Cool tale of strength...
Using Your Muscles (from
www.davedraper.com)
One way to appreciate your training more fully is to use your muscles in your daily life. As Merv (Griffin) questioned, are your muscles useful, or do you wear them only as your beach attire?
Dave Draper (my confidant and source of material) tells the story of Reg Park and him in South Africa in late 1969. The two strong men were on the way from Johannesburg to Pretoria where they were to guest pose in less than an hour's time. They stopped at a fruit and vegetable market at the outskirts of Johannesburg, and discovered that their car had a flat tire.
At the edges of the bush country and already late, they realized that they had a spare, but no jack. Without choices,
they matter-of-factly loosened the lugnuts and lifted up the car, taking turns holding the car for the several minutes it took to jockey the wheel into place. Without words they tightened the lugnuts, threw the flat tire into the trunk and rolled on toward Pretoria. What Dave remembers most vividly was not that they raised the car and changed the tire, but that the feat took place without conversation. They were late and the tire needed to be changed. Both of the men had spent years pushing heavy weights around the gym, so when they needed the strength, it was there. They knew it and they used it, all without thought, doubts, or discussion.
