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TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
CARL WEATHERS

Our training inspiration to the right today? A man who has made it to or near the peak of more than one profession. Carl Weathers is best known as the actor who starred opposite Sylvester Stallone as world heavyweight boxing champ Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films.

Every three years from 1976 through 1985, Weathers reprised his role as the Ali-esque champion, making it evident with his on-screen boxing that it would have been quite interesting to see how he would have performed in a real-life boxing ring.

Another of the Hollywood stars who successfully fused acting with high-level bodybuilding, Weathers is also remembered for holding his own across the screen from Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator, including a near-victory in a mid-air armwrestling match with the Austrian Oak.

Carl Weathers’ successful Hollywood career (still going strong and including stints as a director) followed a career as a linebacker in both the NFL (with the Oakland Raiders) and CFL (with the BC Lions). For a long time, this made Weathers probably the most successful and credible actor to emerge from the arena of professional sports.

Gifted with genetics and athletic talent or not, the focus required to succeed in the NFL, fitness and bodybuilding, and in film puts Weathers in some elite company with respect to cross-disciplinary achievements.

Now in his early sixties, there is still plenty of time left for Carl to climb to the top of a new field. Predator co-stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura both became state governors. Sounds like a better idea than Action Jackson 2 anyway…

TODAY’S PERFORMANCE

10 Miles on Stationary Bike: 23:44

Weights:
- Standing Barbell Bicep Curl (x5)
- Standing Dumbbell Hammer Curl (x5)

IPOD SONGS DURING TRAINING

54-50 – Assoholic
Aerosmith – Magic Touch
Aerosmith – The Other Side
Eminem – Never Enough
Ja Rule – Murder Reign
Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off (Always and Forever Mix)
The Jets – Crush on You
Jewel – Intuition
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
White Town – Your Woman
Whodini – Freaks Come Out at Night
Wire Train – I Will Not Fall
Wu Tang Clan – Shame on a Ni**a
Wu Tang Clan – Triumph
Xzibit – Choke Me, Spank Me, Pull My Hair
Yin Yang Twins – Live Again

TRAINING NOTE

Damn! Another day, another personal best on the 10 Mile bike ride. I had attempted to do a 5K on the treadmill twice in the minutes beforehand and had to abort both times due to back problems (after about a minute).

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