.

When you see those long flights of stairs at the subway station (or when you used to, at any rate, pre – China plague) what was your first thought?

“Where are the escalators” most would think.

And there’s plenty of these at the border between Hong Kong and China for one. Stairs, escalators, both

And it’s only me, without exception that is seen climbing that MOUNTAIN every time I cross the border (either way) – usually with luggage in tow.

It’s called seeing – and getting workouts in when no-one else even “sees” the possibility first.

I mean, lets face it.

I usually get my workout in FIRST.

Climbing hills. Pushups. Pull-upsk. Whatever.

So you’d think I’d be DONE.

But no – every time I see a flight of stairs – or a hill – I just have to conquer it!

Reminded me of myself in the Middle East where there were no hills but plenty of those rocky “outcrops” everywhere.

I was getting my driving license (don’t ask – it was a farce – a man that had driving licenses virtually all over the world – yours truly – was forced to take “classes” from a nimrod that could barely shift a gear, let alone teach anyone how to drive …) and I asked the instructor “can I climb those”.

He looked at me as if I was crazy.

“Sure, but … “

Same thing when I did the “hair flying, laptop in tow” subway sprints wayyyyyyyyy back in the day in 2007 in India, for one. Or was that 2008. The year of the collapse of you know what, and damn near everything else.

Yea. 2008 I believe. But the memory sticks!

Yours truly sees workouts where no-one else does, and gets here done – daily – and nightly too, in his dreams.

So should YOU, my friend. Truly no other way to LIVE!

Beast (Best),

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – The “beast” came out naturally, hehe.

PS #2 – Here is where you can pick up a course that will strip off that nasty lard off your body as quickly as you can put it back on, and then some – Advanced Hill Training.

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