Yakking on the phone to ‘burn energy’ and “pecking on the keyboard to build grip’ ?
- This veers on the insane, at least according to me, but hear me out anyway.


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Let me draw the curtains on this one, but before I do, this particular vaudeville show is EVEN more “unbelievable” than the title said.

Normal, smart, sensible (or should be sensible) folks are involved . . .

Back in 1998, I believe, when the internet was in its infancy, yours truly was taking “CSC102” under “Miss Gregg” who was the epitome of “Iron hand in a velvet glove” from an academic standpoint.

She was a great instructor, but STERN too. Unlike a certain jovial Dr Ali we had in 101 . . . who took so long to grade HW that we’d wonder if we ever did ’em hehe.

One fine night, I was on my nth beer working a particularly tough programming assignment she had given us.

And Tim, a friend of mine, and a whiz at that sort of thing was smoking up his nth you know what, hehe.

Bruce was there somewhere too, I believe.

In all the haze of beer, fog, and smoke, I believe the topic got around to grip.

Being all three of us were skinnier than skinny, and only Bruce had some sort of grip from working on cars his entire life until then or part of it, anyway – “body sizes” and “how big that dude is” or “he’s got a crushing grip” were always part of the discussion, as was one of Tim’s “big” roommates who used to smoke weed and workout all day and not much else (according to Tim).

Well, I dont know about that, but dude was strong – big time – so it seemed to me at that time ,especially that one time he almost crushed my hand in his grip.

Which of course repeated itself years later the other way around with a certain Alan Murray and myself, the latter “crushing the former’s hand in his grip” according to him.

Alan would probably never believe it if I told him there was a time my own grip was weaker than weak, and neither would many others. Hehe.

I’ve truly been in the trenches, bro, yet another reason that I CAN and DO bring to you what I do.

There is nothing that supplants learning in the trenches, or can replace it!

Anyway, I remember Tim telling me, while pecking at the keyboard.

“This builds grip too!”

Now the way he said it, making stabbing gestures at the keyboard, and touching the upper forearm, it did seem like it did to an extent!

Years later, one night with the lovely wife and daughter, a young girl “at the time” who wouldn’t for the life of her understand why Mommy was always tired and cranky at the end of the day.

The reply?

“I burn a lot of energy talking on the phone so I’m tired!”

My daughter said the following in an incredulous manner.

HUH??????

“Yes! The brain uses energy too!” according to the lovely wife.

And I dont think I need to get into what I thought when I heard this …

But really, these sort of stupid, inane comments is why the majority of the world is as unfit, cranky, and depressed as they are today.

Back in college, what Tim and I thought in that regard might could be excused.

But as adults, past 25?

No way!

And as I sit here thinking of a dream in which I was indeed “smoking it up” (in real life, every time It’s been offered to me it has had no impact – I’d rather have a COLD six pack!) . . .this memory came to mind.

So I shared it with y’all, hehe.

I wonder what the people above would tell me if I got them on tough workouts in Gorilla Grip.

Or Gorilla Grip – Advanced . . .

Or, Pull-ups – from STUD to SUPER STUD – within weeks! 

Or, one of my very best ever, Animal Kingdom Workouts . . .

HA!

Alright, enough of this.

Grab the books above if you haven’t already – and you’ll know what it means to build a strong grip and burn FAT, hehe. (and energy).

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Be sure to pick up the Rolls Royce of Fitness right here.

PS #2 – Bruce was the one that made the comment of, “you’re here to study!? ” No, man!

“You’re here to smoke it up and get laid!”

He was more right than he thought, hehe. Much respect – great guy – till THIS DAY!

(I can still hear the KillJoy’s moaning about “responsibility” and how dare he, etc. LOL. Really, folks. We live – ONCE! Not saying we live to smoke it up, drink ‘er up, and do nothing – but FUN – and ENJOYMENT – is the key to success at anything, and the Bozos who move through life with a mopey hangdog expression, well, guess what THEY get out of life!).

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