Month: April 2020

Dude,

You’re not yet 21. Thus far you’ve lived a life of playstation and taco bell. You’re lazy. This saddens me.

I’ve told you man to man, I’m jealous of your frame. I’m 6′, small framed, and managed through effort to grow well past my intended size, without drugs, just training. You’re 6’6″, large framed. I wasn’t joking when I said I’d love to train you.

I see your genetic potential. A barbell, a yoke, hell even pushing your pickup around…you could be solid at 400lbs. You have the genetics, you duestchland looking motherfucker you, you could be the equivalent of Brian Shaw.

Regardless, I want to see you train. You’d be a monster just catching pumps at planet fitness.

I still remember when you wanted to train with me, when you wanted to get into weight regs and enlist. Bro, that shit is never off the table.

I’d love to PT with you. With you, I know you think I’d make a great di, but I’d be right there with you rep for rep, hell starting out there’d even be a handicap. I’d do more than you, with you.

I told my uncle that I’d love to train you, how I see your potential, but how with my black and white thinking would want to guide you towards one extreme of build or the other. Yeah, you’d be set catching pumps at pf, you’d likely fall in love with the place off of all the booty on the stairmaster alone, but that’s not the physical path I’d like to take you.

I see two options :

• Strongman
• Burpees

With strongman we’d get you to that solid 400lbs. This path would be more towards your tradesman uncle who was probably the most physically imposing, most impressively built man I’ve ever come across, just off of working labor. What was he 6’6″ 320lb, and fairly lean? He did that without thinking into it, just working labor, you have that genetic potential. With conscious effort put into training you can surpass your uncle’s robustness as training is conscious and with thought, it’ll surpass the build from a labor job which is phyiscal effort without thinking into the muscle.

Now with burpees this is the other extreme. You know how I’m 0-100, black and white, I like all or nothings. I’d love to, like the videos popping up on my youtube feed of an active duty marine and hispanic ex-cons, collaborate with you on this. I’m prepared to start at a handicap of 3 reps of navy seals to your 1 rep of 1 pumps.

This path? I see you being 265lbs,lean &mean, just cut up, a nasty shredded motherfucker who can go all day. You’ll have done a million burpees, and be capable of just repping out on pullups and handstand pushups.

You have that potential to be solid at 6’6″, not rolly polly soft like you are at present. Just go to pf or do some pushups at home at a minimum. However, I’d love to see you go to one of those extremes.

400lbs of big ass muscular dude? You can do it.

265lbs of lean, mean, animalistic motherfucker? You can do it.

There are pros and cons to each. I’ll help you on the path either way. I want to see you do something with those genetics bro,

-J

I’ve been doing 3:00 of a leg static each and every day for awhile now. Everyday this year, so a solid quarter, if not longer as I likely started some point in 2019.

If it’s a high horse stance I’ll hit it all in one go, and that got my legs strong as the stuck forklift shows.

I work on doing more in deeper horse stance position. I’ll vary the height of the hold, and arm positions.

Wall sits I get done in 1-3 sets, with the 3:30 pr thus far.

A modified warrior stance is another regular, I’ll hit it for usually 90 seconds a side, though sometimes it’s 2×45 seconds a side. Most of the time I squeeze either the quad or the glute, sometimes both at once, and rarely just hold the position and deep breath.

I’ll do a deep split oly position for much the same concious flexing protocols.

The less “flex” variant can be done for very long holds if you so please. I almost never do this, but have before.

Now most of the time I do the leg static holds, a type of isometric, for semi long lengths of time. The holds are more a moderate intensity defined in the 1rm sense, which is not to say the same in the bro effort sense.

It doesn’t have to be this way however. You can set an interval timer for short work and short rest periods and treat it as more of a max effort.

(One can also up the intensity by driving the feet into the ground.)

5 seconds to prepare, then 20 rounds of 10 seconds on, 5 seconds rest. I did deep oly split positions, and lunge holds, this was made all the harder by the “rep” each set to stand and switch legs. By the time I’m in position again work time. To recover a little more it’d be a higher position modified warrior pose. It was a mix of regular moving reps and isometrics.

Super legs with no equipment necessary.

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I’ve seen it argued that the traditional martial arts traveled eastward, having originated in the grecian world.

We know of the gymnasium. We know of the olympics, halteres, but do we know of the exact exercises?

There’s a lot of commonalities when you look into the history of physical culture…across national boundaries and cultures.

(Both training and eating.)

Wrestling is the oldest of masculine sport.

It makes sense to me that ancient military PT would be alive and well in a sacred environ of wrestling and physicality.

The western style pushup and the hindu style squat, the “baithak” known in the more recent european/american physical culture context of the twentieth century as the deep knee bend, both click for me.

The two exercises stand alone, without mat time, as all the exercises you could ever need.

With mat time you have an old school manner of being built properly regardless of weight class.

High rep high volume squats and pushups alongside ample wrestling work, point blank, and with honest effort give you the robust body that God intended you have.

Exact details of your aesthetic do not really matter. Simple hard work builds a rugged man, while a pretty boy is just that, an effeminate step that is shy of rugged man. Weight class is a function of diet.

(I could be anywhere between 185, maybe even 165, and 300+, this all comes down to the amount of feasting and the amount of fasting.)

I’d bet ancient greek PT, the gymnasium, looked a hell of a lot like what goes on in a desi akhara.

Persistence & Tenacity