Continué à courir, Champion!

EXCLUSIVE by ChulucanasGym.

It wasn’t easy to cross the Atlantic for him, even when he’d wanted to do it on his bicycle. Only supported by his family, Hugo Ruíz arrived to the south of France for havinh a more specialized training, after being invited by a local club.

Now, Chulucanas, Peru-native cyclist runs in Aurillac, a town with about 25000 inhabitants, below the Alpes, in a terrain going from 500 to 800 meters altitude. Inside some 20 sq km, tempered weather the most of the year… no comparison to his hot homeland!

- What do you like of Aurillac?

- What I like of Aurillac is that it’s very good to run because of its variety of topography, that helps me so much in my training.

- How did you do to adapt to this place?

- The truth itself is I adapted to the place fast. People is very kind and the city is very pretty. Actually, what it costed some weeks to me was the time zone change.

[Peru is GMT-5 and France is GMT+1.]

- How is your day here?

- Normally, everyday is the same. [laughs]Training, resting, and take advantage to read or study about something.

- What differences do you find out to your routine in Peru?

- Basically, my routine is the same to Peru. The only difference is I run more often here every week. In Peru, there were 1-2 runnings per month, normally.

- What’s that you miss a lot from Peru?

- I miss my family a lot.

- When your season ends here, what are your inmediate plans?

- Finishing, I need to have some rest, some vacations, then starting my preparation for the next season.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

Robinson Ruíz – At least just once in lifetime

Interview by Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo, special to ChulucanasGym. Photographs Courtesy Robinson Ruíz.

 

Getting to a very important tournament like the 2019 Lima Pan-American Games costed Robinson Steven Ruíz Calle (Chulucanas, Peru, Sep. 5^th, 1998) to stay far away his homeland for training properly, and giving time to extra-sport activities such as working at a restaurant, gathering plastic bottles, or giving maintenance to bikes, but he got it – he got for Peru and for himself, a bronze medal in road biking. His speciality is track speed.

 

Although he initially trained at his hometown, he might move to the other side of the nation for perfecting, in Arequipa, where the High Performance Center is located, and one of the major biking hotspots in Peru. In that same place, another highlighted biker trains, his older brother Hugo Ruíz. Was all that effort worthy?  His name already appears in the international records of biking. We talk to him while he rests from one of his most recent competitions.

 

Since how old do you do biking, already in competition mode?

Since I was 17 years old.

 

Have you ever done biking or have you do other sports?

I began in soccer when I went to the school, and I also highlighted in athletics, but I felt they weren’t for me.

 

So, how do you get to biking?

Because of my father and my older brother Hugo, whom I admire much. He began in biking. He did it before than me.

 

When you did athletics, what tests did you highlight in?

In 100 flat meters.

 

And that test is more power instead of speed, isn’t it?

Yes, it is so.

 

Then, you have got the speed and resistance of soccer and you have got the power of 100 flat meters, and a good leg is necessary in both. How did that help in biking?

So, since I was a child, I was very disciplined in my trainings, whether in soccer, athletics, or biking. And I’d add genetics to that, not dismissing the hard work for sure [laughs].

 

What factor of your genetics do you believe it plays in your favor?

I think I have some runner skills, reaching good speed peaks in short distance, and a good power management by Nature, and the ease to gain muscular mass. I add to that much pure resistance work, resistance to power and speed.

 

How do you get to 2019 Lima Pan-American Games?

After a set of selectives to all pre-selected athletes, who highlighted the most in different resistance and speed tests were selected. I was one of the chosen ones.

 

When you arrived, what was the first thing that came into your head?

The first thing I thought it was my first and last chance to show the class in home. I like much to do something thinking it will be the last time I do it. It makes me to deliver 100%.

 

How much did that thinking way work to you?

Well, the truth is I continue applying it in every phase of my life. I believe it helps me ever, it turned me into a very passionate, dedicated man. It’s about the life is too short and someone doesn’t know where someone will be tomorrow. The road biking is a sport that is not respected in Peru by the drivers, there are road accidents risk ever.

 

You took an interesting issue. There are campaigns asking to respect the bikers everywhere, but it seems the engine vehicles drivers don’t understand it. How do you feel about?

It’s something very sorry that fills me with much impotence and anger. It’s easy for them to take a seat in the safety of a big vehicle that protects them. We go on a bike – the only stuff protecting me is a helmet. I demand respect to the life of us, the bikers – five feet distance wwhen you want to pass beside me, that’s it. You can lose a minute of your time and passing in a safe way for us. We can lose our whole life full of goals, dreams, and along.

 

Also, the bike produces zero polluting emissions to the atmosphere and it’s a recommended exercise to keep the health of body and mind, isn’t it?

Right, my buddy.

 

You talked about a life of dreams and along. Where has the biking got you to, and if did you ever dream at least to get until there?

Once upon a time when I was a kid, I dreamed much to be featured on TV riding on my bike with all these professional bikers who run the tour right there in Europe, and because of the work and constancy, the biking gifted me that opportunity by participating in the San Juan Tour, a classic in Argentina where all the professional teams participate. The dreams are to be accomplished and they can make real, indeed. I’ve known places I never thought, diverse countries, cultures, moments, friends, experiences I will keep forever.

 

Please, mention these countries, aside Argentina, and don’t forget anyone.

Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Spain, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile. These are what I remember.

 

Almost all Iberoamerica. To finish for now, I remember when we met your brother Hugo, one of his major challenges was getting a sponsorship and it was very hard. How was it in your case?

Well, I took a part-time job a little time ago to fundraise some trips to certain competitions. It still continues to be a challenge for me [laughs]. I don’t travel to all the rides because the budget lacks – biking is expensive.

 

But, do you know what you have, aside the genetics? So, the pride and the enthusiasm. I hope more people look at your work and your colleague bikers’ because the international results you get really makes worthy any funding.

Thank you very much, buddy.

 

You can check out the international records of Robinson here. Also, follow him on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

 

 

Do you have a similar story? Write us at chulucanasgym@gmail.com or contact us on our Twitter account. 

Functional Training

An alternative to gain stamina, power and all their benefits.

By ChulucanasGym. Video by Alonso Mejía.

It’s common many people use weekends to practice sports, but what wonders in Chulucanas, Peru, is a specific group of men and women who don’t do one in particularexcept a special kind of fitness.

They workout specific parts of their bodies replying exercises or movements those could be done by apparels, barbells, or by using the body’s weight itself, so they can response before the same stimulation while their conventional training, or just adding agility to their daily lives.

As a result, they are developing potence and resistance at the same time – they practice functional training.

The discipline is just going into Piura, and the peculiar in Chulucanas is practicing it outdoors around or inside the city. “We had to go up the city watch hillas part of the routine, just once,” one of our producers tells.

In terms of sports, functional training is ideal to someones usually practicing other sports, especially those demanding much resistance like soccer or athletism, because of this advantage to customize routines at maximum and the using of your own body weight (mainly in beginner period), under the command of avoiding hurts.

Of course this technique isn’t new, as we think, because it had been already promoted by infamous Charles atlas through isometric exercises. What this mythical sportsman didn’t add is using weights, bars, and control of specific times for executing and resting.

As you go gaining time and skill, complexity and exigency of movements as well as using of accesories will be increasing. But in every moment this type of training looks for being flexible requirements of someones who practice it, not meaning they’ll become lazy.

According to Chulucanas group’s monitor Alonso Mejía, people report him much tone, stiffless, better breathing. “My muscles are firmer than before,” he assures.

Another functional training’s promise is a better blood circulation, but it could be proven after a cardiology checking. However, it’s suggested that before beginning it, you pass a medical checking to discard any background condition.

Despite, there isn’t a forbbiden age for functional training, almost. It’s recommended for children and older adults as well. The trick is giving each one the right exigency level.

Is it crossfit?

It has not be confused to crossfit or crossing fitness. We mean it must not be offered functional training like crossfit because it has own rules and a very strict licensing systemunder supervision of trademark owners .

The surely true one is that a great part of crossfit  is based on functional training, with differences in dificulty degree and the fact of it looks to superate very defined challenges, the most of times for competition scores. This means customized routines, discipline and precision are greater.

Actually in the U.S., corps of police, firefighters, marines, and top performance athletes are who mainly practice it. The idea should be haven in Peru, considering the public claim about our corps of police and soldiers seem to be  fitless.

Plus, using of accessories in crossfit is much more frequent than functional training, so using them is optional but recommended.

“Crossfit programs are almost mandatory in execution, in functional training, they are more adaptable and open, for instance,”  a trainer explains us.

What specialists suggest in both disciplines is a reduced group of people practicing. If it’s about customizing routines, numerous groups will do impossible the supervision and hurts risk is high.

Finally, some publishings suggest these requirements to practice them: consciousness and knowledge of own limits, reduced groups with expert proffessionals in charge of routines, customized training, intensity increase depending on skill gotten from movements and based on results, enough and adequate previous warming up, excellent technique in exercises, previous adaptation, discipline, correct hydratation, and previous medical controls to set up training to the own body.

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Post-Produced by Sheyla Benavente.

Training Chulucanas Gym Style

Five lessons to gain muscle and courage.

By Nelson Peñaherrera (@nelsonsullana) / FACTORTIERRA.NET

Photos by Jhon Gomez / Chulucanas Gym

CHULUCANAS, Peru -- “Come in here,” Bruno Rosas, 26, guides me gently, pausing for a while the lobby he does to get a sponsorship.

Bruno is a bodybuilding fan and part of Chulucanas Gym Project (CG), what looks for promoting that discipline and fitness to expand healthy lifestyles in his community, and for getting that more contestants go to regional and national competitions.

One of the goals is to reach Mister Piura contest every March, and national ones in the long term.

But such goal requires much investment on effort, time, attitude and money.

Bruno has been very accomplished with the three first. He has developed some muscle and harmony, organizes a couple of hours in his schedule to work out, persevere. What lacks is money.

Bodybuilding, as well as almost competition sports, requires much money investment and Bruno does not own enough funds.

“I work whatever I find,” he trusts me.

His variable, scarse budget goes to his 18-month-old daughter as priority, then himself – working out.

Lesson 1: Warming Up. Bodybuilding is a discipline focused on highlight human anatomy by gaining muscle volume, even beyond the average, or the fact of keeping the shape not losing aesthetics (fitness).

At least across Piura, bodybuilding has begun to be relevant the last 25 years, what means gymnasiums opening for all likes and budgets.

Piura City started first, then Sullana, Talara, and so all province capital cities (Ayabaca and Huancabamba joined for the last 5 years), and more uncarefully in certain district capital cities.

The wave arrived in Chulucanas more than a decade ago, assuming it first like a rare thing, an eccentricity or just a women’s issue.

Lesson 2: Discipline. The wave touched Bruno two years ago and since that happened, he could not set free of it. In fact, this guy does not drink, smoke and he has got some emotional spot among the problems he must face daily.

In the end, everything gets out the gym every afternoon from 5 to 7.

If he had less things to do, he could give time to develop another of his skills: “singing.”

While, he is learning to do lobby, to stand up before a person and convincing to get support  for dress, supplements or relief to contest. To be right, he works like radar.

“Why not you tell him?,” he addresses to CG co-ordinator’s lawyer Jhon Gomez, 26, who started to work out two months ago.

Although Gomez was an athlete when he was a high-school student, his firstyears of university and proffessional career kept him out the sports and healthy lifestyles until he confronted himself many mornings ago, went to the gymnasium, and paid for his membership. He started training, that same afternoon.

Two days later, he was so achy that he promised in vain not to get up from his bed. Then, uncomfortability turned discipline, and as he has been involving more, he knew stories of many boys with much talent and attitude but few money.

Lesson 3: Go beyond the fearAfter working almost all day at an office, Jhon goes to . rite letters, visit (almost intercept) pottential sponsors, convince and get first sponsorship promises.

Inclusive, he has got into something it is not necessarily part of his proffessional profile: production of promo videos about CG.

He has turned as the producer of a couple of them, released on FACTORTIERRA.NET YouTube channel, those have got attention of cyber surfers in England and Scotland!

Also, Red Hit has recommended the features.

Videos are manufactured by CG. In fact, Jhon is the camraman.

Lesson 4: We all begin as novates. Harold Palacios, 22, works out in the morning and studies Nutrition at seat Sapientae University in Chulucanas at the afternoon.

Harold also prepares to contest but budget is not enough for him so he is one of CG members to be covered by sponsorships in the mean term.

Lesson 5: Working out continues after the gym. But those men not only breathe at the gym. Jhon Gomez is looking for specialists to get medical, nutritional and even psychological advisory, because he is conscious that some bodybuilding fans could hide conditions anger, anxiety management, depression or drugs abuse, just to mention someones.

“Boys not only have to get a good body but mental, spiritual harmony,” he states.

Meanwhile, CG continues to explore chances and making plans for projecting toward their community as a sport reference, looking for sponsorships, perseverating, reaching goals with satisfaction, although the rest do not understand them.

“Mom says me I’m becoming thin but the truth is clothes before did not fit me, I already can wear now,” one of the guys trusts me under promise not to reveal the name.

Will we see them contesting once?

It is a matter of time and hard work, the same key variables for getting the perfect body.

Suportt CG by writing Jhon Gomez at chulucanasgym@gmail.com

Watch its video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wieNJD9baoA&list=UUiuUwqP4GSoioUmhdR0q93Q

Translation corrected by esthefany Rodríguez. © 2014 Asociación Civil Factor Tierra (@factortierra). All Rights Reserved.

Working out is good , with safe information is better

By El Regional de Piura

This is the translation of the story published on an important Sullana, Peru-based news website to we are affiliate to, last Saturday February 14^th, 2015. Thanks everyone for your support.

 

CHULUCANAS, Peru – “It must not see like something bad that a young guy works out at a gym, but it has to do healthy,” Chulucanas Gym Project’s coordinator Jhon Gomez commented about the blog he leads.

“The issue I’m noting is many guys enter to work out because of diverse causes, and what they have the less is trustable information,” the lawyer added , who powered an initiative to promote physical & mental health through vodybuilding and fitness.

ChulucanasGym blog has experienced a high growth in hits amount since its launching last December. Last Wednesday 11^th,   it got over 3000 visits.

The website offers scientifically proved and adapted to Piura’s reality information on interest topics for young people who usually do physical activity outdoors as well as at a gym.

“We are understanding that boys and girls need trustable information  that keeps them fit but safeguards their health, mainly, and it seems we are getting,” Gomez stated.

The blog, that is produced in association with and it’s powered by FACTORTIERRA.NET, is covering effects of steroid anabolics and recently about diets.

“Another important aspect is that even we target to young audience, parents can go in, verify the information and share it, because we are caring data trustability over all.”

“Usually, ChulucanasGym people give field information to us, and at FACTORTIERRA.NET we balance it and make to check it out by a crew that includes a health expert, so final version is safe information,” blog’s contents producer Eder Dioses added.

 

© 2015 Aral editores. Translated by FACTORTIERRA.NET

 

He started to pedal so (and never stopped)

Clean as water, strong as metal

The Road To The Stage

Five lessons you must not forget  when deciding to contest.

By ChulucanasGym

The look of wrestling celebrities inspired Henry hernandez to sign up a gym. "If they can, maybe I  can". He was 18 years  old then. Today he's 29.

The first time he contested was in 2013, in Chulucanas, Peru, the city he born and where he lives currently, after checking  out many magazines and movies about Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I was wondered of the body's aesthetics,"  and in Arnold's  case, he thinks his best body part is his chest, no question about it.

Lesson 1: Give Up On Your Shame and Fear
One of the thinhgs he had to bear was the people bringing him down, but he learned soon to take that easy. "Everything I heard, it went in an ear then went out the other one. I just listened to my body, moving me forward."

Another thing he had to bear was standing up semi-naked on the stage before the public, but when he watched the other  contestants did it untroubled, he felt some relief. "I'm very nervous, so I watched the other contestants performing  without much complication,  and I tried to control that  fear for following the protocols ," he confesses.

[READ also: Our 11 tips when you're looking for a sponsorship.]

Something worst than that? Yes! That you forget about your choreography  and the poses you had planned to do. "I just had  to concentrate myself by looking at the judges, or I closed my eyes avoiding to see the audience, I got focused on my  technique to be well performed."

Henry says as the time passed by, he has come to work  about that topic, so he hopes the next times  he have to contest, he  will superate the fear, that is natural in the other side.  Even, experienced artists say to feel it every time they have  to stand up on the stage. Inclusive, it's a signal they are doing the things right.

The mental work of a contestant is so hard, as the physical one, because has to bear these situations, too many usual among  who contest. They also have to work much their attitude, that reflexes into  their moves fluency on the stage, and ever  keeping in mind to enjoy the time a lot, even when it's about a competition. Staying up there is already a high task.

[READ ALSO: The strategy of René baró for reaching real goals.]

Lesson 2: Internet is almost never right
The first time he decided to contest at Mister Piura, a state-wide contest, was in 2014, and he started to look for   information on Google to design his training strategy, but he didn't get the results he expected.

Then he understood something: what the search engines highlight is not ever true. For example, that the last days he had  to elliminate the sodium, and he ended holding liquids back. "Ones said one thing, others said another thing," Henry remembers. "The truth is I cannot put my health in risk."

Actually, the Internet doesn't lie although it might say the truth first.  What you have to do is gathering all relevant  information you can, to compare it, and to verify it with recognized and certified sources. Sometimes it's better to delay  many days  until having the full information than getting excited about what appears the first 10 seconds of research.

"Now I follow the people  who had contested and the appropriate sources," Henry affirms. 

In ChulucanasGym's case, we have a protocol  useful for you: once we gather all our data,  we consult them with scientific  sources to determine what are true, what are myths, what must be handled carefully; we discard the two last ones, and we only stand up and publish what is a scientific truth and preferently independent because many comes commercially polluted.

[READ ALSO: Henry's 5 steps for a correct warm-up.]

Lesson 3: The Body Doesn't Only Live From Weights
In the physical level, the training and the feeding are two key aspects to care.

"I have to manage a diet that fits me because not all the bodies are equal," Henry tells. The common to all the bodies   is indeed all the diets have to balance proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins in right ratios.

If you have access to a nutritionist, you'll can get help to create  a regime made according to your needs.

Henry also eats 5-6 times per day "for the body to be metabolically active, [plus¡ much fruit, much water."

The last week before a competition, reduce the ingestion of carbohydrates although increase the frequency of consumption.  Every two hours in Henry's case. Likewise reduce the consumption of potasium and water at the point that the last day  almost don't drink liquid.

"Gotta see yourself rocky," Henry points out.

[READ ALSO: The importance of a healthy feeding.]

The another aspect is compplying rigorously your training routine. The idea  during the first weeks is building muscle and stabilizing its volume as it grows up. Usually, it's about exercises with  much weight and short repetitions.

The previous weeks to a competition, the scheme changes. "I do hypertrophy exercises with low weight and many repetitions, or pumping-up  exercises to keep, for it to see more  ripped," Henry explains.

In the last weeks, much-weight exercises are not done longer, because you won't gain muscular mass yet.

Remember that two tools you ever got to have ready are the measuring tape for controlling progress in an objective way,   over body measures, and a weighing machine that doesn't lie, for controlling your weitht and being sure you belong  to the  cathegory in what you plan to contest.

[READ ALSO: Do you know what your genetics is?]

Lesson 4: Get everything Ready
The competition day usually divides in two parts: weight control and the performance itself. be aware you have in your  hands everything you need for each one of those phases.

If somebody can helps you for not carrying on everything everywhere, and relief you to take off a reason to concern by the way, will be the best.

If you are one of those who uses to forget the things in the last minute, make a written list on a copybook or your  cellphone, then write down everything you need, so when you have to carry it on, you check it out.  Of course, don't forget  the copybook or the cellphone.

If you learn to organize, everything will be easier.

Lesson 5: Don't Give Up
Despite all this preparation, Henry didn't get  any price in the last contest he entered. What went wrong? According to  him, his preparation was right but he wasn't clear about which one the judges criteria were at the qualification time.

Many contestants use to react angry when the results are not favorable to them. It's natural. But also remember there can  be many personal, external factors those don't generate a victory.

Superate the angryness, pass over the time, continue training consciously. The worst that a sportsman can do is giving up.  He is not done for that. It is not into his DNA. Then, continue superating, set up new goals, contest again.

[READ ALSO: The 7 tips of Pedro Bautista for being better in sports and life.]

Remember almost never the triumph comes in the first time you try, but neither expect to get something if you never try it. They can defeat on the stage, but they never won't defeat on your attitude.

Winning fair

An infallible guide to triumph in sports – and life.

 

We’ve already introduced you Ronald Jonathan Benites Rangel, a Laws student with three diplommas in criminal issues, extrajudicial conciliator, ecology activist, and fan of bodybuilding and biking too. His sport journey began in 2010 when he decided he wanted to improve his physical condition through power training, and he didn’t stop until participating in three Mister Piura contests in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

 

“I did it because I wanted to prove myself how much I’ve could advance and comparing my level to other Piura bodybuilders, and, why not, everywhere,” he affirms. “Also, I wanted to prove it can participate any contest, then passing the anti-doping tests without fear to objections or accusations.”

 

“You don’t know the sensation someone has going up the stage and contest! It’s an emotion you only can describe in that same instant,” he comments so proud while his eyes shine by satisfaction. “I didn’t win but I dared.” The journey is not simple. The obstacles appear everytime, and the most difficult is the indifference to sports. “One thing concerning me is the bodybuilding has no sponsorship from companies and my town’s institutions,” he claims quiet but convinced.

 

The genetics and natural feeding that still can be gotten in an agricultural community like Chulucanas, Peru, made possible he grew, muscularily speaking, not needing to run to synthetized supplementation. “I eat everything I can but balanced, plus my exercises routine,” he tells.

 

Although in the beginning, his family didn’t see well his hobby, they realized soon it was getting benefits to him. “I like to go out with my friends but I don’t smoke, I don’t drink alcohol, I sleep enough, oh!, and I neither make drugs,” he explains. Also, Ronald has a good academic performance, he’s a student leader, and he has discovered an insight as a conferencist and motivator, getting to catch his public’s interest.

 

At a workshop for youth in Sullana, he got to convince his audience on the need to grow and consume healthy food. After the presentation, he was one of the most required speakers by the attendants to make a picture.

 

The RJ Strategy

Based upon his own experience, we thought what things worked to Ronald that could work to you, and we found a quite exigent pattern, but if you follow it up, you culd also be proud of your own results, and playing fair.

• Find the reason inside you – Almost all the people motivate to begin a fitness plan if someone else goes with them. It helps for sure but it creates dependance. So, the idea is that the spark to begin, continue, and get must break out inside you. If nobody wants to follow you, move on. The triumph or the defeat will be your own responsibility.
• Set yourself clear and realistic goals – Yes, it’s necessary you set up a personal plan –look, personal—that points out wwwhich your sport goals will be and what adequate procedures will be to reach them. Take advice from a reliable specialist to see which ones will allow to optimize your own energy without underworking or overworking. Ronald also can advise you, and we’ll have this contact below this article.
• Get away what they will say – The people have right to opine, but never forget you have right to improve. Empower your convictions, and learn to manage the critic, wwhat means valuating it depending on who comes it on. Obviously, don’t listen to who doesn’t know anything of this – it’s losing worthy time.
• Apply honesty to your own plan – Believe it or not, there are people who try to cheat themselves even when they work out. Don’t do that mistake because you’re gonna frustrate or you’re gonna do an unrecoverable damage. Don’t accept the abounding magic recipes. Everything in life is gotten by working hard, and that’s the way it is. It can take you years even, but if you are patient and perseverant, you’ll se you’ll get it, and nobody could question your triumphs.
• Penalyze and award yourself – wait! This doesn’t mean you begin to hurt yourself, but you set up appropriate penalties and awards to your goals. So, you will learn to valuate your own effort. Your coach or Ronald can advise on this issue.
• Register your process – Are you going in progress? And according to what document? Remember there are advance indicators for every sport (anthropometrics, speed or weight records, etc). Then, take some minutes to have your own statistics and so having your own objective tool indicating if everything goes OK or not. Even it can be funny you design your own personal sport database, for you to set up progress scenarios.
• Share your experience – You don’t know the huge existent disinformation, even at gyms, about physical training strategies, so it’s necessary the people who have known to follow a plan, and prove it works, can do a sort of pair advisory complementing the specialized sport advisory. Plus, you’ll feel the satisfaction to see that all your effort was not in vain.

 

Ronald is available for customized training sessions and sport advisory, as well as speaking and conferences through Ronald_27_89@hotmail.com, his Facebook account, and our Twitter account.