Charles is truly devoted to his athletes. Hell, I think he has some twisted love affair with the entire Venice scene that doesn't allow him to venture off into other endeavors...
Charles has a one room shack in the basement at Gold's. All the man does is stay awake all night watching old Mr. Olympias while trying to beat his world record of most number of times viewing Pumping Iron...
Which reminds me of a story...
One night, a few of my friends and I were driving by Gold's gym. It must have been around 3am, we were just getting out of a club and decided to drive around, drunk as all hell, until the sun came out. Well, around close to 4am or so, it's so damn clear on my mind that I don't think I could ever forget, we see this black guy doing what appeared to be a break in into Gold's gym. He was outback with both his hands up against the wall while looking up and shaking his head. Oddly enough his pants were down to his knees and he had a pair of ReeBok pumps on. Most would have figure that he was maybe getting a blow job or maybe jerking off, but my boys and I figured that since he is black, there is no telling if it was a blow job or maybe a new technique to break into an establishment. It was too damn dark to be able to make out what the hell he was doing and the fact that he is a tinge black made it all the more difficult. Anyhow, after a few minutes of peeking at this guy, trying to figure out if he was trying to break in, one of my boys pulls out his cell phone to call the cops and all of a sudden we notice this guy turn around while zipping up his pants. To our surprise, it was none other than Charles Glass. The man had decided to step out of his car to take a leak, to then only go back into his car and get another hour of sleep or so until he started his day in Gold's at 4am.
Glass is truly hardcore..
P.S. When he pulled away from the wall, he looked a little like this..
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