Pick Simple & Run With It :
Struggling in the gym?
I guarantee you, 100%, you’ve overcomplicated it.
Consider bodybuilding advice to hit many exercises for many sets and powerlifting’s obsession with technique-fu for the poisoned Kool-Aid they are.
Anything that makes it more complicated…drop it.
Throw that overcomplication into the fire.
WHERE IT BELONGS.
You don’t need it.
There’s very little money to be had via calisthenics, a barbell, pullup bar, dip bar, power rack.
That’s the truth. A squat or bench or deadlift is only complicated for a powerlifter via technique-fu, ego, or $$$.
However there’s limitless results to be had from the same list.
Take away as many moving parts as you can.
Training can be kept to 3 movements even less.
Cover upper body push, a pull (which can encompass upper body or both upper and lower), and a lower body movement.
Set. Golden. Fine.
50 reps of the power clean in 20 minutes (Bryce Lane style density training) will give superior results to whatever is trendy.
I’ve done phenomenally on pushups alone.
How many pieces do I have right now in the training puzzle?
6.
Pushup
Overhead Squat
Neck Harness
One Arm Press (Barbell)
Pullup w/Flexed Arm Hang
One Arm Row (Total Gym)
(And with spring in the air the addition of cardio. Call it 7, add in jump rope.)
I have the best strength of my life, good explosiveness, and I know cardio takes 3 weeks to reattain.
Physical fitness is best attained on a simple path drenched in sweat with a thumping heart.
Persistence & Tenacity
(From the archives : 3/21/19)