Required certification

A proposal to face the informality on physical training.

 

We’ve already spoke up about the apparent lack of control on the manners how the pupils are treated at the gyms of Piura. From a supervision absence in the training methodology to the anabolic-steroids trafficking, passing through an adequate psychological advisory, the issue did not interest to the correspondent authorities.

 

Meanwhile, men and women use the service ignoring if the investment they do will bring them some benefit to their life or it won’t. The appearance of a franchise in the cities of Piura and Sullana  have introduced a service that all the gyms doesn’t have – nutritionists. Although the consultations are included in the cost of the membership, this is over the most can pay.

 

A way to face the problem is the certification of trainers, but a search we did to have an interview that allows us to put this query in perspective with somebody had no results. In the other hand, the Piura Bodybuilding Federation did have summoned to specialized trainings with certification, but it’s ignored if there is an evaluation that allow to know if the learned in those courses is applied and how.

 

Despite, Piura has turned a place of this sport, and every March, it’s organized the Mister and Miss Piura contests to award the people who based on their word, and some –extra—help, have reached aesthetics and plasticity, although not necessarily good health.

 

The united, the stronger

César Campos was chosen as 2011 Mister Piura after years of continuous work for having a recognizement in bodybuilding. During the national phase –Mister Peru—he reached the fourth place in the general classification. Since 2007, Campos Works in a known gymnasium at Piura Downtown, after doing it since he was 20 in his native Sullana.

 

Before he moved looking for a better professional future, he was committed to create a bodybuilding federation in Sullana. His main concern was the lack of certification for trainers at that town. Neither the authorities, neither his most colleagues supported him because they didn’t understand the importance of the process or simple commercial envy. Join the competence and becoming one only front to demand a better labor treatment too was not well seen by the Sullana’s mastership.

 

The gymnasium where he worked in Sullana was part of the franchise that was introducing new practices in the way how the pupils are treated. Once upon a good time, we tried to have an interview with the trainer in charge to explore this issue, but we got no answer.

 

Yes, but…

This was not a difficult to talk extraofficially to other trainers. The most of them recognize that the certification and professionalization of their jobs is necessary, but very few have the money to invest in the courses, or their gyms are not interested in granting them, when the benefit is for the own business.

 

And obviously, there are who have no interest in studying and certifying because they are trainers due to labor chances. This means if they get a better job, they will quit in the long term. In Bellavista, Sullana, there is a dude who eventually works as a trainer at a downtown gymnasium. Unlike his most colleagues, he has Physical Education official pedagogycal studies, but his goal is not staying to work there but to have a job at some school. The reason why he accepted the job was to pay his studies.

 

Butt, analyzing well the issue, could this be a choice to get an official certification? In other countries (like Spain) and Lima, this is a key requirement to work not only at gyms but everywhere that requires to monitor the physical activities of people, no matter their age.

 

Before it turns a public health problem, authorities, store operators, trainers, and pupils should consider the need to assume this issue for the good of community. So, the physical activity will be really constructive and it will develop adequately one of our dimensions as human beings. The indifference to the issue won’t bring positive consequences.

 

High adventure on wheels

I re-discovered the pleasure to look like good

By Carlos Porro

Special to ChulucanasGym.

I worked out many years ago much motivated, strong, passionate. However, the motivation missed and I left the wonderful world of exercise. I accostumed the bad habits turned me into its slave.

So, it was when I decided to be normal. I ate out of my time or sometimes I didn’t eat neither, let’snot speaking about my bedtime, I went overnight daily. Fat never lacked, the terrible fast food. The alcohol never lacked in my ‘glorious’ normal life.

I woke up tired everyday, headache, sick. The gastritis was advancing as much as my great life advanced. I thought my body improved at a some moment itself. I was waiting for that ‘big miracle’ (in other words, immersing me into the mediocrity of something falls me down from the sky).

I was too sank into my normal life, what I was not hoping to leave out, because I enjoyed to disobey the needs of my body, I felt pleasure to know I would be “approved” by everybody. But upon a day, I decided to change by the invitation of my great friend David Saldarriaga Noel, who ever helps me to be better.

Everything was a challenge to me. From eating healthy to sleeping at my time due to insomnia, getting away the alcohol. Nothing was easy. However, I started to progress, I already felt no pain, I felt pleasure to see my progress, these little trials in context were what defined my advance (whether tiny or huge), I was proud of my changes. Later, I reminded the power of perseverance. I was becoming disciplined not thinking about, coming back to this wonderful world.

At the same time, I was tired because I never had done functional exercise, I was following up the routines everyday, until the Super Online Challenge event  happened, which I felt very comfortable because everyone looked for the same like me – a better physical as well as mental version, a life out of the normal, a life out of the stress, a life made fit to me.

The motivation shared in the group is unique. It feels that joint power that motivates you to follow “the extra mile.” They helped me to change my habits avoiding to be one of these normal people. That’s about to follow forward, whether few, whether regular. I’m advancing, it’s my goal line, they’re my dreams, I set it up well and I did not give up.  These are the results of not giving up!

The photos on this entry are courtesy of Carlos Porro.

A pro runner and his pupils reach goals amid the lockdown

Consuelo Yarlequé is 61 years old and until May 1^st, 2020, she was 69 kilos or 152 pounds. It was not good news – she was type-1 obesity. That same day she started up a training & feeding plan. Three weeks later, during her evaluation, she noticed she has lost… 9 pounds! “I’m happy of the results,” the lady affirms. “Through all years of experience I’m running, I never had lost so much weight.”

Consuelo and other people in Piura, Chiclayo, Cajamarca, and Lima (Peru) have joined an online project called Entrenamiento Online elite (Online Elite Training, or EO as its acronyme in Spanish) powered by the marathon runner Jesús Ademir Sosa Valdiviezo, who is also a sports coach and promoter. There are plans for the initiative to expand to Spain.

The EO premise comes from the cloistering sensation and the stress provocated by the pandemic fact what many times impact on the body, and that does not bring benefits to health. The project looks for helping the people with the best online sports advisory, on live training, physical activity programs designed to provide relaxation, resistance, muscular power, and flexibility. It also provides an evaluation  for high-performance feeding and all tips you need to have a healthy life.

“Most people want to keep fit and have a healthy lifestyle, so I’ve created entrenamiento Online Elite interested to reach the folks who don’t go to a gym regularily, because they don’t have time or their daily jobs don’t allow to do a routine for keeping fit and also due to the gyms won’t open this year because they are the main Covid-19 infection hotspots,” Jesús Sosa sustained.

The reknown runner referred this has been a great opportunity: “This lockdown is very hard for everybody, however we also know  it’s a pretty good opportunity to grow, feel, dream of… To me, this crisis has been the opportunity to start up this project I was postponing so many times and the truth is that I’m very happy to contribute positively in the life of persons.”

“I want you to know of the physical activity importance as healthy habit for avoiding the sedentarism, and like an essential factor to fight the stress generated by the social isolating situation because of Covid-19,” he added.

How the Online elite Training works on

The live training is from Monday to Friday at 8:30 pm. (0130 GMT) on a Facebook private group. Sosa thinks it’s a comfortable time for everybody because someones study and others work, so the classes keep recorded and they can train later by watching the live webcasting at the time they prefer.

The athlete noticed that, for example, there are nurses during the online training, and sometimes they , when having an overnight turn, train the next day, but they don’t leave to complete their routine. And other guys who also study, if they struck on the schedule, train later the same way. The idea is not losing the continuity. All the pupuls are followed up by WhatsApp according to their goal, whether increasing muscular mass, decreasing fat index, or simply keeping healthy.

“I’d invite all the people who have the wish to start a healthy life to join this Online Elite Training project,” Jesús Sosa manifested. “Like a pro, I guarantee good results.” For more information, you can contact directly to Jesús Sosa, go to the Online Elite Training (in Spanish), or write him an e-mail.

Who is Jesús Sosa?

The Catacaos, Peru-based marathon runner, sports promoter and coach (certified by Peruvian Institute of Sports) is a Bachelor in Accountability and Financial Sciences for National University of Piura. He’s worked for Catacaos and La Arena Districts Municipalities, both in Piura Province. He speaks intermediate-level english, by the way.

Jesús is ripped. He’s 5.7 inches, 154 pounds, 10½ in shoes (9½ iin U.K, 44 in the rest of Europe).  In every competition he has participated, he reached one of the 10 first places. His up-to-date personal records (time per distance)are:

• 5 km or 3,1 mi: 16 min 15 sec.
• 10 km or 6,2 mi: 33 min 
• 21 km 97 m or 13.11 mi (half-marathon): 1 h 15 min
• 42 km 195 m or 26.18 mi (marathon): 2 h 38 min

Coming up next, all and each one of his sport achievements what this guy, his family, his supporters and contacts, his city, and the whole region are proud of.

• 04/07/2019: 1st place in National Triathlon Championship – Cathegory Posts, Peru.
• 02/14/2019: 1st place in posts, Colan, Peru (2019).
• 01/29/2019: 8^th place in Miami Marathon, Fla.
• 01/31/2018: 2nd Best Ranked Piura-native in Piura City Half Marathon, Peru.
• 11/25/2018: 3rd place in 5K Race for the National Police of Peru’s Anniversary.
• 11/10/2018: 1st place in Máncora Triathlon – Cathegory Posts, Peru.
• 09/08/2018: 3rd place in 8K, Peruvian Institute of Sports.
• 09/01/2018: 1st place in Punta Sal Triathlon – Cathegory Posts, Peru.
• 10/14/2018: 1st place in Los ejidos Triathlon – Cathegory Posts, Piura City, Peru.
• 07/02/2018: 1st place in Pacasmayo International Marathon, Peru.
• 06/03/2018: 2nd place in Chiclayo City’s Half-Marathon, Peru
• 05/20/2018: 11th place in Movistar 42K Marathon 2018 (among more than 20,000 participants), Lima City, Peru.
• 04/29/2018: 1^st place in 8K, Chiclayo City 183^rd Anniversary, Peru.
• 02/10/2018: 1^st place in posts, 17^th Triathlon in Colan, Peru, homage to Peruvian Navy.
• 01/28/2018: 11^th place in Miami Marathon, Fla. (2018)
• 12/09/2017: 1st place in 7K, Montelima Race.
• 12/02/2017: 1^st place in Peru’s National Police 5K Race.
• 11/26/2017: 1st place in Ferreycorp 4K Pedestrian Race.
• 11/12/2017: 1^st place in Los Tallanes Pedestrian Race, Sullana Anniversary, Peru.
• 09/16/2017: 1^st place in Punta Sal Triathlon, Peru – Cathegory Posts (2017).
• 07/23/2017: 2^nd place in 8K, Peruvian Institute of Sports, Trujillo, Peru.
• 07/02/2017: 1^st place in Pacasmayo 42K International Marathon, Peru (2017).
• 06/18/2017: 1^st place in Catacaos 7K Race, Peru (2017).
• 05/21/2017: 10^th place in Adidas 42K Marathon, Lima City, Peru.
• Classified, Miami Marathon, Fla. (2017)
• Classified, Boston Marathon, Mass. (2017)
• Classified, New York City Marathon, NY (2017).
• 02/14/2017: 1st place in Colán Triathlon – Cathegory Posts, Peru (2017).
• 07/09/2016: 1st place in Vías Integradoras Marathon.
• 07/03/2016: 1st place in 21K, Pacasmayo International Marathon, Peru.
• 06/25/2016: 1^st place in 6K, Udep EcoChallenge, Piura City, Peru.
• 06/12/2016: 1^st place in 8K, Peruvian Institute of Spors, Piura City, Peru.
• 04/15/2016: 15^th place in 42K, Adidas Marathon, Lima City, Peru (among 15,000 competitors).
• 12/31/2015: 9^th place in San Silvestre International Race, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• 07/05/2015: 1st place in 42K, Pacasmayo International Marathon, Peru.
• 05/16/2015: 1st place in 5K, Piura Open Race, Piura City, Peru.
• Classified, San Silvestre International Race, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015).
• 02/07/2015: 1^st place in 15K, Querecotillo, Peru.
• 04/28/2015: 1^st place in 21K, Chiclayo Half-Marathon, Peru.
• 04/18/2015: 1^st place in Piura For Life Race, Piura City, Peru.
• 08/12/2014: 1st place in 5K, Pacasmayo Marathon, Peru.
• 05/31/2014: 9th place, Energizer Night Race, Lima City, Peru.
• 05/18/2014: 16^th place in 42K, Adidas Marathon, Lima City, Peru (among 15,000 competitors).
• 03/30/2014: 2nd place in Chasquis Race, Athletism League of Piura, Peru.
• 07/07/2013: 2nd place in 10K, Pacasmayo International Marathon, Peru.
• 06/30/2013: 1^st place in 5K, Country Club Olympics, Piura City, Peru.
• 06/23/2013: 2nd place in 6K, Olympic Day, Piura City, Peru.
• 05/04/2013: 10^th place in Energizer Race, Lima City, Peru (among 10,000 participants).
• 03/09/2013: 1st place in 5K, Talara, Peru.
• 02/17/2013: 1^st place in 5K, Colán Triathlon, Peru.
• 12/31/2012: 1^st place in Piura Half-Marathon – Cathegory Young, Piura City, Peru. Best Piura-native.
• 10/05/2012: 1^st place in university Olympics, Piura City, Peru.
• Best Piura-native 2011.

Remember that you can contac Jesús on his Facebook personal account, his proffessional fanpage, you can join his race group, and you can follow his stories on Instagram.

The photos of this entry were provided by Jesús Sosa.

A bodybuilding-based cult?

By ChulucanasGym

VISITOR’S DISCRETION ADVISED

The story is not probably new., but who tell it did look for  picturing it as featured on this post. It’s about the young farmer male, who doesn’t find opportunities to develop in his environment and decides to migrate to the big city. But instead finding progress, he finds much obstacles and multiple temptations  those put him in the edge of social risk, mainly crime and drug addiction.

Then, a solidarian hand ddiscovers him at an eventual job that only provides him the necessary to survive, and realizes he has a potential to launch a career in bodybuilding. It opens him the doors of a gymnasium, the Young male wonders about the new world revealed to him and takes the opportunity. He begins to work out, grows up physically, changes his mind from conformism to competitiveness, feels motivated to contest, and eventually gets little-but-significant triumphs.

Itt’s evident the contrast between a life without goals and what seems to be the beginning of a career that promises achievements, and it could be the story of your own life. But the element that nobody would think is that the story were pitched to some magazines or websites specialized in bodybuilding, instead, it could have a religious use, rather. Yes, themuscular development of a bodybuilder becomes to use for enhancing a very little cult considering its followers, but what uses an ancestral symbology.

It happens in Jamaica, where the Church of Kyrios Christ, that proposes a big influence of the African culture in the three big religions of humankind, but what became invisible because of apparent race factors, has used the power of bodybuilding to make popular the cult for one of its orishas, a kind of demigods, named Olorun. The Church, which theology is based upon youruba  cults, also proposes the reinvindication of the African-descendant people into the world’s history, and it performs a ceremony every year when it renacts that orisha’s myth.

According to its parishioners, Olorun was made a slave during the colonial trafficking started in 16^th century (beautiful literary works have born from that time in the Americas). Once he lived at the barracks  of an estate located in the actual Chalacalá Town, near Sullana City, Peru, the orisha was a rebel mood, so the estate-owner used to punish by leaving naked and wearing a fetter with chains to humiliate to him, but Olorun, calling out divine forces, took the bold piece of metal with his hands and broke up by his own power.

A very ancient tactic

Independently this event was whether historically true or not, it’s enacted during this ceremony in Jamaica with the evident purpose that the parishioners not to forget about it, so reaffirming the cult values. And according to the Church, it looks for a model, usually Colombian or Jamaican, every year to perform the Olorun role, something that, as the organization’s leaders say, is accepted as a high honor by the chosen actor.

The idea of taking a real human being to remember or invoke an abstract reference or a belief is an oldest resource as  the art and culture of humankind. In Classic Greece, the Olympics’ winners used to be featured as the models for the statues of gods (and goddesses, because there were also  contests for women), and one of the philosophic principles at the ancient gymnasiums stated that the perfection of human shape was the closest way to look like a god or a goddess.

And that health-art-religion relationship has kept along the time, maybe hidden until the Renaissance (15^th century), but present up to today. Iff not, look around slowly when you go to the gym and have your own conclusions.

Good or bad?

So, only if the bodybuilder is aware he is actually training. It could be an interesting strategy  to reach constance, one of the values muchly hardworking to grow. But if the bodybuilder cannot take off the character of god or demigod, or celebrity, or famous person, or popular referent, it will be necessary professionalassistance with pairs advisory.

In this sense, the work of the trainer is crucial. It must not be reduced to care the athlete for doing the movement correctly, or complete the required reps or sets. He also has to take time to explore the psychology  of his pupil so giving him  the right support, and knowing to motivate him for continuing to overcome. Maybe, it’s not necessary to say him that he has to look like a god, but it’s important to feedback the goals  both proposed since the training began, and maybe this is one of the keywords – goals.

About the rest, the use of the religion to advocate a healthy lifestyle, only done with awareness and not falling into the fanatism, could result very positive. Many ancestral religions have very specific habits about feeding, for example, those have been incorporated as diet schemes accepted by international organisms, but stressing the basis of the variety and the balance.

And about the art-bodybuilding relationship, we think it’s an excellent combination only provided the bodybuilder assumes his artist stage as a dimension to set free in the whole sense of the expression, not like an obsession many times badly directed by some producers or career managers, who could be thinking the things more of audience or incomes matters. Like the food, everything in the right balance will be ever positive.

Shive Roy is featured as the model of this post. Photographs provided by Dwight Foster.

Do you have a similar story to share? Let us know it at chulucanasgym@gmail.com, our Twitter account, or using the comment box below.

Fundraising your sports career

11 advices to move among the public, the media and the sponsors.
By ChulucanasGym Team

A good sportsperson doesn't get an optimal performance only. Almost inmediatly, gets public recognizement for the goals, the personality or a combination of both.  And that's key when you look for funding your sports career.

Although many have been prepared to defeat their own physical and mental limits for reaching excellence (what is gotten the most of times), they suffer big defeats when managing their public image. The explanation is very simple: almost nobody prepares you to face the people.

At an abundant information age, getting yourself out the public discussion is committing suicide, especially if you're beginning your career, for a simple reason: if nobody knows you exist, nobody will have you in mind.

One of the more frequent difficulties that most sportspersons passing through much in Peru is funding their training, trips and competitions. The difficult increases if your sport or discipline is few popular, no matter how many medals you receive. If you need to have a sponsorship, you have to make public.

The same way you practice your sport, opening your path amid the so-called information society needs to learn good every move, repeating consciously until perfectioning it, and knowing when to use right. In other words, you require a strategy, an accurate guide and a system allowing you how much you're going forward or not.

Coming up, some practical advices for your fight to a sponsorship and public recognizement to be so triumphant as your place or medals as well.

1. Use your social media intelligently
The first place where a potential sponsor is going to look for you are your social media accounts. Generally, will want to know how many people follow you, how you are announcing your goals, what they are responsing on you, and how you are highlighting from other people in your same sport or discipline.

Think twice before posting anything. Ask yourself what effect it could create in your followers and who could sponsor you as well. 

If you're doubting about what, when and how to post, ask a reliable media proffessional (our parent website can offer advice on Facebook). 

Never be careless about technical details as a photo & video quality, text grammar as well. Everything enters through the eye. 

Oh! Never and never post something when you're angry. It's possible you have to sorry or even apologyze as well because of an overreaction or an exageration.

2. Be unique
Remember all the cats are equal at night unless just one decide to look like quite different. No matter if 100 people practice your same sport or discipline, work hard not to be similar like anyone else, fin your own identity, develop it, show it. 

It's better they imitate you instead of you imitate them. "Keeping your essence is key for sculpting the path to the objective you've chosen," Piura-based psychologist Bryan Luzuriaga recommends.

Being unique may ave many differences, but in your case, bet to be  a possitive newsmaker in your sport or discipline. Become your name an excellence, personality and transcendance brand in your favor and favoring what you do.

Don't pretend to be who you're not. Be yourself. This doesn't mean to hold your defaults but potentiate your advantages. 

If you're stil doubting about that, your true friends (who say you bad and good things directly) could advise  and help you, or a mental health advisor could be helpful.

3. It's worthy to be honest
One of the most stupid things somebody does in public and for the public is lying. At a time when it's easier to verify everything you say, just a lie is necessary to bring down all your career, even having you out of rule very serious as happened to many sportspersons.

Be who you really are, not most not less but the right. And that 'right' is what you must outprint       on everybody.

ever update your sports resumé, be aware the data you put it on can be verifiable. If it's not possible to verify, don't put it on. Some coaches can help you to customize your information.

4. Run away who flatteron you... who denigrate on you too
If cheers can get us oproud, insult can hurt us psychologically. The right is leaving apart, holding the balance at least.

If you're congratulated or rejected, ever say 'thanks'  and follow up your life. Never argue, don't let you be mistreated. But ever enjoy a triumph's joy keeping on your feet when the chance gets really good.

Ever hold a smile on your face - it's a lethal weapong against discouragement, it's an antidote against conceit.

5. Keep your lane (no matter others')
Although your sport career is actually opinable as well the career of others you follow, know, or face to , try your opinion keeps in terms like "I think it's OK", "I think it's bad", "I think it can  be improved", or "go up for better".

Never use your right to opine for talking awfully about another people. Although that puts you on the spotlight (so publicity), it also automatically tag you as 'untrustable'.

"It's important having tolerance to frustration because people will remind you to speak out criticizing the good or the bad you do," psychologist Bryan Luzuriaga remarks.

If you don't like a person or you're having an argue or a scrub, keep it inside you or process it with a mental health advisor, but never and never express it in public or tell it face-to-face respectfully, instead.

"If we learn to control our temperament, we'll ride the bull easily," psychologist Luzuriaga points in.

If somebody talks badly on you, don't response in the same terms and mean. There are usually another much effective mechanisms including legal, what can put things right... and even  give you some extra money.

6. You decide if you wanna be a sex-symbol
Doing sports means keeping fit, keeping fit means having an appeal, having an appeal means envy, admiration or desire. Feeding or discouraging  people's desires is something you control, so even you're not looking for that, never underestimate your own potential for becoming a sex-symbol.

The best way to have an appeal and surviving untroubled is assuming it as the most natural thing in the world, not fearing muchly that seems that everybody overwhelms you neither much vanity that you become your own sketch.

As much as you have a natural, healthy relationship to your own body, being a sex-symbol is going to keep in the background. If you have problems about this issue, it's ghood to visit a 
mental health advisor, but this picture can be very useful for you: you are who sculpt your own masterpiece, only who reach mastership are who go forever. Don't be afraid to transcend.

7. Do a nude if you want, but be careful about the impact
A consequence about the prior advice is that your physical development can also deserve your offers to pose nude partially or totally. Let's put on the spot removing taboo - many sportspersons receive regarding proposals many times.

Is that good or bad? Answer: it's relative. Why? Because it depends just on you and it should depend only on you to accept or reject those offers.

Nobody else has right on your body but you, so you also have the control about saying Yes or No.

If you say No, nothing happens, you don't lose points (perhaps money), the world won't end neither.

If you accept, you have to measure very good the consequences of your decision, then the response and attitude you'll adopt when releasing to public opinion. As people's education is diffferent, you'll find someones indifferent, someones amazed, someones angry.

Remember that doing a nude is legal only when you're legal age.

Something useful for you is sharing the proposal to a person you trust so much (open-minded too)  who helps your to analyze the possitive and the negative without overreaction. The final decision is yours, you're responsible about it.

Ask your coach or federation if there are written, clear rules those don't allow yo to do a nude.

8. If you are a prostitute, your health and integrity are on top risk
In places like Peru, where it's difficult to live only practicing sports (unless you're a pro soccer player), most sportspersons have to get a job for living and funding their career. In some cases, who have an entrepreneur spirit create their own job positions and can combine them to their career succesfully, even coaching  more sportspersons.

who don't fit the last or don't have enough money could be in prostitution for paying their bills, we mean receiving any payment in exchange of having sex with one or more persons. 

Discounting moral assumptions, getting this kind of job has some legal requirements: you must be legal age, you must follow a strict medical control because you're exposed to sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS as well, conditions uncovered by any health insurance.

If you're fundraising your career by offering sex, you should learn all the procedures to prevent you or your client can be infected. You can request for this information as a free & confidential advisory at all Peru's public health centers, where you inclusive can be provided with protection methods. 

Be careful about who offer you to recruit in agencies or bring you out another places, or pay you big money amounts. Many times,you can become a human trafficking victim, a crime under international enforcement. Get informed about, don't put your career in risk.

You should keep in mind that if you become popular but you were in prostitution, somebody could make it public or face it to you directly (the same, of course). It's actually an evident double moral, but it is also a possibility. Then, if you were gutsy to be into that stuff, you also have to build a strong attitude for getting on your feet, knowing how to response the blames even if they're hard.

If you're not ready to face what they say, the best will be you say a round No when you are solicitated for the first time - No means No.

 
9. everything written, nothing spoken
What's the difference between a sponsorship offer and a formal sponsorship offer?The first one is ever said but never complied and there's no way to demand it beyond the frienly field because the wind blows the words. The second usually is a printed or electronic written offer addressed to you, where it's specified what is requested from you and what you receive in exchange.

Say 'thanks' to first ones, the second ones need you take some time  to read them, study them, and even write an also-written counteroffer so you pass to something called negotiation.

Warning! This game consists in knowing to gain and give, it's not common you get the perfect deal the first time. Then, the best will be your first negotiation exercises be professionally advised by someone reliable - lawyers are perfect for this point.

Yes, you maybe have to invest on your lawyer but see it this way: there will be more expensive in the future when you realise what you considered as a benefit, harm you instead.

File all the offers you receive, the counteroffers you do, contracts you sign on (inclusive draft versions), payment tickets... actually, every document that proves a negotiation.

In the beginning, you also have to be your own accountant. You'll have to register every cent you receive and explain the way how you manage or use it. No matter nobody is claiming you about your accountability - it eases your control.

If the money you receive comes from a donation, sponsorship or prize, that control could save lots of troubles in the future in case the funs source be illegal.

Yes, it's tricky but it's a discipline you have to workout too.

10. Use the media in your favor
This is the funny part of every sportperson who wants to get recognizement for getting a sponsorship: uses to run away the media. Do you have an idea about what enterprises can put closer to the public, give certain  publicity and reach the ones what can fund your career?

When you see a microphone, a camera or an audiorecorder, don't run away but get close, introduce yourself, say what your assets are, answer clear and serene, try to identify where your charisma is, connect to the audiences, ... don't forget turning on and keeping charged your mobile in case somebody calls at you for helping or sponsoring.

Be proactive, don't wait for the media to discover you. Knock its door so confident. Don't forget the media like a lot the outstanding stories, so keeping in mind all what we advised you until this line, order your ideas so any editor or journalist can't give up to tell your story when you tell it. 

Remember that in ChulucanasGym we are looking for stories like yours (no matter if you don't speak Spanish), we advise about how to make it more attractive, and we publish it for the world knows you exist. eventually, we can connect to friends in other media we know they'll want to cover on you too.

Learn to hol this kind of professional relationship because if the media is trustable, makes you trustable.

If the media publishes on you, post it as much as you can on your social media, file all media excerpts in a folder which you use everytime you knock the door on the sponsors.  as they use to work as advertising clients on the media, the chance to cross-check the data reliability is inmediate.

In some cases, if you want to invest much more, bet on so-called 'books', those use to be advised and produced by advertising agencies. 

11. Never refuse to keep humble
If somebody advised once that to be the most important among everybody you have to serve everybody, obbey. 

As higher as you climb up, keep your feet anchored to the soil, never forget how you started, because of who you were going up, what works and sacrifices you might took, even what mistakes and hits you had.

Give thanks on the good and the bad you have, share your experience to other people ever when you're required.  You don't know how many can get inspired by your example and change their lives!  Inclussive, they can save them because of you. Are you clear about that?

If you have the chance, give back a portion about you got to any organization that is working to solve a social problem. Don't be happy about donating money or supplies but  be motivated to participate actively to solve those issues.

Don't wait until the life slaps on you to understand why you have to connect with the humankind. If you can give the first step, go ahead. Posting it? Analyze it carefully. If that helps a problem to be solved , it's an option to have in mind. 

For more specific questions, write us down at chulucanasgym@gmail.com