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10/29/19
Stocky, not lean, with a thick midsection where the hint of abs is present. I look in the mirror and see a physique similar in appearance to the Great Gama’s.
This makes sense really as I do a massive amount of pushups, view hindu squats as a staple, rounding it out with lots of full body calisthenics, a decent dose of ab work, neck work, and forearm work.
Lots of calisthenics and big eating will make you big, strong, and athletic. It won’t make you look like a bodybuilder, it’ll make you look like a heavyweight wrestler.
Combine that with mat time, and you’re dangerous, having spent a lot of sweat equity, though at little financial cost.
The two years I wrestled in high school cost a total of $30 – a pair of black Asics Matflex 2s that were on the clearance rack, last year’s model.
They in total lasted me 5 years of heavy usage, being put into their last days by first a seriously sharp rock and then a nail attached to a board left on the sidewalk by a sloppy contractor while walking vegas streets.
(I ran, lifted, put the shot, even wore them as street shoes for 5 years. The Matflex 4s replacing them can be summed up in a word…garbage. When I tossed the Matflex 2s they were in better overall condition, just a small amount of duct tape to close a hole on them, than the Matflex 4s became after less than one year of light weight room usage. Asics Matflex 2s are a great shoe for a wrestler with a wide foot, the Matflex 4s are garbage, my pinky toes putting holes in them worse than a sharp rock and a nail had done to the Matflex 2s.)
Having wrestled I always kept my head into it. I researched traditional wrestling the world over.
I’ve learned a lot from kushti.
My training philosophy is something of an amalgamation of research and experimentation with the methodologies of kushti, military PT, and the workouts inside CDC prisons.
Wrestlers are often stocky, so with enough height by eating and training in emulation of heavyweight wrestlers one can grow as muscularly large as nature allows.
Look particularly at sumo, but you can see this worldwide, throughout history.
Physicality alongside big calories makes a robust man.
It needn’t be fancy.
Eat well. Train hard. No excuses. Do it forever & always.
Persistence & Tenacity