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Gianni, a student of mine exemplies this example perfectly (former student).

I met him through a third party – he’s an Italian dude, and a great guy “looking to improve his English”

Over 50, divorced, with a girlfriend (at the time, I think, now, I’m not sure) – living right next to where I did in an even “posher” area (though I must admit, I’ll take my own apartment with no elevators, hehe. But I’ll upgrade to a posher one happily too, but with no elevators most likely!).

Hehe…

Elevators have never been important to me, not even when lugging unwiedly 50 kg plus boxes back and forth from the management office, tea threatening to spill out on the “long” 10 or so minute back walk (without it, a brisk 5 minute walk) – and then up and down flights of stairs repeatedly.

In and as of itself, thats a strongman workout for you, and do it in the blazing heat and humidity – and mid afternoons of Southern China where nary a bird tweets – well, you might be classified as a crazy fool. Hehe.

I was, I know!

All those workouts in blazing hot weather – SEARING hot – that proved to be (later) the basis for one of the best courses I ever wrote (power packed) – Advanced Hill Training!

Of course, when I finally made that course and got the pictures taken – they were taken on a cool day – and the book was written with 2 A/C’s on full blast. Hehe.

Tells you a lot about goals, how the subconscious accomplishes them – one small example).

Anyway … where was I, friend.

Ah yes, Gianni.

Great guy, but he’d often try and skimp on the English classes. Hehe. Pay etc.

But he negotiated fairly well, and most of all, I liked the guy – so I was happy to give him discounts etc – key thing being, I liked him.

Sensible, and practical, used to be a wrestler back in the day, did (mandatory, I believe for a coupla years – not sure if Italy still has conscription???) time in the Army – over 6 feet tall, not quite a “battletank” like my buddy from the Marines, but in his day, he probably was!

His grip though could use improving, hehe.

“Why you grip my hand so hard”, I still remember him saying one night.

My bad on that one, Gianni. Hehe.

Then I remember another dude from the UK once telling me “Gilliam” …

“YOU pull people towards you!”

That I do, friend.

If you’re a tiny guy growing up whose confidence was battered and shattered in every fuckin way possible, you do what you got to (if you’re one of the DOERS).

The Gorilla Grip was one of them.

From being laughed at roundly for years, and now praised … quite the journey it has been for me (and can be for YOU TOO!).

Anyway, Gianni would often say the following as well during the classes, and negotiating future pay etc.

“I gotta sit by the pool on Sunday with my friends!”

To me, this was natural.

When I told my then wife, she exploded in fury.

“He’s sitting there with his friends at the pool”, she went. “And look at you!”

Huh, I asked.

She was, of course, bitching about money.

To me, I didnt have the slightest feeling of “he has money and I don’t” (at the time, I didnt have a lot of it, but I could care less).

(which of course, is the “golden key” to attracting anything).

Then wife cared, an how. Hehe.

Anyway …

This dude was realistic though. Practical. Had been in the trenches, and though I never asked him, I’ll wager a bet his life pre-40 looked VERY different from what I saw it when I met him.

He was fiercely holding on to that life, and still is.

Hey, I get it, bro.

When you’ve been through tough times, you dont want them again, and do all you can to save a buck even if you don’t need to!

But anyway …

If you talk to him, at least back then when I did, despite his money, I got the “gritty realism” feeling, which is why I liked him (and vice versa).

And that, my friend, is what – one unhidden reason – or perhaps hidden – why my products are so damned successful and sought after in a certain niche, expanding very rapidly.

Folks can identify with the gritty realism – probably why like me, they call ’em manuals!

The HARD nitty grittes that work. 

The unfancy pictures. 

The no BS attitude!

Take no prisoners!

And NO fancy shmnacy rubbish you see everywhere these days when it comes to fitness!

No girls, no smart(dumb)phones and so forth …

STuff done in a manner most would balk at i.e. “eff that” as Charles Mitchell once famously said, hehe.

But that grit, that realism, it attracts the doers.

Some of my best products, my friend, were created in this mould – this spirit.

I didnt necessarily have a lot of money years ago when I CREATED THEM!

This holds true for my fitness books – and other writing as well.

True, some were created during “great times” – but truth being, ALL times when creating any product for me are great times – I even lose track of time!

But often times, I prefer – even when I’m not necessarily “hard up for cash” or whatever (or haven’t been) – to create the product in that mould.

I Dont know why.

Thats me!

I’d rather brutal, bare bones, gritty realistic and what works as opposed to fancy idiotic pictures and stuff which are great if you like ’em, but whats the friggin point?

Maybe if I’m making a movie someday, but I dont want to as of now. Hehe.

So says the “movie star”. Hehe.

Perhaps the ONE book I could choose amongst all my others which displays this characteristic the best?

Fast and Furious Fitness – the Collector’s Edition.

That cover makes a differerence. The words do. ALL OF it does, the entire package does!

I can’t explain it, if there is one book that truly displays the grit, it is this!

Then of course, Pushup Central and Isometric and Flexibility Training … two other courses in that same mould.

EXACT SAME!

Right down to the dents in the wall, the blase and seemingly uninspiring “walls” – and so forth.

But, it’s inspiring to the doers, friend.

Remember, you gotta get back to the basics as Rocky was so famously told in Rocky III!

THAT is what does it, friend.

Anyway, two copies left for the Collector’s Edition.

You’ll see this in a future email, but people have already expressed interest in getting it – for free – but I’m holdin goff on that, because I really don’t want to give it away for free.

Other hand, if THIS list doesn’t step up and get the last two, I might well do that.

But really, valuable gems like this … I dont know, I dont want to give it away.

But friend, they’ve gotta go, and thats precisely what I WILL Do down the line if YOU don’t step up and grab this now.

Trust me, it’s one of the best fitness reads you’ve ever read..

And the Collector’s Edition is just gold, pure gold, you’ll see what I mean when you get it.

Anyway, thats that from yours truly realistic.

Back soon!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee