Saturday, September 22, 2012

THE WARRIOR IN YOU: I HAD A BETTER IDEA

"BLUE" JIMMY: FITNESS GURU

BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Lance Armstrong got spanked recently with one of the harshest penalties handed to an athlete -- all his titles stripped away plus banned from cycling for life.

BD OZZY: AYE GUEY!

"BLUE" JIMMY:   Marion Jones and Barry Bonds also got it hard for using performance enhancing drugs.  Sports pundits say the temptation is too great and if they could get rich doing what everyone else is doing; they would do it too.  

BD OZZY:  I think everyone is missing the point.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Yes, sports were invented so that people could improve their physical abilities and excel in the rigors of a hard life at a time which didn't include automatic transportation and mass communication.  These values are being lost today.  The guys who work out at the gym where I work are typical of most workout fanatics everywhere.  All they do are heavy bench presses and gossip about and exchange supplements in the hallway, trying to "get big" so they can walk around the nightclub and look intimidating, hoping that no one will want to fight them.

BD OZZY:  I'll fight them!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Of course, they're influenced by the "sport" of bodybuilding which has a long history of utilizing performance enhancing drugs.

BD OZZY:  I've never understood why people would want to look like a bloated comic book character and walk around in panties.

"BLUE" JIMMY:  When was the last time you actually saw one of those guys do something with those muscles?  Most of them are not athletic at all -- all they do is lift and pose.  It's an unpopular position for a fitness trainer to hold but I believe that training with heavy weights, barbells and machines is not a good or natural way to train.  That type of training doesn't prepare your body to actually do anything.  After years of watching people strain themselves in the weight room, I decided there had to be a better way to train -- then, I had a better idea.  I came up with a workout that would include running, jumping, lifting, carrying, twisting, bending, flipping, rolling, stretching fighting, breathing and anything you might actually do in an active life.  In the class I teach, we call this WARRIOR training and it gets results like you wouldn't believe.

BD OZZY:  I do it too!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  And he's blind!  Which brings up the point that a lot of fully-functioning people are afraid to try the workout or they're just stuck in the rut of grunting and trying to show off doing heavy bench presses.

BD OZZY:  You never know, you might get attacked by a 400 pound barbell some day!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  However, I see things changing.  People with a lot of marketing savvy have created workouts recently with sexy names like P90X,  Insanity and Tapout which utilize training techniques I was using 20 years ago.

BD OZZY:  And they're getting rich too!

"BLUE" JIMMY:  Good for them!  I'd rather see someone get rich doing something useful to the world than something corrupt and illegal.  My time will come.  I'm just glad to be part of a movement that's changing the world one body at a time.  If you're ever in my neighborhood, come sweat with us and try my workout -- it'll bring out the WARRIOR in you.

BD OZZY:  NO S**T!!!

"BLUE" JIMMY  Sake's Alive!

BD OZZY:  Wow!  Wow!