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Muscle Building Diet for the Asian Male
As a strength trainer with an Asian American background, I often get questions and comments from Asian dudes all over the world. A common theme that pops up among Asian lifters is the belief that their Asian genes are limiting their progress in their quest for a muscular physique. I always tell them this: don't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in your training goals or any goal. It does not matter if you are Asian or a skinny bastard or a woman. If your goal is to be bigger, faster, stronger, then you still travel the same road that everyone else travels to size and strength. I mean look at Tommy Kono . Here was a Japanese American who grew up in an internment camp, and he became arguably the greatest Olympic weightlifter the US offered to the world. He was also a successful bodybuilder, winning the Mr. Universe title in 1955 and 1957. He built a phenomenal physique in an era before steroids. He didn't let race or ethnicity be a limiting factor in his mind or on
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What is interesting about the central Asians is that they are considered a "Turkic" people, i.e. their language and culture come under the same umbrella as the people here in Turkey as well as the Uighurs in Xinjiang and the Azeris of Azerbaijan.
Because of my darker skin, and weird accent when I speak Turkish (badly, I'll add!) many people here in Istanbul presume I'm an Uzbek, Khyrgiz, or Kazakh - there are areas of the city with higher concentrations of these Asiatic Turks. Some Turks view central Asians in a kind of "brotherly" way because the languages and cultures are so closely related.
In fact, if you visit some of the old palaces here and see Turkish paintings from around the 15th century, you will notice that the Turks seemed to look more East Asian than they do now.