“I will be training hard for as long as I still have breath in my body, training hard is how you know you’re “alive” without that feeling a man cannot truly call himself a man!!!”

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True quote the above, and what John Walker, a great, great customer of mine recently had to say to me w.r.t a conversation we were having in response to one of my emails “The pot of GOLD at the end of the RAINBOW”.

“I will be training hard for as long as I still have breath in my body, training hard is how you know you’re “alive” without that feeling a man cannot truly call himself a man!!!”

I believe that was it, yes. (both the quote and the email)

And we were talking future potential purchases for some part, but TRAINING for the most part!

Animal Kingdom Workouts in particular which he wants to compare to the workouts in Pushup Central (which Charles Mitchell, another great guy that GETS IT described as being “fu***** hard as hell!” especially some of the fingertip variants that he had never ever seen before!) . . . and thats why (and I believe I SAID this in an email too) I love this guy – he GETS it – and he IMPLEMENTS the information in the books!

Charles – do write back and tell me how you’re getting along with them fingertip pushups, hehe.

I Cannot tell how much nuts like “Keith James” annoy me and make me laugh when all they do is look at price and pictures. (Mamma Mai guy too).

Mai. Michael. English names, and Chinese … hehe. A girl actually calls me “Mai” for whateve rreason!

Anyway, that aside (no girls when we’re talking training, hehe, it doesn’t work!) . . . yeah. The Italian dude who bitched up a storm due to the same reason.

Can we say IDIOT with a capital I.

As Rod Steiger said in the Specialist in his inimitable manner.

“Idiota!” (that was spanish, yes, but being Spain and Italy are similar in many regards …)

Anyway, John emaile dme back today, and we (are) had a great convo. Here it is – and I believe YOU, the reader, can pick up plenty of VERY USEFUL tips from this convo alone – –

Hey Rahul

It’s great to hear from you too my friend, I do read some of the other stuff you write but I have to admit a lot of it goes straight over my head because clearly you’re writing about things/events that I have no knowledge of.

My wife is a lot better but she’s not quite fine just yet as she’s still suffering some after effects of the WU(HAN)FLU.

Getting back to talking about training as it’s what I have most experience of, I train alone but that is not exactly through a conscious choice on my part but it rather stems from peoples totally unrealistic expectations of what real training is.

I’ve lost count of how many times (after I’ve picked myself up off the floor) I’ve had to explain to people who wanted to train but who did not want to get TOO BIG!!!

As I pointed out to them even if you wanted to get big unless you’re prepared to work your arse off the chances of you getting big let alone getting “too big” are zero.

It amazes me how many people just seem to think all you have to do is do a bit of exercise and boom you just explode into growth.

The most common reason my training partners give up is because they like the idea of working out and the thought of displaying the results of their labours, however, it’s the labour part of the equation that they never really come to terms with and once they learn that you actually have to put in the work before you get the results they just fall by the wayside.

I’ve had grown men tell me that they can’t train with me today because they’re still a little stiff/sore from the last workout, when I tell them that’s how a man’s body is supposed to feel, they look at me like I’ve got two heads.

Just picture this for a moment and you’ll understand why we are the mentally/physically weakest humans that have ever walked this planet.

Sorry boy’s I can’t come hunting with you today as my legs have not recovered from chasing after that antelope yesterday and I’ll just have sit with my feet up today until the stiffness/soreness in my legs subsides enough to allow me to function again, now where did I leave those painkillers???

Warmest Regards

John.

Quoting from a previous email of his

Thank you again for your extremely kind though “unwarranted words”, (my thoughts on this are already known to you) I’m not in any way anything special.

I’m just an ordinary bloke who appreciates what excellent material you produce and it is you that deserves all the accolades and praise not I.

(in response to praising him, his training, and his ATTITUDE in general. A go getter at an age most men would give up LONG ago…)

Yours truly –

Hey John –

Thanks for the email! Hell yes, that is a damn good analogy! Matt Furey I think back in the day used something similar to explain this but youre right – animals in the wild don’t take “days off” and dont train “body parts separately” on separate days. Neither did MEN, either REAL strongmen or everyday men as “recently” as World War II – the strongmen back then were REAL strongmen as opposed to nutjobs now who claim saying “just do it” hurts their feelings (I know, it sounds unbelievable but thats pretty much one of the comments I got) – REAL BIG guys that were BIG and strong (Doug Hepburn – and guess how he got there!) – as opposed to BLOATED AND FAT (some of the jokers who can’t hold on to the chinning bar even yet diss pull-ups as being “just pull-ups and too easy” and that “deadlifts” are the real deal) and so forth – – but for some reason modern day man has become a “Chrome and Fern” addict and a complete MESS.

A caricature of what Mother Nature intended them to be as I say on the Animal Kingdom Workouts page, which pisses the Bozos off no end, but though it doesnt sound nice – – it NEEDS to be said.

You’re spot on. Folks look at the results, but disregard the years of hard labor and slog that went into it. A former friend of mine claimed “I’m skinny so I can do pull-ups”. When I show him the picture of a bigger me doing ’em, his response was “you were pretty thick back then! Did you lift weights?” (and he completely disregarded the reason I was showing him the “bigger” picture, and indeed have it on the covers of my elementary books on shoulders and pull-ups – and if he “got the reason”, he sure found a good way to side step it (though it’s hard to do so with yours truly, hehe)).

The doers in life, and there are precious FEW of them (like you!) understand what it takes though, and thank “the Lord” (I’m not religious as you know, haha) for them!

Not to mention that a lot of “getting big” boils down to genetics. Curiously enough the biggest dudes out there had the crappiest genetics. Doug Hepburn, Herschel Walker, you name it, and they ALL fought the “bad genetics” plague. . .

(like yours truly did and still does, hehe. But I welcome it. Makes the end result all the more “sweeter”). (Bad grammar and that, but hey …! ?)

(and FOOD. Lots of people ignore that FOOD intake is important too – but of course, it’s nowhere near as important as the fat guys make it out to be. Napoleon Hill was RIGHT when he said the human mind looks for 101 different reasons to NOT do the thing as opposed to point out the ONE glaringly obvious reason as to why they CAN DO IT!).

On that note thats a great name for the plague, hehe, and so spot on given the Chinese tendency for racism, both direct and indirect. The Kung flu, Fung Flu, Wu Fu, Han Flu, LOL. All so true!

I’ve always trained alone too – mostly for the reasons you mention. People just dont get what REAL and hard training is about.

Keep fighting the good fight – people like YOU are what make it all worth it!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee (PS – This one deserves a mention in the daily newsletter, and you’ll see it down the road!)

(PS #2 – Brooks Kubik was the one, as I’m sure you know, that popularized “chrome and fern”. hehe. Dinosaur Training was and continues to be a CLASSIC!)