Samurai, Without Ever Having Felt Sorry For Itself
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[B]About Myself[/B][indent]Thank you for visiting my journal. I am Samraiwise, my real name is Kazuo Nobuhara.
I live with my wife and 17 year-old daughter, just ourside of Tokyo, an hour ride to our company office in Tokyo. I've been working for a Japanese bookstore company in the past twenty-odd years.
Although I used to do Karate, Judo, Kendo(swordsmanship) from age 14-32 (during age 25 to 32 I did basic weight training also as a part of martial arts training), after fifteen years of hibernation, currently my focus is on achieving my strength gain using free weights.
Aside from pumping iron, I love reading books (novels), watching DVDs (movies) , and Star Trek. I also want to be your good company for those topics.[/indent]
[b]How I re-started free weights [/b][indent]Eearly Summer 2006 I went to a dentist's office my wife recommended and met a pleasant young lady behind the reception counter. After a few visits to the dentist's we became good friends. One day she told me that her father (the dentist) had used to go to gym taking his doctor's advice and then his sciatica was gone. I've been suffering my own sciatica (and still do, getting a little better though), so I told her I would think about trying it myself. Later back at home I tried pushup, I was shocked to find out that I barely managed to do 10 pushups. I decided I wouldn't see my dentist until I could do 50 pushups. I was afraid my wife might ask me why I stopped to see the dentist and instead started pushup, but fortunately she didn't. (Not that I had any romantic fantasy with the lady. I was just satisfying a healthy men's ego. Besides my wife usually doesn't care about what I do.) 10 days later when I finally did 50 pushup I went to the dentist's and tell the young lady I could do 50 pushups. Again the young lady told me that her father had used to do 100kg( 220lbs ) bench press for reps. After hearing that I completely forgot that I came there to fix my teeth, hurried home and blew the dust off my old equipment and got started to lift, murmuring, "Aim high but start low....".
Since then everytime I made a new gain, I continued to go to the dentist's and report to her what I had just accomplished. It took almost a year for the dentist to finish fixing my teeth, but I didn't blame him for that. Unfortunately my wife thought otherwise, had doubt about his skill and decided to see other dentist. I felt a little sorry for him.
The young lady finally quit assisting her father's office to get married to a nice young man I had introduced to her while ago. Now you can see why I'm here. Since the only person who has listened my progress so far was gone, I have to find someone else to whom I could report my progress.
Are you interested? I truly hope so. [img]http://www.angelfire.com/nb/kazuo/img/kittie01.gif[/img][/indent]