Massive strength and endurance with no pain

[thehardcorps]

Combatants,

 

It is time for me to once again stir up the hornets nest. I have always been tall, lanky, and weak. I have worked according to current american exersize doctrines with no progress. I began studying what other countries do and what the strongmen of the past did in order to have such great strength at such a low bodyweight. Since then, I have become exceedingly strong and powerful. My fitness level is high. My pain level? ZERO! I never wake up sore. Imagine that.

 

This is like a new religion to me and I hope to help out all of those poor people that are constantly damaging and hurting themselves for absolutely no reason. Stop hurting yourself. My knowledge costs nothing. I want us all to be stronger. I will explain further as time goes by.

 

The first thing you must do right now is stop working to failure. STOP. Every time you work to exhaustion you are tearing your muscles down, destroying them and their strength potential. When you workout, keep it short and sweet, and do not work to failure.

 

For example, if you bench press 145 pounds for 6 reps, the sixth rep being your absolute last, only do five reps, or maybe even four. Do this for 3 sets EVERY day. You will not be sore. You will not be weak. And your strength will grow daily.

 

Try it and see. More to come.

[Looneyas]

So you saying do complete body work out everyday.

 

Ya i can see my self working out for longer than the 2 hrs a day

[thehardcorps]

Looneyas,

 

Yes. You are exersizing your entire body every day. But you know how many exersizes I do? 3!!! Deadlift, Bench, and Weighted Pullups. With these three exersizes I workout my whole body. I am working all of my muscles at multiple angles. If you think about it, in martial arts you hardly ever throw a punch or kick at the exact same angle. So when you workout you never should do an exersize that you work your muscle at exactly the same angle. Bench is the only exersize I do that comes close to this. But I try and vary the angle every time.

 

Imagine, you are lifting extremely heavy weights for low reps every time. Your body is getting used to ballistic shock. It is getting used to heavy weight. No more sissy stuff!

[Tombstone]

That might work for you but I doubt it will work for everybody. Congrats on your gains though.

[Neil]

My teacher has actually talked about this. When you push past your limit you produce cells which make the muscle larger and slightly stronger. But if you push your self to the point of struggling and no further you will build cells that build strengh over a period of time as opposed to great big bulburous muscles that are not as strong. Also it is a phsyciological thing. If you push past the struggle the next day your body will not want to exercises becasue it knows it has to go through it all over again. Whereas if you only exercise up to your limit this gives the body energy rather than take it away, and so the body will want to exercise.

 

A few days a go I did 100 hindu pushups and when I went to look in the mirror I was perspirating blood on my chest. This is a sign of over-training. My teacher said that more people die of heart attckes through over-training than obesity. You should be exercising where you can keep a conversation going.

 

But don't you think its a good idea to really struggle once in a while. For example every other day, or once or twice a week?

 

thanks,

 

Neil

[thehardcorps]

Thank you Neil! I wish I had a better way to state the information that I have learned over the years. Needless to say, this comes from years of being a Physical Training Freak in the Marines.

 

Neil is right in that by training everyday NOT to your limit you create muscles that are DENSE, STRONG, but not large. Think Bruce Lee. When you work to your absolute limit, you create muscles that are large and filled with fluid. Hence they look big but are not as functional as smaller denser muscles. When you lift HEAVY HEAVY weights but never to your max, you train your body to be extremely strong. And who said that you cannot work your body everyday. Look at cowboys and farmers that bail hay all day long. They are extremely strong and wiry.

 

In order to test yourself, I do what I call "endos"...or endurance sessions. I do sets of pushups, pullups abdominals, and dips, varying how each exercise is done, doin almost to my max burn, then go to the next exercise, etc...going until I can go on but it hurts too much (lactic acid burn). This does not destroy the muscle but forces your body to raise your lactic acid limit.

 

If you want some more details and to see my exact workout, which will turn you into a ripped, hard and scary fighter, EMAIL me at mclawson@terriclawson.com

[Tamojin]

Does strength training with weights take away speed?

[Neil]

It can and it can't. As long as you RELAX under pressure and put in minimum effort, so as to use only the amount of strengh to lift the weight as opposed to tensing the muscle as hard as possible which WILL slow you down. I used to do loads of weight lifting and weh nI started Martial Arts and combat sports again I was extrememly slow and lethergic. But when I met my teacher he was teaching us to relax under pressure and when I applied this I saw that my speed increased as opposed to decrease, it also improves strengh. Most people don't even know they'r doing it, you can also apply this to body weight calisthenics. Tensing wheres out the muscles, makes it slower, weaker, and much more prone to injury.

 

Neil

[Looneyas]

Does strength training with weights take away speed?

 

You asked--

 

Well I been doing weights for 3 months now, hard training, I havnt lost no speed. I am extremly fast so maybe if there was a loss of speed i cant notice it.

 

Plus i do a lot of speed ball training for speed.

 

Reading the 3 main exercise that are done.

 

1. Dead Lifts --- can u replace that with squats or u trying to work lower back and hamstring.

 

2.Bench press - do u alternate bettwenn incline ?

 

3. Weight pull ups --- close grip as well ??

[Neil]

Although I am no longer a weight lifter I have read a lot of books on the old time ways of weight lifting. Basically with any exercise be it weight lifting or bodyweight exercises you want to make the movement as compounded as possible (using as many muscles and joints together in one movement.

 

Bodybuilders are starting to be exposed and now many people know that they lack any functional strengh. They are infact very weak, I know this from experiance of actually doing body building and meeting fellow bodybuilders my self and are very weak, why? Because they isolate thir muscle which make them more "buff" and larger but do nothing for strengh. The body naturally moves as one co-ordinated self, not a bunch of individual muscles.

 

Remember Rocky Marciano. The smallest reach of any heavyweight boxer, only weighed 180ibs 5'10 and yet had the strongest punch of any boxer. His punch was actuallt tested and his punching velocity was greater than a speeding bullet! This man could hit! And how! Because he used his whole body to punch with. Co-ordiantion of power is what you want.

 

When doing shoulder presses for example don't just lift the weight with your arms. Bend your legs and push the weight up first with your legs, then the stomach, then the rest of the upper body. Now instead of just exercsing the shoulders and arms you have exercised the entire body. This is how the old timers trained, and they where extremly strong. Regarding movements, you want the most simple and multi-jointed (compounded) as possible. Vary the exercises and movements as much as possible, so you train you rbody from different angles. Remember the more you train your body from different angles the more functional your strenghwill be.

 

If infact you are into combat sports or martial arts I would highly recommend bodyweight calisthenics exercises over weight training simply since bwc can train everything in one go.

 

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