Leaning against a brick wall watching men get out of their expensive cars and walking to the gym.
I can only see them from the waist up as a long hedge obscures my view of their bottom half. As I watch each guy get out of their car I see the same thing... perfect hair, tanned, muscle shirt, big chest, huge arms.
I start nodding my head. Each guy in turn clears the hedge. Yup, I knew it. Chicken legs. Stuck in the '80's where all you needed was a big chest and two tickets to the gun show. They don't work their legs, and I know this is going to sound a little gay, but they look stupid.
You know why they don't work their legs? Because it's hard. It's not easy doing squats to the point you think your spine is going to pop right out of your hips. It's not fun doing 15 sets of calf raises on a Saturday night when those other guys had knocked off a lot earlier and were now hitting the bars. When I belonged to a gym, I never had to wait to use the leg equipment.
These guys take a shortcut in the gym, and I'm sure they take a shortcut in other aspects of their lives. They're like the college recruit that comes from a house with a three or four car garage. No fire, nothing to overcome, all upper body, no lower body. The recruit you want is the guy with a one car garage, or better yet, no garage.
Sometimes in life you have to do the stuff that isn't fun, stuff that hurts. Not always, but sometimes.
Work your calves.
Kurt
1 comment:
some of us are genetically blessed with killer calf muscles... True that many of those guys you saw probably don't do any leg work, but I'm sure you know a few guys who whine about the lack of progress they can make on their calves... Did you know that calf muscle implants are one of the most common cosmetic surgeries performed on men??
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