MAKING MY OWN GYM
Every
where I move I could make a Gym so that I don’t stop training. We bought
cement and made our own weights where we trained and made good looking
bodies. We were partners training together and many friends joined us. In
2000, Meshack Ochieng my younger brother came to Kisumu where he joined us.
We introduced him to our training techniques. I moved to Mumias and left
Mechack in Kisumu with Carlos.
ANOTHER
NIGHT MARE
In Mumias I had to train. I was
lucky enough to make weights out of scrape metals in the first week and
moved them to Kisumu. When I came back to Mumias, I made other weights and
started making my own Gym. I trained for a year and when Meshack joined me
in Mumias, he was in a good shape that he decided to visit body building
stage and he performed well. My chance to use scrape metals to make weights
increased and I even made benches and machines and enough weights for
training every part of human body. It is what I today call the fit Nation a
Gym that has produced great champions. I had a vision and must be fulfill. I
want to be ambassador of body building. I want to make great champs out of
my Gym.
My model in
body building world was Kevin Levrone. And as per now, I go for phil heath.
My main aim is to become a professional body builder and I am working
towards that.
The main
challenges I got in this sport is that to move ahead you must get somebody
to pay for your diet including food supplements and this is not an easy
task, because in Africa, Body Building has been neglected and finding
sponsor ship even for games becomes difficult. And that has made lot
potential body builders in Africa loose hope in the sport. Most of us are
doing it because we take it as a life style.
I regard body building as mother
of all sports. It requires total discipline to make a decent physic. My plea
is that companies and organizations should take body building and promote
this sport like any other sport in this Universe. African body builders are
great because most bodies are great but are built with local food and most
athletes lack modern training facilities. They look impressive. I don’t use
steroids; I am a natural body builder. I some sometimes use proteins and
carbohydrate powders to enhance my physic. I train every body part 2 times a
week. I take not less than 5 meals a day. I train 2 times a day, 5 times a
week.
MEALS
I like mostly
porridge made from collection of cereals like soya beans green gram, rice
millet, maize, herring, beans peas and many other cereals. I take porridge
ad sweat potatoes and eggs
RELIGION
I am a
Christian and like serving God.
HOBBIES
Making
friends and watching movies
MOTTO
(Lion in the
Gym)
I trained the
toughest way that people would say over trained but fortunately it works for
me.
MY
PROFESSION.
Professionally I am a mechanic specialized in pneumatic an hydraulic
systems, building engines and maintenance of mechanical components. I have
worked mostly in Germany, Japan and USA heavy duty
Vehicles and
in Bell and Cameco products. I have been working also on tractors like SAME,
New Holland and John Deere machines. I love working on hydraulic machines
and equipments and building engines. I truly love mechanics.
BAD
TIMES
The worst
challenge in body building is traveling. You never know whether you will get
a Gym where you want to travel. This is the worst virus that can lock you
out of Gym. I would urge all athletes not to lose hope when they fail to win
titles. You have to train hard and diet the right way.
TRAINING PROGRAM
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MONDAY |
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MORNING |
EVENING |
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Quads
and Calves |
Chest
triceps and abs |
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TUESDAY |
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Back and calves |
Delts and biceps |
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WEDNESDAY |
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Hamstring and calves |
traps and forearms |
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THURSDAY-rest |
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FRIDAY |
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Quads hamstring and calves |
Chest and triceps |
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SATURDAY |
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Back delts and abs |
Traps biceps and forearm |
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SUNDAY- rest.
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Michael Otieno OBUYA 
