My Profile – Ronny Rondón

My change began that afternoon when I saw myself in the mirror across the shower.

 

I’m Ronny José Rondón Acosta, a fitness trainer, son of Juan José Rondón Tovar and Nely Josefina Acosta Vallejo. I was born in Cumaná, Venezuela, in 1989.

 

The big change I made into my life happened at 18 years old, but before, I want you think on this quote by the Classic Greek philosopher Socrates (470 BC to 399 BC(: “a life without exam is not worthy to be lived.” Join me up next to understand how it applied me.

 

In 2007, I graduated as Sciences Bachelor from José Castro Machado Lyceum, and I didn’t only bring good scores since my childhood – the overweight came me disturbing the life constantly. In fact, I was one of these three Venezuelans over or above a healthy weight. I’m 5’6 feet, I was 212 lbs. To make you an idea, I only wore 12-size pants and my shirts had to be XL-size.

 

According to Mayo Clinic, “the obesity is a complex disease that consists in having  an excessive body fat amount.” It adds it’s not only about an aesthetic issue. In the other hand, the overweight second voice for Oxford Dictionary is simply “The weight excess of a person or an animal.”  It was not so simple for me.

 

When you have obesity, your body image often is negative or distorted compared to the reality. You feel bad, you suffer, and you even feel the society rejects you. In this point, it’s convenient we work on and re-adapt to release that insatisfaction on our body, but let’s continue with my experience.

 

I grew up at my mother-grandparents’ house. Once upon an afternoon, I entered the bathroom just before getting to the yard. I saw my body in the mirror while I took a shower. Right there, inside that room, I sweared myself I’d never be fat again.

 

I decided to enter a gymnasium that same day. I got one of the best fitness female trainers who was encouraging me to work out and having the body I get now, that I look like proud. Today, I wear M-8-size shirts due to I have got a wide back, and my pants are  8-size.

 

As I said in the beginning, I’m a fitness trainer. Today, I have female pupils who started like me, with obesity. Time later, they look like gorgeous.

 

When I look back, and specifically that afternoon when my image reflected in that mirror while I was taking a shower, and I compare to actual time, I overall feel pride and I feel this is just one of the first goals I have got in my life. I still have much land to conquer but I hope to tell you in other entry. Will you join me again?

Contact Ronny Rondón | Let’s talk on X | chulucanasgym@gmail.com

  

Tips before your retirement

If you leave to work out or compete for the lifetime, don’t slam on the break – program how to manage the transition.

 

Although it seems, nothing’s eternal, and for some bodybuilders and athletes this means they decide to stop their training somewhen in their lives whether to hold the body shape or being prepared for a competition.

Almost never it’s Good news but the reasons bringing them to choose that must be respected, accompanied whether by a cheering message or the simple fact of being beside as the same times of achievement, or even glory,  as much as possible

However, it’s not about stopping and staying in a dead point neither like it would be about a finished playing. Actually, it’s about a transition. There are some details you must be aware to do that in the best possible way – coming next, some helpful tips.

 

Design and apply a plan what doesn’t put your health in risk

When you train constantly, and much more if that’s about a competition, the metabolism trends to modify naturally for having the best results – the body stands programmed by the next charge of activity. If the training stops suddenly, the body Will last assimilating it, it will continue to hold an optimized metabolism for the muscle to grow and getting ripped.

It’s almost like the inertia effect which an object trends to continue its movement although the power causing it has ceased. That movement is called potential energy. The trick in the transition time from training to leave training consists in the process goes doing progressively less intense.

As you set up little goals to grow weekly, monthly, now you will have to do it reverse in the same time lapses so the slowing-down doesn’t cause injuries to your health. For example, heart, kidney failure, sudden increase of body fat, digestive problems, and especially overweight and even obesity.

Ask a specialized medical doctor to design a slowing-down plan for your training rhythm and metabolism that includes you, follow it down .with rigor including the periodic visits to evaluate results. Remember that worked other person does not necessarily will work with you because every organism reacts within its own particularity. The same happened when when you started to work out.

 

Design and apply a plan for your professional or commercial future

The mandatory question is what you will do when you leave working out and contesting. If your answer is you have no idea, this is a good time to think seriously about the issue, especially if you are a professional bodybuilder or athlete and your job was basically dedicating to your discipline.

If you have saved money and you want to invest it in some business that makes you profits, have a careful advice with somebody who has proven experience in personal finance. If you want to run a gymnasium (or if you already own one), assure the business model allows you to control every step and every cent to use (“the master’s eye makes the horse,” the quote says).

If you’ve studied for a career and you wish to practice it after your retirement, don’t wait until your training’s finale to start to look for a job. Send your resumes since before so you get engaged in the less possible time. Even if you want to work freelance, its ever good to have a connections network those turn your new clients.

Using your legacy as athlete or bodybuilder adds points to get a job that has nothing to do with the sports world? Yes! Many forms admit you to include these facts and many employers or headhunters are beginning to rank it positively because we trend to be more competitive, especially at the time to assume new challenges. Then, the upcoming later could be as favorable for you as what you had to leave behind.

 

Check here for the next 3 tips. You can also get more advice on our Twitter account and chulucanasgym@gmail.com 

The right weight

Grandma was reasonable in everything but this.

 

It’s not a game. Obesity has begun to charge very expense bills to our communities. Only in Piura Department, the medical statistics establish it is the first cause of heart diseases (stroke, arteriosclerosis) and diabetes. In fact, it occupies the second place across Peru in this condition prevalence, that treated out of time can be mortal.

 

The diet and the lack of physical activity are the recurrent causes, according to specialists. The usual food is ever made of rice, tubers, and fried or boiled meat and much spices, and beverages with much sugar and colorants that have replaced to the natural juices and refreshes.

 

Growing besides

In the other hand, the new lifestyle consists in spending long hours in front of the TV or the PC, many times interacting with other pairs virtually but forbidding spaces and moments of physical encounter. This frame is not supposed.

 

The medical doctors coincide that during the teenage, instead growing upside, we are growing besides. Also, they point out that the problem gets worse if we have haven a bad or deficient nutrition during our childhood, so we don’t gain enough height and the body trends to accumulate fat instead of mass.

 

The most optimistic medical forecast is that before 40 years old, many of us already will experience our first stroke or, at least, will have blood stream problems. And the problem is in rural and urban ccommunities, as well.

 

The lifeguard plan

There are actually ways to reverse the frame, and everything depends on a strong personal commitment with your health. Here we present you some useful ideas:

1. Eat according to your real energy requirement: Not all the people need the same wear, so a nutritionist (or specialist in nutriology) can advise us what we have to eat, how much quantity, what time, why and how to combine it in a healthy way.
2. Do exercise: World Health Organization suggests that, at least, 30 daily minutes at home, a park, or the gym, are ideal to improve all the body functions including the slow down of the cell aging.
3. Set your mind free: encourage yourself creatively to take out the stress by doing an activity that take your brain out of the routine, but that enriches it.
4. No vices: If you don’t find a way (or even if you have it clear), don’t run to the alcohol, the tobacco, the drugs, or something that generates you damages for your remaining lifetime. If you think it convenient, visit a mental health specialist for having a guide.
5. Try not to stick to the technology: It’s actually possible to live without it. It seems hard but what the advertising doesn’t say us is the continuous dependence to the electronic devices causes us sedentarism, so problems with our weight. The other part that the advertising doesn’t say us is that a kind of techno-addiction is developed.
6. Appreciate yourself: The key to be happy is loving because of who you are, not who you look like. But this doesn’t mean you uncare of yourself.
7. Choose a medical consultation: If the physical body has problems, or it doesn’t respond like it should, the best is looking for a medical doctor. The friends and relatives –unless they have a diploma in Medicine and be competent—can give ideas but not a professional opinion that can save our live. However, ever look for second and third recommendations to go to the right place.
8. Research and share: On the Internet, there is everything, and especially the information that will open you up a positive perspective to care your health. If you access those contents, study them, file them, discuss them, and share them with your people. Who knows – the fact that can improve the life of somebody else could come from you.

 

The model featured on this entry is André Verona and the photographs are © Marco Mejía.

 

High adventure on wheels

When musculation becomes unhealthy

Time of change

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.

It’s time you put in casting mode

At least in Peru, the Covid-19 infection is going to change muchly the culture about healthy lifestyles, and possibly to be the better. One of the measures the government has taken is body mass index (BMI) people equal or upper 40 may not work in person when the economy to reactivate because they are one of the most vulnerable human groups to the contagion.

The medical reason is simple: the virus leaves the lungsockets useless, the little bags  we have where oxygen feeds the blood allowing the functions of our body to work normally. When that vital gas scarces –a condition known hypoxia—our cells begin to weaken and even die, then they unchain oother health conditions which can shorten our life.

The diabetes and the cardio-vascular diseases also have to do much with obesity. Initially, the Peruvian government fit to the suggestion of World Health Organization about BMI people equal or upper 30, at the moment, were not abled to presential work, but a popular claim moved the mark up to 10 points.

Could your country or your boss take the same decisions? If we think it on the perspective of laboral risk, it’s a chance. Claiming could be a choice but i’ts the easiest choice. The alternative could be you don’t wait for the idea to turn a rule and take control of your own health. But many guys begin enthusiastic in the beginning and lose the motivation step by step.

Here is when our brain has to work to re-program first. Yes, we can. And although we are not endorsing you to take an image as a mirror, the current sanitarian situation does demand us to look for very inspiring references, and after much exploring, we find with the expectant attitude the models have. Yes, the guys you see looking like on the magazines, the posters, or the TV. They are ever ready for the next work, so all their effort is focused on the next casting.

Perhaps this same attitude is what you should adoptbut not falling into paranoiaor increasing your anxiety neither, so here we have a full recipe possibly useful for you very much. Easier, impossible.

Keep your body in shape

When a model has a casting, the first they are going to see is the physique, and that only is gotten with physical exercise, healthy feeding, enough and fixing rest. Remember you have to dedicate at least half-an-hour to work-out your physique, your feeding must cover all your energy need in the right balance, and your whole resting time really recharges in terms of alert and mood.

Then, you have to organize your lifefor accomplish each one of your activities and you must set real, verifiable goalsthose allow to control if you triumph or happens the whole opposite. Doubts? Contact a physical trainer now.

Focus your mind

When a model goes casting, knows pretty well the body is not enough. What the directors are going to evaluate is also how much concentration the model is going to performin the activity he or she is required for. If your body is here but your mind is away, things are not going to work well and that’s easy to notice, especially in crisis time.

Address all your attention to the actual moment, make aware of everything you do or say (even not mentioning any word), follow up the sequence of any activity since its beginning until its end, and pass to the next one when the last one was fulfilled, breathe deeply and think of yourself to ease projecting outside. The meditation is an excellent exercise and we know somebody who can help you.

Perfectionate your talent

We already have a good-shape body, we already have a focused mind. But, what do you know to do? It’s probable what you know to do, other many people can do the same way. Then, your personal task must be improving it to highlight. In that sense, more than compete against the other people, you should compete against yourself, against you used to be. As they say, making yourself a better version of yourself everytime.

And what about if they don’t choose you? This is the major probability a model has clear, then the first he or she learns is overcoming the mistake and reinvent for facing the next challenge, never giving up, following to fight until get it – to be resilient.

Using the social media to show the wworld how much preparation you have got in what you do the best? Yes, of course! Now than ever before, it’s an excellent decision but do it intelligently, strategically, not trying to be like anyone else but differentiating to be better than anyone else. If you need advise, we have somebody who can help you. And remember never to lose the faith in you.

As you will see, to be in casting mode is not only a mind state, the body and the spirit also have to do. It’s not complicated as much as you don’t see it complicated. It neither is a super piece of cake but it demans certain effort. What is actually clear – you can’t lose more time and you have to start right now, so when they call at you, the probability they say “begin to work today” to be very high.

Of course, we will be pleased to know your achievements or doubts on our Twitter account or our e-mail address: chulucanasgym@gmail.com

Thanks Carlos Maceda ffor giving us his photos to picturing this entry.