We all have routines that are designed to get things done. We arise at a certain time each day, we go to work until quitting time, we put in the necessary effort to get the job done and to get home by a certain time to engage our “other” lives related to our families. This is the routine of about 75% of the population around the world with certain exceptions.
The greatest advice I picked up regarding winning came from a colleague of mine that escaped the Communists in Korea. He was a young physician training in the Northern part of Korea when the Communists swept into power and took control of the region where he was in medical training. He was instantly pressed into service providing medical care to the North Korean Army. He said he worked 20 hours a day and if he got a couple hours of sleep and some food it was considered a good day.
One night he and some other physicians and some nurses escaped and headed out to find South Korean Army forces i the South. They were captured 3 times and were lined up for execution by firing squad. Each time they were pulled out of line because they were doctors. Each time they escaped again to continue their journey to the South. Eventually after weeks of moving by night and sleeping by day they were picked up by an American patrol. They were taken into captivity, fed, clothed, housed , debriefed, and put to work. Eventually, he met up with the Chief of Surgery from the University of Minnesota who liked him and they became close friends. This physician invited my friend to attend the University of Minnesota’s College of medicine to complete his training. He encouraged him to become a Surgeon.
After several months he was able to depart South Korea with the U.S. Army and he headed for Minnesota. In summary, he married, graduated from Minnesota got into the Surgical Residency and became a Thoracic Vascular Surgeon.
I met him when I was doing rural healthcare with his group in Iowa. We were friends and shared a number of cases together. One day I asked him for some advice about becoming successful. He said, “You have to work while your competitors are sleeping, relaxing, drinking or otherwise engaged. This is how you outwork and out perform everybody else. There is no substitute for this extra effort.”
Bottom line for all of us to win at bodybuilding anything else is the same, 1.) Get up earlier 2.) Stay longer to train 3.) Work harder than anybody else. 4.) Fail. 5.) Fail again 6.) Never EVER quit.
This is the mindset that builds CHAMPIONS…….This is your life! Never Quit. This is YOUR TIME!
Six Pack and Senior 