Month: September 2022

You’ll get brutally strong with nothing but a barbell.

No one, and I mean no one (outside of maybe Klokov or similar), has truly maxed out a 300lb weight set.

It’s better to think outside of the weight room, and realize that hard labor has made more men strong through human history than the gym ever has.

The barbell deadlift carry is a wonderfully awful thing, as is how the forearms are trained with high rep hang cleans.

I pressed 150lbs for 10, then did a couple sets of hang cleans.

“Only 150lbs” many would say, I’d up the ante daring them to match my sets.

Most aren’t going to overhead press worth a damn, which is a shame, as the iron game was a better place before I was born when people regularly put weight overhead.

As dictator of earth I’d make everyone clean & press.

At present my #1 training goal, and possibly #1 thing in life is to press 225lbs.

It’s a weight room goal I’ve long long long had, still unachieved.

It’s close.

The approach is working ;
One set of presses each day at a minimum, more than one set when the mood strikes, and to tack hang cleans on when that mood strikes.

Heck, I could do a set once in the morning, once in the evening easily enough.

A major perk of having weights at home.

The pressing is getting easy.

Since I do everything from the ground, it’s actually more important for me to diesel up my power cleans.

I am built to press.

Thinking labor strength, thinking brute force, the answer here is hang clean for reps.

I keep it simple, just doing some with whatever weight I happen to have pressed.

If I am to feel really fancy I’ll have done some plate pinches before the olys.

That works for me as a serious primer for the grip.

To all who think one weight across all barbell lifts is not weighing it down enough, I raise you the fact that ANYONE with a 300lb c&p is going to be strong enough to get away with never going past 300lbs.

They won’t need it.

Realizing this, suddenly a 300lb weight set, and some ground anywhere is a gym with unlimited potential.

Blend that barbell with old time weightlifting, girevoy, and you’re really onto something.

bigger #s on video soonest

Persistence & Tenacity

Notes To Self :
•every lift feels 10% easier while chomping down on a $2 mouth guard
•dude, you lift like a fucking caveman, you’re brute upper body strength, try actually squeezing your ass and thighs
•hang clean – more, more, MORE! bro
•this pointedly eating thing is working nicely, this typed up, it’s time to cook some delicious delicious red meat with, if we’re being honest, pierogi.

I feel like a ground beef, onions, and gravy poured over the stuff.