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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One man's trash is another man's treasure I guess? If you watch his interview with Howard Stern he actually admits that one of the reasons he got attention was because he put some extra 0's at the end of his paintings and then rich people started to buy them, it's not like he actually changed his style or anything.
He's definitely Alpha, he's doing his own thing and forging his own path. But the thing with young artists is that they sometimes don't have enough experience to know anything about life. So the impulse to be idealistic, to be full of snide and attitude, and say "fuck you" to rules or convention and to whatever gets in your way is a double edged sword.
The artist needs to have the freedom to do their thing, but yet, in the end, there still is the need to exist within conventional world. It's the conventional world that is going to help feed the artist. There will always be that duality, the symbiotic relationship.