What influences in your capability to focus?

Taking your first mighty steps into bodybuilding depends on you and around you.

 

Pics & footage provided by OnCeTr.

 

When OnCe Tr was 17 years old had to pass through his first heavy test in bodybuilding. He contested  in Junior Category along Talara Province  (Piura, Peru) . “I was the youngest among all them up to that day,” he remembers. He did it very well – he got the second place.

 

“My parents and my uncle motivated me to do it, so achieving experience.” Only for the record, the uncle he refers to is the pro bodybuilder and South American champion José escobar.

 

Just one year before, at 16, he has started his training  in this discipline, but  he already brought the experience from other disciplines he had doing before. Muay Thai among them. “Because before I didn’t like the fitness world much, but I began to train from nothing, then I held on this,” he affirms.

 

At the moment we post this entry, OnCe Tr is 19 years old, 5.7 feet height, 170 lbs weight. He’s plenty focused in bodybuilding, he started to work as a trainer and a personal trainer at Séco’s Gym, his parents’ facility in Los Organos, one of the cities in the Talara Beaches Circuit, Northwestern Peru.

 

It’s “a part of the process”

From Monday to Saturday, his days begin at 7:00 in the morning. His first work is training other people. Afternoons are dedicated to him training his own body. After 10:00 at night, OnCe is already in the bed.

 

“It’s hard because standing so much time inside one only place is stressful, but it’s for a purpose, so I assume it as a part of the process.” That doesn’t mean he leave to amuse in his free time: “I like to go out eating with friends, going to the beach, or sometimes playing video-games.”

 

And when you are 19 years old, friends try you many times to get out the rule  once a time. Your will power comes in there. “If I have no time, then I say I can’t, or if it’s something I don’t like, I say I don’t like or not for now.”

 

Motivation comes from home

OnCe Tr works out as a bodybuilder, in his own words, because he likes it. But that affection has been influenced by a bodybuilder dad and a mom who involved into fitness by the motivation of OnCe’s dad, Rigoberto Paredes a.k.a. el Séco. Although it’s not a general rule, wouldn’t it logical if your parents are athletes, you end to be an athlete?

 

For sure, OnCe didn’t want to do anything with the bodybuilding in the beginning, despite the pushing of his parents. “I remember once upon a day I said them when they sign me up in a martial arts academy, I enter the gym that day.” The wish was granted. But OnCe also had to accomplish his part of the deal. “I entered the gym that day ignoring I settled it down.”

 

His parents’ support has been total. In return, OnCe support them by working at the gym. And that support extends to what is already his sports career.

 

To be strong

Regarding, his friends think OnCe has gained something like a lottery: “They say I’m lucky for having parents so because it seems they give me all, but that’s not so – I simply live quiet, that’s it.”

 

OnCe sustains you must be strong on what you want. He has it more than clear in his case: “Following up on my own, because when something gets inside your head, you must not leave despite anyone bloks you to do what you want.”

 

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¿qué influye en tu capacidad para enfocarte?

Dar tus primeros pasos firmes en el fisicoculturismo depende de ti y de tu entorno.

 

Fotos y videos proporcionados por Once Tr.

 

 

Cuando Once Tr tenía 17 años de edad, le tocó pasar una de sus primeras pruebas de fuego en el fisicoculturismo. Concursó en la categoría juveniles a nivel de toda la provincia de Talara (Piura, Perú). “Era el más joven de todos ese día”, recuerda. Lo hizo muy bien: quedó en segundo lugar.

 

“Mis papás y mi tío me motivaron para que lo haga y así ir agarrando experiencia”. Solo para el registro, el tío al que se refiere Once es el fisicoculturista profesional y campeón sudamericano José Escobar.

 

Un año antes, a los 16, había comenzado su entrenamiento en esta disciplina, pero ya traía la experiencia de las otras disciplinas que había practicado antes; el muay thai entre ellas. “Porque antes no me gustaba mucho el mundo del fitness,pero de la nada empecé a entrenar y me quedé en esto”, afirma.

 

Al momento de publicar esta entrada, Once Tr tiene 19 años de edad, 170 cm de estatura y 77 kilos de peso. Está enfocado plenamente en el fisicoculturismo y ha comenzado a trabajar como entrenador y entrenador personal en el Seco’s Gym, el gimnasio que sus padres tienen en Los Órganos, una de las ciudades del circuito de playas de Talara, al norte del Perú.

 

“Es parte del proceso”

Sus días de lunes a sábado comienzan a las 7:00 de la mañana. Su primera tarea es entrenar a otras personas. Las tardes están dedicadas a que él entrene su propio cuerpo.  Después de las 10:00 de la noche, Once ya está en su cama.

 

“Es difícil ya que estar tanto tiempo metido en un solo lugar es estresante,pero es por un propósito, así que yo lo veo como parte del proceso”. Eso no significa que deje de distraerse en sus ratos libres: “Me gusta salir a comer con amigos,ir a la playa o jugar videojuegos a veces”.

 

Y cuando tienes 19 años de edad, los amigos muchas veces te tientan a que saques los pies del plato alguna vez. Es ahí donde entra tu fuerza de voluntad: “Si no tengo tiempo pues digo que no puedo O si es algo que no me gusta les digo que no me gusta o por ahora no”.

 

La motivación viene de casa

Once Tr entrena como fisicoculturista, en sus propias palabras, porque le gusta; pero ese gusto ha sido influido por un papá fisicoculturista y una mamá que se involucró en el fitness por motivación del papá de Once, Rigoberto Paredes El Seco. Aunque no es una regla general, ¿no sería lógico que si tus dos papás son deportistas termines siendo deportista?

 

Claro que al inicio Once no quería saber nada con el fisicoculturismo, a pesar de la insistencia de sus progenitores: “me acuerdo que un día yo les dije que cuando me matriculen en una academia de artes marciales, ese día entro al gym" . el deseo fue concedido, pero Once también tenía que cumplir su parte del trato: “Ese día entré al gym sin saber que me quedaría en esto”.

 

El apoyo de sus padres ha sido total; en retribución, Once los apoya trabajando en el gimnasio. Y ese apoyo se extiende a lo que ya es su carrera deportiva.

 

Ser firme

Al respecto, sus amigos piensan que Once se ha sacado algo así como la lotería: “Dicen que tengo suerte de tener unos papás así porque parece que me dan todo, pero no es así; simplemente vivo tranquilo y ya”.

 

Once sostiene que debes ser firme en lo que quieres. En su caso, lo tiene más que claro: “Seguir en lo mío,porque cuando se te mete algo en la cabeza no debes dejar que nadie te impida hacer eso que quieres “.

 

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Guillermo Checa – a muscled activist

One of his favorite places to work out is at the mountains. (All photographs provided by Guillermo Checa)

 

Passion, knowledge, clear plans.  But an excellent physical condition too. Many activists think it’s only necessary to know speaking well and creating. That’s important. But, where they do think they can get the whole vitality that job requires from?

 

Guillermo Checa commits a good part of his free time to forest every empty lot in Piura City, Peru.  “The job of planting is heavy, it requires much physical effort,” he affirms. That’s why he also commits part of his time to build muscle.

“When I go out to plant, I have to work with a shovel, to move sand, to carry up big bags, and ddealing with the Sun too.” That’s when building muscle helps him to have power, flexibility, and  a better response to the so hard weather conditions like Piura, where the highs can rise until 100ºF temperature.

 

Checa leads a volunteers team called Ksembrando Vidas. As its name in Spanish says it, its job is the forestation and the reforestation by using native species of Piura Department.

 

Also, Guillermo is an avid reader, an art-pieces collector, and he’s considered as one of the new leaders of his community. He thinks this is just the beginning of his public life. Oh, he also has time to work as a model, like we see in those photographs.

 

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Guillermo Checa, un activista con músculo

Uno de sus lugares favoritos para entrenar es en las montañas (Todas las fotografías proporcionadas por Guillermo Checa).

 

Pasión, conocimiento, planes claros. Pero también un excelente estado físico. Muchos activistas creen que solo basta saber hablar y saber crear. Eso es importante; pero, ¿de dónde pueden sacar toda la vitalidad que requiere ese trabajo?

 

Guillermo Checa dedica buena parte de su tiempo libre a forestar todos los espacios libres de la ciudad de Piura, en Perú: “el trabajo de sembrar es pesado, requiere mucho esfuerzo físico”, afirma. Por eso, también dedica parte de su tiempo a la musculación.

 

“Cuando salgo a sembrar, tengo que trabajar con una pala, mover tierra, cargar costales y, encima, soportar el sol”, explica. Es allí cuando la musculación lo ayuda para tener potencia, flexibilidad y una mejor respuesta a las condiciones de un clima tan adverso como el de Piura, donde las máximas pueden subir hasta los 38 grados Celsius de temperatura.

 

Checa lidera un grupo de voluntarios llamado Sembrando Vidas. Como su nombre lo dice, su trabajo es la forestación y la reforestación usando especies nativas del departamento de Piura.

 

Además, Guillermo es un ávido lector, un coleccionista de obras de arte y se le considera uno de los nuevos líderes dentro de su comunidad. Y cree que esto es apenas el inicio de su vida pública. Ah,también se da tiempo para trabajar como modelo, como lo vemos en estas fotografías.

 

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Freddy Pozo’s 7 big challenges

This athlete reveals what made him to hold on a sport career despite the obstacles.

 

 

All photographs provided by Freddy Pozo.

 

Freddy Daniel Pozo Guerrero was born in Piura City, Peru, on October 7^th, 1982.  When he still studied at San Miguel School, in this city, he premiered as an athlete in 1994 School Games. He was recruited because of his talent into the so-called Achievement Poles promoted by Cuban trainers.

 

In 1997, he classified to a Peruvian Northern tournament. He got a place that same year for a nationwide’s else.

 

Since 1999, he began to train with Jose Bonilla Cortez. The next year, he won marathons in Piura City, Trujillo (both in Peru), and Macará (Ecuador). His achievement as a top athlete allowed him to enter directly the university in Trujillo, in 2001, where he highlighted in the 5K, 10K pedestrian tests, while he got high scores  in lane – 800 meters, 1500 meters tests.

 

When his sport career was rising, the first difficulty came in. An injury forced him to break it all. He lost the scholarship.

 

He had to return to Piura where he entered another university. His body seemed to react again as much as he was an athletics university champion between 2005 and 2007. One of his major achievements was winning in Cuenca (Ecuador) amid his category.  He covered 44.4 miles  in 6 hours.

 

Despite he was the Best Piurano in Piura’s Half Marathon, he decided to leave the sport and focus in his studies in 2008. Then, he faced his second big difficulty. He looked for sponsors but no one granted him. “Sports are not profitable because you have  to train 6 daily hours,” he tells. Aside the time, he might invest in feeding and supplements. There was no money.

 

This decision carried him a third difficulty. Freddy is 5.5 feet. In 2008, he was 123 lbs. Breaking suddenly made him to increase 88 lbs, slightly .

 

A fourth difficulty returned him to athletics but not in a competitive level. His mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. In the beginning, she survived it, and the physical activity was part of the treatment. Freddy turned her coach.

 

He lived a fifth difficulty with his mother. An apparent medical negligence caused her to pass away in 2019.

 

Freddy sheltered in the sport. He went out running in the mornings, he went to the gym at nights, beginning himself in Olympic discipline – powerlifting, very different to bodybuilding, because the first one addresses to hold on a weight in the air the most time in the less number of moves as possible, the second one basically addresses to model the muscles.

 

“Many people remembered me from my time as an athlete,” Freddy comments.

 

It was when the sixth difficulty came in. Somebody used a pesticide to poison one of his colleagues. Somehow, Freddy got poisoned. His central nervous system was under attack causing him a temporary paralysis that has turned a fibromyalgia –defined by Mayo Clinic as generalized muscular pain and sensitiveness—through the years.

 

In freddy’s case, it turned him off some flexibility. As the physical therapies were very expensive, he had to learn applying them. Even, he opened a specialized center but he might close it because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we have the seventh difficulty.

 

During the lockdown, he studied handball and volleyball which he graduated as a technician. The interesting is he never has done any of them in his lifetime. “I’m a little self-taught,” he affirms. “What I have learned was by my own.”

 

Up to this date, Freddy Pozo coaches handball teams in sub-13 and sub-17 categories, he’s 135 lbs, he believes the sport helped him to overcome every difficulty. It rejuvenated him,even: “The training and the lifestyle make me looking like a 27-year-old dude,” he assures.

 

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