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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Cro_Magnon Fitness Ideas :-)
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 15:32:34 -0500
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I'm including this incidence as a cro-magnon's inadvertent attempt at 
fitness for a reason:

https://streamable.com/p6zemm


There is a school of fitness in Iran that its originator was an Armenian 
Iranian whose main (open) profession was teaching French language. A bit 
on that: In those years (end of 1930s to end of 1950s) French was the 
second language of choice in Iran for international communication and 
access to scientific and other academic journals and texts, etc. Iranian 
politicians outside Iran learned and spoke French, not English. For a 
brief 10 year period before that, from about 1935 to 1945, German was 
the language of choice for all such activities, but that changed after WWII.

I still remember old Iranian men and women knowing a good bit of German 
in my early childhood, but throughout my childhood French still ruled as 
the favorite second language.

So the market to teach French in Tehran was good in those years, But the 
knowledge to teach it couldn't come out of nowhere, cause it hadn't been 
taught (yet) in high schools. So those Iranians whom their backgrounds 
had exposed them to it first, learned and then began teaching it to 
others, making some money on the side. Such Iranians were the Armenians, 
Gorjestanis, some Polish men and women, and just about every well-doing 
Jewish Tehranis. They were men as well as women. Both did it.

Well, this particular Armenian French teacher had his own private little 
school for teaching French set up in a few rooms of his old Tehrani 
style nice large home not that far from the ministry of finance. Most of 
his clients were employees of that ministry. Teaching fitness to those 
same clients was his other activity for which he charged separately :-)

God knows what other professions he may've had, as Tehran had been 
packed for about a decade with spies of all major forces in the world. 
Armenians were usually Stalin's spies. Jews were usually Americans' and 
Brittons' spies. Parsi Indians who had businesses in Tehran were always 
- without exception - British spies. And Germany who had many spies in 
Iran had picked them from ordinary normal Iranians who were well-doing 
and educated, but after WWII the numbers had quickly gone to zero.

Most these spies worked as double agents because it is extremely hard to 
make a pure dedicated spy out of an Iranian to work only for a 
non-Iranian power. Even as Jews or Armenians, etc, when they are raised 
in Iran and have absorbed what Iran offers to her citizens, a connection 
is made at the bottom of the heart level that's really impossible to break.

That's for instance why even Israelis helped Khomeyni in that imposed 
1980-88 war. Also that is the reason Iran could not be turned into a 
colony of a major power. All these "MKO" members today that you've been 
paying for decades to create trouble in Iran? Every one of them has 
served Iran too. Without exception. "Spying" itself was invented in 
Iran, mind you. You can't beat them to that. Darius established its 
foundations, and institutionalized it. Your "Jesus" was an Iranian spy. 
Your "Three Magi" were Iranian spymsters. Iranians not only fucked your 
Neanderthal mothers from 44k to 24k years back, creating you who stand 
right now looking at yourselves in the mirror, but affected your 
history, saved you from Mongols, and gave you science and religion both!

So you may now throw a glimpse or two at why there are no Iranian spy of 
yours that isn't a double agent. Why there _is_ still an Iran today, to 
begin with. And why Iran will outlast the entire European and American 
cro-magnon funky nations.

So this handsome, tall, well-built and well-developed entrepreneurial 
Tehrani Armenian, most likely had other sources of income also to afford 
such a house :)

Back to fitness now :-)

The guy was heavily into fitness. He had studied, developed, created, 
and invented his own ideas of fitness. Had made his own school of 
fitness in fact. And his clients would swear to its effectiveness and 
benefits. He had _hand-drawn_ and typed his own manuscripts for clients 
to follow its special steps of the daily exercises (all his French 
teaching material were also hand typed by himself). It was a complete 
work, including progression, variation, finisher, primer, "deload", etc, 
anything that a nice procedure should cover but without creating a 
burnout. It did not believe in concept of burnout in exercises (probably 
to prevent mental stress buid up). The booklets were free for each new 
client, part of what he charged them per session. I remember how it 
looked inside. The pages were larger than usual, and it had black typed 
letters mixed in with red and blue colored elaborate drawings of various 
positions and stuff. All hand-made.

But the overall idea of the exercises was making sure to include 
completion of two objectives in each session: You had to exercise to a 
level that you'd profusely sweat no matter in what weather you were, and 
then right after, either swim in your pool for a couple of minutes, or 
if you didn't have a pool in your house, you had to empty a big bucket 
of water on the top of your head downward a few times over. In any 
weather! Tehran is hot during summer, so no problem there. But do you 
know how cold it is in Winters? It has three months of biting cold 
winter because the weather is essentially that of a mountain's.

So the gal in the clip above, when I saw how she got submerged into icy 
cold water, did complete the second objective of that school of exercise 
after all :-) Hehe :)

I remember how that teacher looked like. My mother was away for some 
days, I think visiting her family, and my father had to take me along to 
that exercise class for two or three days. I simply fooled around by 
myself in the cold large yard while a group of 20 or so enthusiasts, 
including my father, were ferociously exercising at the command and 
direction of the Armenian guy, together with him, and of course at the 
end, they all dived into the huge pool in the middle of the yard 
splashing and shouting at the top of their voices, smack in the coldest 
winter afternoons!..

As I recall right now, the Armenian man appeared to be in his late 
twenties or early thirties — though he might have been older, as he had 
a healthy look about him. I also remember how he moved, with the 
effortless grace and confidence of a seasoned gymnast, tall and poised, 
striking the perfect balance — never exaggerated, but never lacking!.. 
Never too fast, and never too slow. One day my father came home and said 
the guy had suddenly died. Had been found in his yard dead on the ground 
by his part-time maid. That points to possible spy activities in his 
background. He may've been involved in pro-Soviet activities. And this 
was still 1950s.

 From then on, my father did the exact same exercises early in the 
morning at home before going to his job at the ministry. And in those 
few years still living in the middle of Tehran, our "pool" was too 
little to swim in (comfortable for ornamental fish though). So my 
father, even in coldest early mornings in winter, would break the ice at 
the top of the water, and fill up bucket after bucket with zero degree 
water, and emptied them on his head and body after some vigorous 
exercise inside... I, my two elder brothers, and sometimes even my 
mother (my sisters weren't born yet), would look at him from behind 
frozen window glass, wondering and shivering at the same time...

I still remembered the Armenian's name in 1980s cause I remember writing 
something about him in a letter to my father. But I have forgotten his 
name now. He lived in the typical traditional Tehrani style home, in one 
of the best of them. Large, wide, with all the elements in place. A tiny 
form of that architecture which was usually for a newly wed couple is 
like this, I mean the yard part:

https://i.postimg.cc/htCCGZqg/small-one-family-traditional-home.jpg

But the large ones instead of that little "pool" in there, have a fully 
fledged swimming pool in the middle, and the number of rooms on all four 
sides are so many that often several relatives lived in them with their 
own families and shared the yard together for various events that always 
held in the yards, from religious processions to happy ancient holidays' 
festivities. This is an example of a moderately large traditional 
Tehrani house: (again just the yard of it)

https://i.postimg.cc/m2TNHxRM/large-traditional-home.jpg

Remnants of such houses still in use in Tehran are now museums and fancy 
restaurants and various culture centers (art exhibitions, cultural 
clubs, chess houses, bookstores, etc). They don't build those beautiful 
houses anymore in there because they have features about them that is 
not available in Tehran of today anymore. For instance, the traditional 
air-conditioning of the house for hottest days of summer requires access 
to Ghanat water, which is subterranean and flows through the lowest 
level of the building half-way below the ground level. Such Ghanat 
systems don't exist around the houses anymore, as every spot of land in 
Tehran is now occupied by some structure, making it impossible to direct 
the Ghanat waters from foot of the mountains to the house. The cold 
Ghanat water must be flowing through down there so wind-directing 
features on the roof of the house would send the moving air inside those 
halls over the moving water to spread the coldness of the water 
everywhere throughout the air in the hall.

I have been in such houses in extreme north Tehran (when they still 
existed) down there at the first level in hottest days of summer, 
feeling quite chilly with just a pants and shirt on! It was quite cold, 
and no electricity or energy was used to achieve it.

So the Tehrani traditional form of house, which heavily depended on a 
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