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   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   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   
      
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