— You, dear, abuse your outstanding possibilities, given by nature… if you stop playing the fool, you may became a leading sportsman…
I would like to put a full stop in these presumptions. It is briefly, but concisely.
I got a main from nature that is ability to analogize critically. And most likely, this is the most necessary and useful that the nature can give to the man. I spent my childhood in constant visiting clinics, lying on the bed with thermometer, receiving different medical treatments and etc… All I remember is mustard plasters, glass-cups and spirit’s odor. During weeks, when I was lying under the blanket, I was reading the books. While other children were playing in the street, I was “eating” the books one by one. I did not become healthier, but information was making its business. And when I was 13 years old, the doctor made a diagnosis that was arrhythmia. I was strongly prohibited to weight heaviness by the time when I “maturated” fully already.
It was a time to give a rest to my brain and start working by muscles. But it is easy to say then to do. And my first efforts can be recollected with sympathetic . As I was exempted from a physical culture at the school, so running for 100 meters was a trial. To hang on horizontal bar, “counting till 20” , then first chin-up were small victories that made me very happy. Then my first “bodybuilding” drill hall in the basement of “pioneer’s house”. And as a result, in one year I could chin-up 6 times already. I worked off my excess weight and my biceps became visual. It is very funny to recollect it now, because I was nothing actually, and did not compare myself with anybody else. It was my own triumph.
At the picture in left order: 10, 15 and 20 years old
The period, about which I’m talking about, is an epoch before the formula. It is the epoch, when Scwartrseneger’s pictures and posters covered for all free wall parts in my room. When you pull an iron during 3 hours a day and don’t eat a beef only during a night, then vegetarianism is ridicule under the “great aim”. When a long years delay at one place (72 kg, 74… and again 75 kg) genders despairing ideas: May be I should try? Methane, Deca… in that time it was not known yet such direful names as klenbuterol… m,.m,. But something helps to control. And the price was one of the importances. Parents didn’t pamper, and the cost was too expensive for my pocket-book. And this cap blew over soon. I didn’t feel pity for wasted time in the training hall. The main thing is that I didn’t give my body out to chemistry.
Some time after everything back to its place, i.e. thoughts and mind. But in that time it was a desperate effort that was full by defeat and baffle. It was a fight under own body.
What about skeptics? Lets try to look at the pictures. The picture of a failure great sportsman.
Often sportsmen ask me about anthropometrical and power indicators.
Such interest to quantitative body evaluations is admitted, but we should not concentrate on it. The matter is not in size or strength as it is. There are many beings that are bigger or stronger than we are. The importance is in harmony. Each form has own size and it is a main condition of system’s existence. Crazy hypertrophy at any cost is impasse. And first, it is the impasse in development organism as a “conscious” system. However, in order to satisfy the interest of “materialists”, I will enumerate the most popular parameters:
Age |
15 |
30 |
Weight |
62 kg |
105 kg |
Tall |
1.76 m |
1.84 m |
Biceps |
0.26 m |
0.45 m |
| Knee-bend with a bar | 35 kg |
180 kg |
| Bending of hands with a bar | 12 kg |
70 kg |
Most probably many people will say—footling results. However we should not forget—we use different recourses and pursue different purposes.