Meet Rasul. He is an ex-Marine, one of our really good friends and an absolute expert at making Chris and I really, really - unbelievably sore. Chris is helping him with his business and in exchange, he is helping us with our 'business'.
For those of you who don't know, my 'business' is located in my 'trunk' and 'backyard' area. So, in essence, Rasul will be helping me remove junk from my trunk, keep the acreage down in my backyard and stop my business from going all over the place.
He's going to come over twice a week for a month to teach us exercises that don't require machines or weights and that incorporate our core body strength and several different muscle groups at once. Who knew that there were so many [explitive] kinds of squats?!! He even teaches us ways to use Gunnar in our excercises (but you have to have a spotter when you do and you can't just throw him down when your arms give out).
Rasul is clear to say, however, that he is not a trainer: he's a teacher. He's of the philosophy that most of us put our responsibility to get in shape onto the trainer instead of ourselves which creates a relationship of dependency and results in only short lived success. I think he's right. Chris and I had a trainer for a few months and when our sessions ended, so did our lowered body fat and intense work outs at the gym.
He's only come a few times now, but I think it's working.
I mean, check us out.
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