Dumb-bells

Phone rings at the gym...

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Hercule: Can’t talk now. I’m using weights.

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Sol: Ha! Curls or presses?

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Hercule: Bench presses.

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Sol: How many you done? Ten? Ha!

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Hercule: 650 every morning.

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Sol: You have a personal trainer?

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Hercule: Sure. She’s here now. Raisa Shyne. Telling me to get off the phone.

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Voice-over

Hercule is improving his upper body muscles to understand the strength needs of wheelchair athletes. He was impressed by a gymnast who was paralyzed waist down after a fall and became a Paralympian tennis sports champion.

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It didn't happen… to Uchimura

Unrealistic pessimism…

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Alexei: Gymnastics makes me feel like saying ‘How do they DO that?’ Especially Uchimura.

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Horsing around on the pommel

Vitaly: He was worried before Rio. After what happened in London. Landing badly from the pommel horse. He thought things might go wrong again.

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Alexei: But it didn’t happen. He got the gold.

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Vitaly: And then that $5,000 he racked up in roaming charges playing Pokemon. It’s a lot.

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Alexei: But it didn’t happen. Softbank capped his charges at $30 a day.

Google Pommel

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Voice-over

Kohei Uchimura had a rocky 2012 London Olympics. He said he changed his routine too close to the event and turned in a performance less stellar than his usual. But he changed strategy for 2016 Rio. He fixed his routine a year before and practiced that every day. He also focused on the team gold. This time it did happen!

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