Posted by Royal Dragon on October 14, 2003 at 04:12:50:
In Reply to: Re: RUSSELL DELLbert Johnson posted by Curious on October 14, 2003 at 02:23:18:
If I remeber right, his Money troubles started when he began his training. He lost his Trans Am because he could not afford both the payments, and the psycotic lesson fee's of OYD.
As for the 100 circular pushups deal, after spending quite a long time converssing with him over a 6 month period, I deduced it was not the pushups themselves, it was the unhealthy lifestyle of CONSTANT over training, little sleep, a total and complete lack of recovery time, let alone proper recovery time, taken to the extreme, all brought on by a twisted, warped atmosphere generated by a sick and twisted cult he fell in with.
Were his injuries real? I'd say so, the man almost died from them. Go to Yahoo and see for yourself. I convnced him into sending me pics of his arms some time ago, and eventually I posted them on Yahoo. See for yourself. Was it OYD's fault, Yup absolutely without a doubt. It's just like countless others who went in looking to improve greatly, and now have perminantly dammaged knees, elbows, backs, and some even have hip dammage. Many of these include senior rankers clossest to Kim himself. Nationals are not fat because they are too lazy to train anymore. They are fat because they are to INJURED to fuly train anymore. They physically can't get enough cardio to keep their weight down. Their bodies are just too busted up for that kind of strain.
As for Russ, he's been out for quite some time now, wants nothing to do with anything related to OYD or John C Kim and is busy enjoying his family and running a very sucsessful buisness. He works out, is in good shape, and the is in best health of his life, just like most that leave the moo and moove on to better things.