Day 335: A Surreal Day...Japanese TV Crew In My House!

G'day,

I think I almost had an outer-body experience today!

Like An Outer-Body Experience!

It felt like I was viewing myself and my journey from above as the Japanese TV crew, director and translator were filming me do the normal things I do every day, i.e. go to the gym, eat salmon salad and take a daily picture.

Another reason why it felt surreal is that I rarely give myself a time-out to reflect on my journey as a whole. I just focus on getting the job done each day.

However, in order to best explain my story to TV viewers I had to revisit (in full color printouts!) my earlier days and hold up the pictures standing in this same doorway as proof.

Filming At The Gym

We also went to the local Osaka gym where I work out. I think there were quite a few surprised faces when they saw a camera crew filming me as most people there don't know about my journey (or that I blog daily).

However, as I already did my "real" workout a couple of hours earlier I didn't have much energy left for the shoot. Luckily I only had to do four 10-rep sets on bench press, shoulder press, bicep curls and deadlifts for the whole shoot.

Filming At My House

When we got back to my apartment I had to eat my pre-made salmon salad for the camera. This was kinda funny as they took a close-up of the salad and me eating it!

I then set up my tripod (their tripod was much bigger!) for my Day 335 picture. They then filmed me as I walked over and hit the 10-sec timer and walked back to the doorway for the shot.

This was also very surreal as I have been doing this for so long now so it's "normal" for me, but it was quite a novelty for the crew I think.

However, when I think back to "Day 1" I could never have imagined that a TV crew would be filming me 335 days later!

Air Time And Date

All up it took about 4 hours to film all the segments which will be compressed down into a 3-minute piece! If you live in Japan (or have access to NHK World) you can watch my segment on @Human on NHK Channel 2 on Sunday, October 14, 2007 from 11.00PM.

My segment will air in a section of the show called Hayai-mimi (Translation: catching what will soon be "famous" or "big"). I'm actually very interested in seeing how they edit down all the filming into 3 minutes!

Thank You

Before I sign off I'd like to thank the NHK Program Director for giving me the chance to tell my story along with the Translator and the Camera Crew for their big effort. Thanks guys!

I'd also like to say thank you to the gym owner for giving us permission to shoot at his gym as well as the staff who are very cool.

I sincerely hope that this story (when it goes to air) does inspire a few people to take action on their physique transformation goals and realize that it is never too late to live your dreams, no matter how many times you have "failed" in the past.

Ok, time for me to get some rest and slip into the "real dreamland"!

Peace,
Adam Waters, NESTA-CPT

P.S. Below are Day 334 pics for October 9, 2007: Mission 3 Phase 2 - Day 40 of 70