People ask why I teach these “Old Fashion” training methods, especially when there is so called “modern” resistance training.
The truth is given the current state of art, there is no future for STRENGTH training, and we are currently in the Dark Ages.
“body building” seems to have become the norm around the 50’s. Since that time there have been very few strong people.
Like one of the last of them Charles Atlas, who could bent steel in his hands, tear thick phone books in half, pull 5 cars for 1 mile and could do 75 deep knees bends with a 125 lbs person on his back!!! His training methods seem to stop being practiced by the 60’s or so.
One of the earliest strongmen was Eugene Sandow who could perform a one arm chin-up with any “one” of his ten fingers at bodyweight of 190 lbs.
He could also do a back flip with 35 lb dumbbells in each hand.
The fact of the matter is that if you are interested in getting stronger…..you have to go back to these old school methods like moving your body through space and at certain angles and such.
Look around in most magazines and infomercials; you will see that the trend is going in the direction of bodyweight cals. They simply work the best and gives every one results fastest.
Take the basic push up for example; it’s been around for ages, WHY? Because it works. This exercise works every muscle in the body.
I put my students through this simple test in the past week or so. Just get in a push up position and try to hold it for 5 minutes. After a 1st minute or so everyone was shaking from head to toe. They could feel every muscle in their body straining to keep in the position. Try it for yourself!!!
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Dr Jim Brassard Ph.D/Ma.D.Sc. Holds Doctorates of martial arts philosophy & martial arts science. He is also a 10th Degree Black Belt in the art of kenpo/Kempo Karate and has been a martial arts & Combat fitness instructor for 30 years. He is also the author of Combat Fitness: Exercises if the Iron Men.
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