Training Log: The Riddle of Steel
- Day 36
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 01-08-2009
Tagged Under : Back Workout, Cancer, Riddle of Steel, Yusaku Matsuda
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
YUSAKU MATSUDA
Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a man who may well have set the standard for courage and dedication in the film industry, and he did the majority of his work not in Hollywood, but in Japan.
If Yusaku Matsuda is known at all to North American audiences, it will be as the psychopathic villain Sato across from Michael Douglas in Black Rain, but he is revered in Asia for a comprehensive and inspiring work prior to his death from cancer at the far-too-young age of 40.
Matsuda became something of a cult icon in Japan with his performance in Yomigaeru Kinro (The Resurrection of the Golden Wold) in 1979, and a long string of quality performances led to his being cast across from Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia in Ridley Scott’s 1989 film Black Rain.
Fittingly, Matsuda joined Japanese screen legend Ken Takakura as the key Japanese actors in the film. Prior to filming, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer but due to his dedication to the project, performed his role and did so with a high degree of intensity.
The cancer spread and worsened throughout this period of time, and Matsuda died only a couple months after the film was officially released, though it was fitting that he lived to see its completion and the success it achieved in bridging on screen two cultures that were at the time quite alien to each other.
Much as Patrick Swayze kept his commitments and worked through cancer to complete his series The Beast, so did Matsuda fight through and overcome a devastating illness and, in the process, inspire others and leave behind a meaningful legacy not only in life but in his profession.
TODAY: BACK (Fast Tempo, 60 Second Rests)
CLOSE GRIP UNDERHAND PULL-UPS (3 sets)
Body x 15
Body x 8
Body x 6
WIDE GRIP REAR PULL-UPS (3 sets)
Body x 8
Body x 6
Body x 6
WIDE GRIP FRONT PULL-UPS (3 sets)
Body x 7
Body x 6
Body x 5
CLOSE GRIP MACHINE PULLDOWNS (3 sets)
- 3-3-3 Tempo, 90 Second Rests
150 x 7
200 x 4
250 x 3
BENT OVER BARBELL ROW (3 sets)
135 x 10
135 x 10
135 x 10
TRAINING NOTES
Total Sets (Back): 15
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