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| Like all champions, Reg Park trained with total concentration and intense mental focus. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
I saw something amazing this morning.
Amazing and scary.
And very, very stupid.
A 20-something guy was out jogging.
He was running right down the middle of
the road.
It was a side-street in a residential area,
and it was early - not many cars on the
road - so I suppose that was okay.
Sidewalk would have been better, but it's
been raining, and maybe the sidewalk had
too many deep puddles.
Whatever.
So there he is, running down the road.
Anyhow, a blue car comes up behind him,
slows down, and then moves over to pass
him.
Gives him what you would think would be
enough room.
But it almost wasn't.
Because the jogger suddenly veers to the
side, and almost steps right in front of the
car right as it begins to pass him.
The car veers over to the side and barely
misses him.
The driver honks his horn and undoubtedly
curses a blue streak.
Passes the kid, and gets on down the road
and as far away from him as possible.
Meanwhile, the kid is trying to figure out
what happened.
I look a little more closely, and of course
he has his ear-buds in - and he's holding
his device in his left hand.
And when he veered into the car, he veered
to his left.
Yeah, that was it. That was what happened.
Mr. Jogger looked down at his device - and
twisted to the side as he did it - and that
pulled him over to the left - and with his
ear-buds in and his mix-tape cranked up
to the max, the poor guy had no idea there
was a car anywhere near him.
No idea in the world.
It was a good thing the driver saw him in
time to pull out of the way.
Because otherwise we would have had bits
and pieces of jogger splattered all over the
neighborhood.
I share the story not to be harsh with joggers.
I know many of them.
Some of them are fine people.
And to tell the truth, there are many weight-
trainers who work out with just as much - or
as little - mindfulness as the jogger I saw.
They have no idea what's going on around
them - or where they are vis-a-vis anyone
else - or how close they are to bumping into
someone in the middle of a heavy set.
Nor do they have any idea what's going on
inside their bodies.
That inner universe Bill Pearl talks about isn't
exactly on their radar screens.
There muscles may be sending them all kinds
of important messages, but you know darn
well they're not hearing any of them.
Of course, that's how accidents happen - and
it's how results DON'T happen.
And please note: there's nothing wrong with
ear-buds, per se . . . . or with music . . . . but
you can't turn off your mind when you train.
I talk about things like concentration, focus,
and awareness all the time. If you're a long-
time reader, you've heard me talk about
plenty of times.
But it never hurts to be reminded.
And who knows - maybe somehow today's
message will get back to this morning's
jogger - assuming he made it home in
one piece.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. I cover the mental aspects of strength
training and muscle-building in these books:
Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength
and Development
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_training.html
Strength, Muscle and Power
http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html
Dinosaur Bodyweight Training
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_bodyweight.html
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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:
"Ear-buds in, music on, mind off, is not
a very good way to train."
-- Brooks Kubik
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