"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Raymond Chandler
As I walked into Bev Francis' Powerhouse Gym, these words from Chandler rang out in my head. In order for his words to be realized in a bodybuilding sense, Chandler would agree that you'll probably need some kind of factory. If that factory isn't equipped to foster a hardcore attitude, you're not going to grow any muscles. Environment plays a big role in your training attitude
One of the best parts about belonging to the RX Muscle family is the trips. Usually these ventures involve work (a lot of work), but sometimes they're more about FUN. This was one of those relaxing "fun" ones.
I've come to tolerate many things in the gym that I would never tolerate anywhere else. I guess that tolerance has grown over time because back in the day no one would ever get away with some of the shit people get away with today. I'm talking about stuff like wonton little nerds sitting on a machine during primetime reading a book between sets like they are the only one in the gym, oblivious to the line of people waiting to use the thing. . . idiots who step in front of me while I'm in the middle of a set and block the mirror. . . people who take every pair of dumbbells from the 20s on down to some obscure corner of the gym to do walking lunges or some other useless exercise and never bring them back. . . and, as you can imagine, there's more.
I've been to Gold's Gym in Venice, California (the "Mecca of bodybuilding") twice in the last 14 years. Before that I was there every single day-- sometimes twice in one day-- since 1979. The first revisit was about five years ago. My last visit was this past week. This last one was particularly nostalgic because I was staying at a friend's house who lived five blocks from where I lived in Venice all those years ago. It was hard enough being back there and noticing how the city had grown up without me.
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