300 TRAINING (ACTUAL)

Human nature makes human behavior predictable.

Those who have benefited from the work of others always try to wring a little more profit from that work, to keep the gravy train running just a little bit longer. Especially when they cannot develop anything new or genuine on their own.

Respect is easy to steal, and the mantel of stolen respect should be just as easy to see through … for those who aren’t stupid. But there is a lot of stupid in the world right now. Many people are searching so hard for something — anything — that when it feels good or seems true or strokes their ego and need, they don’t even try to look behind the curtain.

The times are such that, when people hear, “From each according to ability, to each according to need,” they only see themselves on the receiving side, the beneficiaries of someone else’s work, or their reputation, their “product”. It’s a short step from there to the parasites believing that they actually did the work themselves, that they produced it.

Of course, if you need it then it should be yours at no cost … #sarcasm. Because sooner or later that means I work while you benefit, and your ideology compels me to provide for you because you can’t provide for yourself. You can’t create or originate, you can only piggy on others’ backs, then pretend you did the work all along, and shout it from the rooftops — loud draws attention and I know it because I’ve done it.

I shouted and screamed about work I did, risks I took, the things I created, maybe shouting for the respect I thought I deserved. When I learned to do the work and allow the results to speak for me, and when I altruistically shared my output and the work done to manifest it with others, I invited the shouters to step in and assume credit. My bad.

I value the good work I have done. I also see it in the context of its doing. And I see the difference between that and trying to repurpose the work and the outcomes for the sake of commerce.

Workout plans are just numbers on paper, or a screen. We give those numbers value by applying them individually, with wholistic psychological and dietary support, by manipulating desire and feedback, and providing the safety net an individual must know exists in order to push past what he or she believes to be possible.

The numbers themselves are useless. Without value. Which is why I will give this plan/ record and the underlying explanation away for free. Mostly to cut the legs from under those who believe they are entitled to earn money and standing from work they did not do.

Pages 9-60 of this PDF are the record of work done by actors and stunt team for the movie titled, “300”. It meant everything at the time. It means nothing now. Unless you can learn from the description and put it to use. This is just a bunch of circuit training from the 2005 era when the work was done, and the reasoning is described in the following pages. I certainly wouldn’t prescribe the same work these days. And the eight movie jobs I did after “300” prove it.

In a normal, respectful world I wouldn’t give my work away or do so in order to put someone else in their place, to remind them of agreements they made and signed, or to highlight their repeated transgressions. So for every plan they did not design or implement but try to sell, or trade upon to gain social and financial capital I will release the real plan, the actual work done, and do so free of charge or for a nominal fee. Because fuck them.

But let me not finish with that sentiment because it has taken a long time to come to this. Despite a hostile takeover, despite the hostility fueled by watching the project I created ruined by avarice and insecurity, I have been patient. I have not overreacted when the current owner and managers overstepped or outmaneuvered or outright disregarded the agreements we signed. Because sometimes I have empathy for those who cannot create or originate, who cannot adapt to current circumstances without pretending they were responsible for the ideas and effort and sacrifice that gave value and integrity to the brand ... mostly it makes me sad, sometimes though I get angry. What kind of man (or woman) takes credit for another man's work, feels good about that, and actively tries to reinforce the lie?

So let me circle back to the work — what I actually imagined and created and executed. During the time when I co-owned Gym Jones I did a lot of work, not for hire, not under contract but as a sovereign individual — and all of the movie contracts read as such — so when I was forced out my copyrighted material came with me. Of the 209 Sunday Sermons that were behind the paywall, we have identified 140 that are good and useful. The book of them is laid out and we are building the digital support package to enrich those words. Maybe it will be published by the end of the year. Maybe not.

Keep checking back though, because maybe all the stuff they would kill for over at Men's Fitness or Men's Health or whatever the fuck matters in that monthly exercise magazine space these days, will be available somewhere, in conjunction with the book, for free ... after all, it's what you are entitled to.

On the other hand, if you think the exercises matter more than the leadership or the coaching or the chameleon-like adaptability to individual circumstance, you will be sorely disappointed.