I have mad respect for the OLDER men who were still respected as strong men. It isn't so difficult to achieve gains, strength, and physique when you are in your 20's but to sustain it into your 40's and 50's is something to truly be admired!!
No, men in their 40s or 50s who continue to use their muscles lose no strength; on the contrary, they are often stronger than their 20 year old semi-boy selves.
Only a young man can think so. I tought similarly when I was under 20. When one man said a man is strognest at 40 I was like this is a complete idiot. But he was so right. Lots of men are still strong at 45 like they were at 25-30 if they live a healthy life and eat quality food.
No cliche there bro.. Your uploaded video is full of researched and practised techniques. There is logic about practices of strengthening human body. Moreover, your narration style is also very friendly. Watching such videos is a treat... Thanks a lot... Wish you good health and good luck
Awesome Possum The mighty atom was his stage name. Real name Joseph S Greenstein. A book called The Mighty Atom by Ed Speilman 1979 pub Secker & Walburg SBN 436 48200 2
There is much to be learned from the old-timers. I was fortunate to have met and learned from some of them before embarking down the road of the performing strongman. I had the rare opportunity to have been asked to bend a steel bar on the bridge of the nose of Mike Greenstein, (the son of the Mighty Atom, who was the strongman at the beginning of this video). I'll actually be doing a Tedx talk about this pretty soon.
Wait...He lost fingers the first time he tried it? Then what? After that, did he think... "Hmmm... I haven't quite mastered catching cannon balls yet. Let me keep trying this!" That's someone with too much time on their hands. And not enough fingers.
My most recent deadlift was the bar and 25#'s (relatively light weight) and walked around the gym (only me there). I would lift and carry it to a spot, set it down, and repeat. I feel its more "real" to do that. I also use 2 50's dumbbells and walk and carry and set down, pick up, and continue so on. It's what you would do in a work setting like on a farm or construction site.
I was lifting weights and i noticed that my triceps were growing as well as my biceps but they both grew too slow then i had noticed that i could focus on which specific muscles to use but i never knew it was a thing
I love your video...I train with stones, logs, chains, dynamic tension, isometrics, home made dumbells and body weight....I do like taking a trip to a gym occasionally, as I started with weights. Thanks for your vid mate. I own the Maxick book. It has helped me a lot,,,much improvement...
Hey I am trying to train similar to you. I believe that the knowledge passed on throughout thousands of years of men building their bodies has more knowledge than something performed in a controlled environment for an 8 month study. If there are any resources like books, videos, knowledge, etc that you could reference to me it’d be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
This is truer than people want to believe. The term hero comes *bad pun* from the worship done by the younger males who wish to have his "essence" and this essence was assumed to be active in the hero's semen. Remember this when buying food products with hero character marketing.
I've actually done a bit of research myself on strong men, and watched a few different conpetitions on tv about them. It is where i first learned about cholesterol being a necessary element of testosterone. I also seen they too had wider hips, not so much worried about having that thin V shaped stomach but generally having a wider base from which to lift from, like them stocky Italians we see in movies. I realized too they have bigger hands, which i thouh was impossible to develop until i loked further into shaolin martial arts. I was before using my palms to strike things (my chief thing to slap was a brick wall here by my apartment), but for now have started using a tree for that purpose. I was also trying to push it as well, which idk why by Ut my body understood the mechanics behind it (i don't question it anymore...). I usually follow what it feels like doing and it always turns out to be a great workout for it. I knkw various different things TO DO, but my body is the best teacher and so i go with what it feels is next.
@@angelrxn5944 feel free to message me on messenger as well (under the same name and picture), I was actually in the process of recollecting information as well, and using what I feel and seen were the best products. From energy drinks, to pre-workout packets and tubs, to the more natural and medicinal plants, And also delving quite a bit into nootropics, i am going to begin writing a manual of sorts, similar to people of old, which will hold what I have learned from many different cultures, and methods executed to bring people to their peak operation.
Joseph Greenstein''The mighty Atom on his autobiography mention he met the Great Gama.He saw him pushing and pulling trees.He knew he never can uproot a tree but told him made to lift another wrestler easy.
As a construction worker I can say I can see some value from these exercises. I have recently decided to start focusing more on arms, shoulders, back and especially grip and Roman deadlifts, plus calves, always calves! One particular movement in particular would be static holds as I do similar stuff to that like hammer drilling above my head.
Oh wow... This video was actually very helpful. I would never of thought to read books of the Eugene sandow days. This is what the body is missing now adays in terms of strength. Great video
EXTRA GROOVY perhaps you increased to fast. Did the same weight (180kg) sets of 5 and had no issues. Hands has already been hardened by years to training no gloves through.
I think im gonna start incorporating this old strongman stuff into my workouts too. Looks cool, and makes sense on how it would lead to more balanced strength gains.
I love your channel man. I use multiple of your techniques and training programs. I'm much stronger and faster than a month ago. I have no limits. All thanks to you
⛔Strong-man characteristics:- 1. Strong grip 2. Mind and muscle control 3. Progressive overload/increase weight gradually 4. Overcoming isometric contraction/pushing or pulling immovable objects 5. One arm lifts
Thanks! And absolutely, I was planning on suggesting the same thing! I shall drop you a message or feel free to hit me up on here/Facebook/Twitter/email (it's on my site) if you get there first! This will be awesome :-)
Good video! Nice to see others (especially younger people) looking into the old styles of training rather than the modern status quo. I'm looking into the great Paul Anderson & Louis Cyrs for training reference right now myself. Very inspirational strength athletes!
+Chris LeRose You are not wrong, in fact this inspiration is the reason that Superman was drawn wearing his pants over his trousers :-) That and it worked to break up the colour palette I imagine!
I honestly always come to your channel for new training methods or information because u really do your research on stuff and don’t just talk bs that some fitness channels make up
Great video! a deadlift is extremely functional at teaching you to use your posterior chain properly and with coordination(also another use of functionality is that it recruits lots and lots of muscles, neck-traps-core-shoulders-lats-hams-forearms-calves-lowerback-etc), you need to bend over and pick stuff all the time, every day, any age, young or elderly why not get better at it by training your deadlift which is still around today so that must mean something, it is worth incorporating.
Also according to most sports performance enhancement textbooks the starting position of the deadlift is referred to as the power stance or universal athletic stance and you see it in many sports football, baseball, track AND THE WILD so even if you're not constantly picking stuff up you might be using this position for a while, hunting, cooking, starting fire, spear fishing etc
formidable: 1 : causing fear, dread, or apprehension a formidable prospect. 2 : having qualities that discourage approach or attack a formidable opponent. 3 : tending to inspire awe or wonder : impressive a formidable accomplishment.
Interesting video. Helpful information and good presentation. I have been incorporating unilateral training for a few weeks. My favourite is the one arm deadlift with the bar simply in front of me. It gives me soreness in places normal deadlifts don't. Plus it's making me stronger at all my pulls. Anyway, keep making these videos.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, these kinds of lifts really do get you aching in new places. And that really highlilghts how useful they are :-D
+Weeblo ooo It's definitely coming up! In the meantime, I wrote a similar blog post on my site about the 'salience network'. Check that out if you're interested and thanks for watching :-)
Weeblo ooo acceptance. is the key, if your thoughts talk shit. talk with your mind like if it other person, and say you just talk shit ajaja works. an empty minds isnt usefull in a reasonable way
Thanks for using the term "Static Contractions". By the way I really enjoy your video series - always interesting - a job well done. I have a collection of over 2000 bodybuilding magizines dating back to 1937. I think you'd have a great time looking at them. Best wishes - Darren Colt (NSP Mr. Germany - Berlin Olympic Games 1936)
I've seen the micro loading done using string and washers. Adding a washer on your max lift. keep adding washers until they add up to the weight of a plate. This was also mentioned in the 80s mag 'Strength Athlete'. I wished I'd kept them. I had them all. Thanks mum! lol
I have been working for 3 years on a new kind of strongman lift that I think I might be the only person able to do it in the world. It's called the chair lift. You sit in a chair while lifting your legs up off the ground and pull on the seat (like a shrug) until you pick the chair up off the ground.
Great content, really! I think we all appreciate the effort and research behind your videos. I'm specially interested in mind-muscle control, there are not so many good videos about in on youtube. Hopefully you can make a video to go into detail about it soon, and you have some cool mind-muscle control yourself, can't wait to see more of it haha
Thank you for the kind words :-) Yes a lot of work went into this one! Mind muscle connection is definitely an area I'm particularly interested in too, so I will be covering it more and from different angles in coming videos for sure.
What you were calling a side press is more of a windmill. They are all in the same family of techniques, but in a windmill you press first and keep the arm locked through the descent, in a bent press you press as you descend, and in a side press you keep your arm bent through the descent and press from the bottom(pressing sideways from your torso). An excellent resource for the bent press is "The Iron Tamer" David Whitley's E-book, Taming the Bent Press.
Adam, the Bent Press and Side Press are best put into starting position by a 2-Hand Clean using an alternating hands grip. The pressing hand with is grasping underhand, while the non-pressing hand grasps overhand. Once you clean the bar to shoulder-height, turn your body 90-degrees from the cleaning direction. Rest the bar on your shoulder while resting the elbow of your pressing arm on your oblique. Adjust your pressing hand so the heel of your palm is under the center of gravity of the bar. It may take 3 or more attempts to find the center of gravity if your bar is not symmetrical. Now, your non-pressing hand can release the bar. Further turn your body so that you are almost 180-degrees from the direction you cleaned the bar. The bar should be behind your head. Keep your eyes on the bar in your hand as you press. Commence pressing.
Cool thanks for the pointers :-D I've been working on this a bit since posting this video, and I think I've improved slightly :-) I hadn't tried the alternating grip, but that makes sense. Will give it a shot!
m.ua-cam.com/video/oFQ1Nzkj0Og/v-deo.html The shouldering method used here was more commonly used by old Time strongmen. It allows you to get your grip set before adding the load and also is less risky when you get more weight on the bar. Plus a mix grip clean would take a lot longer to get used to.
at 8:04 i guess you are talking about The Great Gama Pehelvan indian wrestler who used to tie his belly with tree trunk and try to pull to as he was trying to pull the tree off ground !
Just wanted to say i discovered your channel last month but just recently started watching your vidoes consistently. You give so much good advice and information. I feel like your channel is going to grow fast! Keep up the good work.
I do more let say practical feats, I bend nails, scrues, old wrenches, lift small cars with backside, and lift different weights with one finger. I think ghis is good for stamina and health.
The Side Press and Back Lift were two other popular lifts. Odd object lifting, keg, barrel, and sandbag lifting, and stone lifting. I'm getting into Scottish Highland games, so that might be an interesting indeavor of strength to for you to pursue.
otto arco. maxick. alan calvert,matysek a lot of old strenght exponents use muscle control is pretty cool. Im not a fitness guy but I do a lot of muscle control. dynamic tension and calisthenics. my inspiration is bobby pandour. that guy know what he do
@@ericglasgow7087 strongmen were known to train high rep low weight and that’s what Bruce incorporated into his routine. He could definitely lift more than 100 lol
Deadlift is definitely a very useful functional movement. But that said, in the actual wild, we wouldn't really have picked all that much up. Our own kids would probably have been the heaviest things. And even now, most of the time when we lift something heavy, it's not off the ground with deadlifting form (IMO). Unless you're in removals...
I have a business that involves alot of lifting. Deadlifts have helped tremendously. I find myself setting up like a deadlift to pick something up off the ground. I can see how some of these unique lifts would be helpful too. Alot of times it's not easy to setup like a safe lift when working.
I think what the Bioneer means here is that there aren't perfect barbells in the wild where you're going to be picking up weight off the ground in perfect deadlift form. Your going to be picking up awkward objects and sometimes multiple objects at once and it will not always be in the perfect position as a deadlift. He isn't saying that deadlifts aren't beneficial or that you don't pick stuff up by bending over.
Your vids are fantastic mate. I believe it in fully 100% lifting weights in awkward positions is true functional ability. I noticed when I was working that even though I regularly lifted weights and gained a decent amount of muscle that I was so weak in certain positions and In fact I thought at one point that the weights may be weakening me maybe I was not recovering well enough. Somebody asked in a forum once “how on Earth was Bruce lee so damn strong?” And my opinion on that is simple “because he was so damn skilled” I firmly believe that strength is skill all the other attributes come together when you have developed skill. I found this video to be extremely interesting and would really like to meet you one day I live in England and would most certainly be willing to pay for an hour of your time along with driving to you.
Bioneer, then you would appreciate a man who did all the research and has great honour and respect for those same old time warriors, an Author by the name Paul Wade. He wrote a two-book Convict Conditioning series on those old-school techniques. I have both books myself and I'm in the process of learning the Dragon Flag, One-handed Handstand pushup and the fingertip pushup. I am a student of the old ways. Get a copy and learn even more and deeper on the old school. I have little to no respect for the new school and science and anatomy and biology are all in favor of the old school which is also explored in Paul Wade's book.
The Bioneer You’re Welcome. A lot of the strong men you mentioned I already knew about because they were in Paul Wade’s books as he explained their superiority. I’m progressing toward the feats I mentioned too. Calisthenics are amazing and free just as you said. Also, If you have any questions on diet and recovery I can happily share my own experience too. Happy learning~ 🙂
I'd love to know the name of the long hair strongman who doesn't smoke or drink. He sounds like a great man I'd love to learn more about him but sadly don't know his name.
I'm 53 yrs old..and I've been training the sholin way aswell as Concrete training..please try this for massive girth to ligaments and tendons..I work out by arm wrestling a 500lbs steel beam and lift pure concrete bricks with my palms and fingers..aswell as farmers walk with 80lbs bricks used as pavers so wide only can be held with four fingers..incredible for grip and overall performance
maybe lifting heavy weights in a unusual way is a effecive method to gain stength, but its propably also working down your joints real fast and maybe causing injuries so keep that in mind.
Strongmen knew that With powerful hands hands they they new the key of irridation the tendons and ligaments of the hands activate the power of the arms it’s like flipping a switch and all of the wires spark to bring light 💡
I love this channel so much..I started a channel a few months ago and one of my goals is to collaborate in the future as I grow bigger. See you at the top!
I do squat presses with dumbbells all the time. I have absurdly strong legs and walk around all day and night or bike. I have such a hard time to tire out my legs so I don't kick around in bed so I find these ways to challenge my legs more.
My way of training is: Just grab anything you see and pull it up. Do that whenever you have a second. Made good gains from that. (I am also training with pull ups, push ups etc.)
Hey maybe you could do a video on how the old time strongmen could train whole body daily up to 6 or even 7 days a week and still increase strength and muscle size
i remember reading something about drifting strongman that made tours around country .one of which had a interesting way of exercising the muscle of the neck by hanging himself .His neiboughrs would find him hanging from a tree and get all worried he hanged himself .while he was exercising his neck muscles
you forgot the ''bilateral deficit'', the phenomenon that the weight you can lift with one limb(that has a symmetrical counterpart) will be less per limb if you do the same exercise with the two symmetrical limbs at a time
Build energy! Often a lack of motivation comes from low energy. If you work a tough job, or if you generally feel down, then it can be hard to find the will to do something active in the evenings.
I came across your content just a few weeks ago and watched two of them today. It's very useful n u do it without any hype or other unnecessary. I thought u can make several videos with your content so that you can stay in touch with us the subscribers more after watching untapped strength series
Yes I’m on the same or similar type of idea that you’re looking into. My latest workouts have been with the medicine balls balancing on two or one doing push-ups with your feet on one ball and one leg up in the air or do it with a rope where you hold one rope in your hand and the other is on the ground and the two legs are on the Rope trying to do push-ups or vice versa with the ball. The medicine ball has been a good workout and it’s own. At first when you You first do it you think you did not get a workout but the second time you go into it the balance instability in the court has completely changed.
I have mad respect for the OLDER men who were still respected as strong men. It isn't so difficult to achieve gains, strength, and physique when you are in your 20's but to sustain it into your 40's and 50's is something to truly be admired!!
No, men in their 40s or 50s who continue to use their muscles lose no strength; on the contrary, they are often stronger than their 20 year old semi-boy selves.
@@itzakehrenberg3449 Fully agreed, especially if you are truly avoiding bad habits like eating alcohol and drinking sugar
Only a young man can think so. I tought similarly when I was under 20. When one man said a man is strognest at 40 I was like this is a complete idiot. But he was so right. Lots of men are still strong at 45 like they were at 25-30 if they live a healthy life and eat quality food.
Old school is where its at. When you consider what these guys were doing, drug free, its hard not to be totally inspired.
Shows that the human body is kind of limitless
No cliche there bro.. Your uploaded video is full of researched and practised techniques. There is logic about practices of strengthening human body. Moreover, your narration style is also very friendly. Watching such videos is a treat... Thanks a lot... Wish you good health and good luck
Thanks a lot :-D Really glad you enjoyed it!
4:08 - 4:18 that's how you get all the ladies.
Haha! For some reason it never seems to work... Maybe I need an even more extreme eyeball trick!
The Bioneer I can look at my nose with one eye and look upward with another
I didn't see his eyes moving and I was wondering why the heck he was hitting himself in the head
I train my ears. I started with a 5×5 before moving on to the Texas Method. Now I carry a calf with my ears.
Haha! That is the dream. Calf earrings.
Ear power
Lmao imagine being born just to be lifted by strongman
Golden Kakashka tbh I wouldn't mind
😂
Noice
@Mik 😂
Calf probably served it's purpose later
As steak or providing milk lmao
Two of the greatest strong men practiced ISO. One was Alexander Zass and the other was The Great Gama, check them out, if your interested in ISO.
The Great Gama was the one who tried to push trees out the ground as well
Thx
Is that where calf raises came from
Delta skelta genius
"Nights by playing COD in stuffy rooms" makes brain properly register what he said, "cards"
Lol! Dude was ahead of his time!
Aizen Kazama Close enough considering its the modern past time
Playing cod in ''stuffy'' (weed smoke) filled rooms
possibly a dumb question, but does anyone know his name?
Awesome Possum The mighty atom was his stage name. Real name Joseph S Greenstein. A book called The Mighty Atom by Ed Speilman 1979 pub Secker & Walburg SBN 436 48200 2
In martial arts. they would push their hands into pots of sand, finger tips first, and then clench their fist.
To strengthen the grip.
Read 72 arts of Shaolin. It has a lot of the type of stuff in it
Knuckle push ups, strong grips come from isometrically clenching your hands into a fist shape.
That's conditioning
For anyone reading, don't do this. It messes up your hands and kills the nerves. Use rice instead. Much better results.
There is much to be learned from the old-timers. I was fortunate to have met and learned from some of them before embarking down the road of the performing strongman. I had the rare opportunity to have been asked to bend a steel bar on the bridge of the nose of Mike Greenstein, (the son of the Mighty Atom, who was the strongman at the beginning of this video). I'll actually be doing a Tedx talk about this pretty soon.
Any update on the tedx talk and if the event was recorded and uploaded somewhere?
@@R15Kl3R ua-cam.com/video/sr83vTmAFqA/v-deo.html 🙂
@@R15Kl3Rhey didn’t see this till just now. It’s actually here on UA-cam, it’s actually on my channel
Wait...He lost fingers the first time he tried it? Then what? After that, did he think... "Hmmm... I haven't quite mastered catching cannon balls yet. Let me keep trying this!"
That's someone with too much time on their hands. And not enough fingers.
It just went out of his hands, I would say.
Oh he said cannonballs?? I thought he said cannibals - man why would a person try a second time if the first time you lose a few digits.....
😂😂😂😂😂
No fingers no chance of losing fingers
That is someone who would be like the terminator if they were coming after you
My most recent deadlift was the bar and 25#'s (relatively light weight) and walked around the gym (only me there). I would lift and carry it to a spot, set it down, and repeat. I feel its more "real" to do that. I also use 2 50's dumbbells and walk and carry and set down, pick up, and continue so on. It's what you would do in a work setting like on a farm or construction site.
Ive started training isometrics for days and it felt different... my muscles have gone harder than beforem
I was lifting weights and i noticed that my triceps were growing as well as my biceps but they both grew too slow then i had noticed that i could focus on which specific muscles to use but i never knew it was a thing
Yup, that's muscle control :-D Ideally, you want to relax the triceps during a curl to maximize your strength.
I love your video...I train with stones, logs, chains, dynamic tension, isometrics, home made dumbells and body weight....I do like taking a trip to a gym occasionally, as I started with weights. Thanks for your vid mate. I own the Maxick book. It has helped me a lot,,,much improvement...
Thanks man, and your training sounds awesome!
Hey I am trying to train similar to you. I believe that the knowledge passed on throughout thousands of years of men building their bodies has more knowledge than something performed in a controlled environment for an 8 month study. If there are any resources like books, videos, knowledge, etc that you could reference to me it’d be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
No protein shakes those days either!
Just good old eggs!
Hallows Victim no man you r missing out trust me
Naptown Squid Big if true
Waked Stoat sheesh man you sound like a closet gay boy
This is truer than people want to believe. The term hero comes *bad pun* from the worship done by the younger males who wish to have his "essence" and this essence was assumed to be active in the hero's semen. Remember this when buying food products with hero character marketing.
I've actually done a bit of research myself on strong men, and watched a few different conpetitions on tv about them. It is where i first learned about cholesterol being a necessary element of testosterone. I also seen they too had wider hips, not so much worried about having that thin V shaped stomach but generally having a wider base from which to lift from, like them stocky Italians we see in movies. I realized too they have bigger hands, which i thouh was impossible to develop until i loked further into shaolin martial arts. I was before using my palms to strike things (my chief thing to slap was a brick wall here by my apartment), but for now have started using a tree for that purpose. I was also trying to push it as well, which idk why by
Ut my body understood the mechanics behind it (i don't question it anymore...). I usually follow what it feels like doing and it always turns out to be a great workout for it. I knkw various different things TO DO, but my body is the best teacher and so i go with what it feels is next.
Very interesting. I myself wanted to gain pure strength, not just muscles. I'm recollecting information but I think I get the point.
@@angelrxn5944 feel free to message me on messenger as well (under the same name and picture), I was actually in the process of recollecting information as well, and using what I feel and seen were the best products. From energy drinks, to pre-workout packets and tubs, to the more natural and medicinal plants, And also delving quite a bit into nootropics, i am going to begin writing a manual of sorts, similar to people of old, which will hold what I have learned from many different cultures, and methods executed to bring people to their peak operation.
it was the great gamma (the indian wrestler) who push and pull trees
Yeees! That's it! I did look and couldn't find the reference. Thanks a lot! :-D
Joseph Greenstein''The mighty Atom on his autobiography mention he met the Great Gama.He saw him pushing and pulling trees.He knew he never can uproot a tree but told him made to lift another wrestler easy.
Sorry,Ed Spielman wrote the biography of Joseph Greenstein''The mighty atom''you can purchase from Amazon.
As a construction worker I can say I can see some value from these exercises. I have recently decided to start focusing more on arms, shoulders, back and especially grip and Roman deadlifts, plus calves, always calves! One particular movement in particular would be static holds as I do similar stuff to that like hammer drilling above my head.
I️ love this topic, I️ did a 45 min PowerPoint presentation with around 50 slides as my graduation project in high school last year!
I stopped training two years ago after 10 years of training. I got bored. I'm doing this in the morning before work... A whole new world!! Thanks pal!
0:59 Words to live by... still applies nearly a century later
Oh wow... This video was actually very helpful. I would never of thought to read books of the Eugene sandow days. This is what the body is missing now adays in terms of strength. Great video
Thanks, I'm glad! Yeah, there's a lot to learn from those guys :-)
You want a stronger grip? Deadlift without straps and HEAVY!!!!
I used to lift around 400lbs no gloves or straps, my palms would end up bleeding lol
EXTRA GROOVY perhaps you increased to fast. Did the same weight (180kg) sets of 5 and had no issues. Hands has already been hardened by years to training no gloves through.
Jeeses99 you do realize that the belt is to prevent hernias right? No amount of core will stop a hernia
I think im gonna start incorporating this old strongman stuff into my workouts too. Looks cool, and makes sense on how it would lead to more balanced strength gains.
Ive been trying to wrap my head around that bent press! Thanks for showing how its generally done 👌
I love your channel man. I use multiple of your techniques and training programs. I'm much stronger and faster than a month ago. I have no limits. All thanks to you
Yo man you are the GOAT for compiling this information I swear, this is the channel ive been looking for
⛔Strong-man characteristics:-
1. Strong grip
2. Mind and muscle control
3. Progressive overload/increase weight gradually
4. Overcoming isometric contraction/pushing or pulling immovable objects
5. One arm lifts
Wrap around the towel around the bar was the best tip for me. I also like to do finger push ups or pullups. Awesome vid, man! Interested in collab?
Thanks! And absolutely, I was planning on suggesting the same thing! I shall drop you a message or feel free to hit me up on here/Facebook/Twitter/email (it's on my site) if you get there first! This will be awesome :-)
If you really want a strong grip do your pull ups on vertical hanging metal chain links
WilliamDavid ImpacFit Training Would a chain swing set at a park work fine?
ear wiggling is actually hereditary so is folding and fliping your toung
Siim Land still haven't seen your physique
Good video! Nice to see others (especially younger people) looking into the old styles of training rather than the modern status quo. I'm looking into the great Paul Anderson & Louis Cyrs for training reference right now myself. Very inspirational strength athletes!
This is sort of related to the goal of being more like Batman. I can't imagine super-heroes existing without these old-timey dudes paving the way.
+Chris LeRose You are not wrong, in fact this inspiration is the reason that Superman was drawn wearing his pants over his trousers :-) That and it worked to break up the colour palette I imagine!
Sig Klein and his tiger bends were incredible.
I honestly always come to your channel for new training methods or information because u really do your research on stuff and don’t just talk bs that some fitness channels make up
Great video! a deadlift is extremely functional at teaching you to use your posterior chain properly and with coordination(also another use of functionality is that it recruits lots and lots of muscles, neck-traps-core-shoulders-lats-hams-forearms-calves-lowerback-etc), you need to bend over and pick stuff all the time, every day, any age, young or elderly why not get better at it by training your deadlift which is still around today so that must mean something, it is worth incorporating.
Also according to most sports performance enhancement textbooks the starting position of the deadlift is referred to as the power stance or universal athletic stance and you see it in many sports football, baseball, track AND THE WILD so even if you're not constantly picking stuff up you might be using this position for a while, hunting, cooking, starting fire, spear fishing etc
formidable: 1 : causing fear, dread, or apprehension a formidable prospect. 2 : having qualities that discourage approach or attack a formidable opponent. 3 : tending to inspire awe or wonder : impressive a formidable accomplishment.
Interesting video. Helpful information and good presentation.
I have been incorporating unilateral training for a few weeks. My favourite is the one arm deadlift with the bar simply in front of me. It gives me soreness in places normal deadlifts don't. Plus it's making me stronger at all my pulls.
Anyway, keep making these videos.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, these kinds of lifts really do get you aching in new places. And that really highlilghts how useful they are :-D
Could you make a video about brain taming? Like focus training, how you can force your brain to focus on what you want and avoid distractions.
+Weeblo ooo It's definitely coming up! In the meantime, I wrote a similar blog post on my site about the 'salience network'. Check that out if you're interested and thanks for watching :-)
Just finished reading it and it helped, but what about getting distracted by disturbing thoughts? The inner thoughts of the mind
Try meditation
first step, close fb, then stop looking n comment videos about it,
Weeblo ooo acceptance. is the key, if your thoughts talk shit. talk with your mind like if it other person, and say you just talk shit ajaja works. an empty minds isnt usefull in a reasonable way
Thank you for saying that “new is not always better”, because it is not always is!!!
gamma,he is the man who pushes trees for isometrics he is a diffrent beast
Thanks! Maybe I'll do a video all about him in future, seems like a fascinating character!
Just tried some of sandows exercises and im quite excited. Bery interesting dude thanks for the vid
Thanks for using the term "Static Contractions". By the way I really enjoy your video series - always interesting - a job well done. I have a collection of over 2000 bodybuilding magizines dating back to 1937. I think you'd have a great time looking at them. Best wishes - Darren Colt (NSP Mr. Germany - Berlin Olympic Games 1936)
I've seen the micro loading done using string and washers. Adding a washer on your max lift. keep adding washers until they add up to the weight of a plate. This was also mentioned in the 80s mag 'Strength Athlete'. I wished I'd kept them. I had them all. Thanks mum! lol
Micro loading?
Great video, very informative. Not just the usual rehash of same old stuff
Thanks :-D
You're the David Blaine of strength, diving into the wisdom of generations past that everyone else discarded
10:15 I do it at my job a lot actually. There’s a cart that needs to be pulled over a ledge and it usually has feed bags on it
I have been working for 3 years on a new kind of strongman lift that I think I might be the only person able to do it in the world. It's called the chair lift. You sit in a chair while lifting your legs up off the ground and pull on the seat (like a shrug) until you pick the chair up off the ground.
Haha! I think Professor X can do that one
The Bioneer damn I'm not the only one. Nice channel btw, very well put together and informative with a nice mix of comedy.
Great content, really! I think we all appreciate the effort and research behind your videos. I'm specially interested in mind-muscle control, there are not so many good videos about in on youtube. Hopefully you can make a video to go into detail about it soon, and you have some cool mind-muscle control yourself, can't wait to see more of it haha
Thank you for the kind words :-) Yes a lot of work went into this one! Mind muscle connection is definitely an area I'm particularly interested in too, so I will be covering it more and from different angles in coming videos for sure.
What you were calling a side press is more of a windmill. They are all in the same family of techniques, but in a windmill you press first and keep the arm locked through the descent, in a bent press you press as you descend, and in a side press you keep your arm bent through the descent and press from the bottom(pressing sideways from your torso). An excellent resource for the bent press is "The Iron Tamer" David Whitley's E-book, Taming the Bent Press.
Youre a genuine kind sincere guy.wth a young wise head..
Thanks man, glad you're enjoying the content :-D
The Bioneer ya welcome!!
versatility is my core principle in training, you just widened my view on this, subbed
Adam, the Bent Press and Side Press are best put into starting position by a 2-Hand Clean using an alternating hands grip. The pressing hand with is grasping underhand, while the non-pressing hand grasps overhand. Once you clean the bar to shoulder-height, turn your body 90-degrees from the cleaning direction. Rest the bar on your shoulder while resting the elbow of your pressing arm on your oblique. Adjust your pressing hand so the heel of your palm is under the center of gravity of the bar. It may take 3 or more attempts to find the center of gravity if your bar is not symmetrical. Now, your non-pressing hand can release the bar. Further turn your body so that you are almost 180-degrees from the direction you cleaned the bar. The bar should be behind your head. Keep your eyes on the bar in your hand as you press. Commence pressing.
Cool thanks for the pointers :-D I've been working on this a bit since posting this video, and I think I've improved slightly :-) I hadn't tried the alternating grip, but that makes sense. Will give it a shot!
m.ua-cam.com/video/oFQ1Nzkj0Og/v-deo.html The shouldering method used here was more commonly used by old Time strongmen. It allows you to get your grip set before adding the load and also is less risky when you get more weight on the bar. Plus a mix grip clean would take a lot longer to get used to.
at 8:04 i guess you are talking about The Great Gama Pehelvan indian wrestler who used to tie his belly with tree trunk and try to pull to as he was trying to pull the tree off ground !
Thank you! :-D
Adam Sinicki gama did lift 1200 KG STONE. His training was high rep Hindu pushup and squats (with 95 kg ring around the neck)
The Mighty Atom asked The Great Gama why he tried to throw down a tree. Gamma said "After a tree, a man is easy".
He was a Muslim
Berserk Baahu before partiton ??
Just wanted to say i discovered your channel last month but just recently started watching your vidoes consistently. You give so much good advice and information. I feel like your channel is going to grow fast! Keep up the good work.
I do more let say practical feats, I bend nails, scrues, old wrenches, lift small cars with backside, and lift different weights with one finger. I think ghis is good for stamina and health.
The Side Press and Back Lift were two other popular lifts. Odd object lifting, keg, barrel, and sandbag lifting, and stone lifting. I'm getting into Scottish Highland games, so that might be an interesting indeavor of strength to for you to pursue.
otto arco. maxick. alan calvert,matysek a lot of old strenght exponents use muscle control is pretty cool. Im not a fitness guy but I do a lot of muscle control. dynamic tension and calisthenics. my inspiration is bobby pandour. that guy know what he do
Awesome insight. Keep up the good work, i look forward to learning more.
I think it’s safe to say that Bruce Lee was the last old-time strongman, he had everything from ultimate strength and combat skills.
He almost never lifted more then 100 pounds in his training routine Bruce Lee was just very fast in his movements.
No not at all
@@ericglasgow7087 strongmen were known to train high rep low weight and that’s what Bruce incorporated into his routine. He could definitely lift more than 100 lol
Good video man! Will be trying some of these lifts.
Thanks! Good luck :-D
How often do you do a deadlift in the wild?... Everytime u pick something up off the ground
Deadlift is definitely a very useful functional movement. But that said, in the actual wild, we wouldn't really have picked all that much up. Our own kids would probably have been the heaviest things. And even now, most of the time when we lift something heavy, it's not off the ground with deadlifting form (IMO). Unless you're in removals...
I have a business that involves alot of lifting. Deadlifts have helped tremendously. I find myself setting up like a deadlift to pick something up off the ground. I can see how some of these unique lifts would be helpful too. Alot of times it's not easy to setup like a safe lift when working.
I think what the Bioneer means here is that there aren't perfect barbells in the wild where you're going to be picking up weight off the ground in perfect deadlift form. Your going to be picking up awkward objects and sometimes multiple objects at once and it will not always be in the perfect position as a deadlift.
He isn't saying that deadlifts aren't beneficial or that you don't pick stuff up by bending over.
@@Rottweiler_girlyyup. Sandbags are great for that.
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Your vids are fantastic mate. I believe it in fully 100% lifting weights in awkward positions is true functional ability. I noticed when I was working that even though I regularly lifted weights and gained a decent amount of muscle that I was so weak in certain positions and In fact I thought at one point that the weights may be weakening me maybe I was not recovering well enough. Somebody asked in a forum once “how on Earth was Bruce lee so damn strong?” And my opinion on that is simple “because he was so damn skilled” I firmly believe that strength is skill all the other attributes come together when you have developed skill. I found this video to be extremely interesting and would really like to meet you one day I live in England and would most certainly be willing to pay for an hour of your time along with driving to you.
Alexander zass needs to be in the list.
@ 9:13 the tie has defied the laws of physics
It's called a bent press. You can find people doing it on youtube.
Ken MacMillan i know that ken... i was mentioning the tie the man wore
HipsterBot the tie was clipped to his shirt so it wouldnt move
Called a tie clip.
People i know its held in place.. have a sense of humour lol
Bioneer, then you would appreciate a man who did all the research and has great honour and respect for those same old time warriors, an Author by the name Paul Wade. He wrote a two-book Convict Conditioning series on those old-school techniques. I have both books myself and I'm in the process of learning the Dragon Flag, One-handed Handstand pushup and the fingertip pushup. I am a student of the old ways. Get a copy and learn even more and deeper on the old school. I have little to no respect for the new school and science and anatomy and biology are all in favor of the old school which is also explored in Paul Wade's book.
I have not read it and it sounds great, thanks a lot for the tip. I'll definitely look into that one :-D
The Bioneer You’re Welcome. A lot of the strong men you mentioned I already knew about because they were in Paul Wade’s books as he explained their superiority. I’m progressing toward the feats I mentioned too. Calisthenics are amazing and free just as you said. Also, If you have any questions on diet and recovery I can happily share my own experience too. Happy learning~ 🙂
I'd love to know the name of the long hair strongman who doesn't smoke or drink. He sounds like a great man I'd love to learn more about him but sadly don't know his name.
That's The Mighty Atom
AKA Joseph Greenstein. There is a great book about his life by Ed Spielman.
I'm 53 yrs old..and I've been training the sholin way aswell as Concrete training..please try this for massive girth to ligaments and tendons..I work out by arm wrestling a 500lbs steel beam and lift pure concrete bricks with my palms and fingers..aswell as farmers walk with 80lbs bricks used as pavers so wide only can be held with four fingers..incredible for grip and overall performance
The best thing i have seen on UA-cam so far
maybe lifting heavy weights in a unusual way is a effecive method to gain stength, but its propably also working down your joints real fast and maybe causing injuries so keep that in mind.
You should look into the Light Dumbbell System, it’s a very fascinating muscle building routine.
The windmill lift. Thanks!😃👍🏻💪🏻🎄
Strongmen knew that With powerful hands hands they they new the key of irridation the tendons and ligaments of the hands activate the power of the arms it’s like flipping a switch and all of the wires spark to bring light 💡
I love this channel so much..I started a channel a few months ago and one of my goals is to collaborate in the future as I grow bigger. See you at the top!
Very informative gives me a new prspective for my trainig Old Rob . Thanks
Lifting weights, it's great. Mma fighting is one that involves great amounts of overall strength.
You mentioned one hand lifts. My former chiropractor said you should do single arm exercises to gain more mind/body connection.
That guy at the beginning was between the eyes and the bullet didnt penetrate. He was crazy powerful.
I Just love your content, ever tought on trying some judo or wrestling? for what I have searched, they share roots with strongman workouts.
Well done! A nice informative video, you have done your homework.~
I do squat presses with dumbbells all the time. I have absurdly strong legs and walk around all day and night or bike. I have such a hard time to tire out my legs so I don't kick around in bed so I find these ways to challenge my legs more.
My way of training is: Just grab anything you see and pull it up. Do that whenever you have a second. Made good gains from that. (I am also training with pull ups, push ups etc.)
nice re - searching...!! more people need to know about this..!!
good work bro..!! 👍
Hey maybe you could do a video on how the old time strongmen could train whole body daily up to 6 or even 7 days a week and still increase strength and muscle size
i remember reading something about drifting strongman that made tours around country .one of which had a interesting way of exercising the muscle of the neck by hanging himself .His neiboughrs would find him hanging from a tree and get all worried he hanged himself .while he was exercising his neck muscles
Wow that's awesome! I'm thinking of doing a video on neck strength sometimes, so I'll look it up! Thanks :-)
did some shrugs last week with some 50# dumbbells and felt it from my upper back through my shoulders, and up my neck.
This is the type of content I was looking for thanks.
you forgot the ''bilateral deficit'', the phenomenon that the weight you can lift with one limb(that has a symmetrical counterpart) will be less per limb if you do the same exercise with the two symmetrical limbs at a time
Good outlook on concepts. You always have some good presentations. Keep researching and sharing.
Great video... Keep the good work.
Thanks a lot :-D I shall try!
Awesome video. Just earned another subscriber. 💪🏾
Sweet thanks, and welcome to the channel!
this was really an interesting video, thx for sharing
MAXICK! I just need motivation to do this....i feel so inspired to work out like this but no motivation i hate it lol
Build energy! Often a lack of motivation comes from low energy. If you work a tough job, or if you generally feel down, then it can be hard to find the will to do something active in the evenings.
Mutsu Hanma watch for your nutrition and work out, works wonders for ,high energy and motivation
Great video bro!
I came across your content just a few weeks ago and watched two of them today. It's very useful n u do it without any hype or other unnecessary. I thought u can make several videos with your content so that you can stay in touch with us the subscribers more after watching untapped strength series
Yes I’m on the same or similar type of idea that you’re looking into. My latest workouts have been with the medicine balls balancing on two or one doing push-ups with your feet on one ball and one leg up in the air or do it with a rope where you hold one rope in your hand and the other is on the ground and the two legs are on the Rope trying to do push-ups or vice versa with the ball. The medicine ball has been a good workout and it’s own. At first when you You first do it you think you did not get a workout but the second time you go into it the balance instability in the court has completely changed.
This was so interesting and I learned a lot. Can't wait to try the squatting press and for the looks at the gym I will get while performing it.
Their tendons were very strong and healthy.
you've gotten much better at making videos this felt a like clunky then i checked the date
Excellent video! I love this type of training!