Posts Tagged ‘Slabs’
Rope Climbs for Serious Upper Body Strength
I read a pretty kick butt post this morning from one of my mentors. He asked a pretty simple question.
When are you strong enough?
I don’t think I’ll ever be strong enough. At least I’ll never think I’m strong enough no matter how much I progress. I guess that’s what will keep me hungry and competing every time I bang on the iron.
I mentioned in one of my last posts about the rope climb being one of my new all time favorites. Rope climbing is one of the toughest things you can do. Doing it with just your arms will get you unbelievably strong. Your forearms and upper back will no doubt get packed with slabs of solid muscle.
Take a look below at some fun I had with climbing ropes recently.
Drop a comment and let me know what you think.
Stay strong.
Bodyweight Brutality and a Challenge
One of the biggest problem areas I see with young athletes and adults alike is a lack of strength with bodyweight movements.
This shouldn’t be surprising actually, since laziness and weakness is engineered into nearly every single piece of “fitness” equipment today. Lay here, sit here, stand here. What ever happened to using the ultimate machine, your body?
I see athletes and adults that can’t do 10 proper pushups and even a single pullup. It drives me insane.
You simply cannot expect to perform at your best if you are not able to move and control your body in space effectively whether you’re a competitive athlete or just a weekend warrior.
If you really want to get strong practice your pushups, pullups, squats, and lunges. A good barometer of where you are on the bodyweight strength meter is being able to perform at least 25 pushups, 5-10 pullups, 50 squats, and 50 lunges. If you can’t hit these numbers, get to crankin’!
My session today finished with a brutal bodyweight challenge. Check it out below.
Get Strong(er) Wk 3 – Day 3
1 – Hang Snatch 5×4
2 – Bench Press 5×4
3a – Thick Rope Recline Rows 100 reps
3b – Pushups 100 reps
Here is the challenge.
Perform 100 reps each of the rows and pushups in as few sets as possible and let me know your results.
Today I finished in 6 rounds.
I need to be stronger than that.
I’m determined to improve.
Crush the bodyweight movements and you’ll be crazy strong, pack on slabs of rugged muscle, and increase your on field/court performance no matter what sport you choose.
Keep killin’ it out there.
Minimalist Training – Wk 1 – Day 3
For the time being I’ve decided to use the KISS principle when it comes to my training. I have everything I need in my 17′x10′ shed plus I have my entire backyard, driveway, and street. What more do you need or could you ask for?
I know most folks will frown upon training this way but I couldn’t care what those posers out there have to say. You can keep your fancy gym, with all your shiny equipment. Now there are some folks that go to these big box gyms that kick major a** and I implore you to keep doing so. However, far too often do folks go to these gyms trolling for a date for Friday night,
slathering themselves with hair gel and make up, checking their phones, sending texts, and basically walking around like they are shopping for groceries. This is NOT REAL WOLD training.
Check out day three from this week’s training cycle below.
Minimalist Training Wk 1 – Day 3
1 – Squat 5×6,6,6,5,4
2 – Deadlift 5×5,3,3,3,3
3 – Sled Sprints 2×75′x6
4a – Recline Row 3xsubmax
4b – Hanging Leg Raise 3×8
4c – Dips 3xsubmax
My body was smoked! This type of training will make you step outside of your comfort zone and pack on slabs of rugged muscle as well as getting you crazy strong!
Don’t be fooled by those fancy places but if you dare to step in one, don’t be afraid to show the posers what REAL WORLD training is all about!
Triple Threat Muscle…Jason Ferruggia does it again!
I’ve studied Jason Ferruggia’s work for over 2 years now. At the time I discovered his work, I’ll admit my training sucked. I was flat out training like a ****** (insert your favorite adjective here). I was doing too much volume, body part splits, not lifting heavy, and doing a bunch of useless cardio. I don’t know what my problem was. I grew up in an awesome dungeon powerlifting gym learning from beasts on how to REALLY train. I guess somewhere along away I got away from my roots, getting wrapped up in all the bullsh*t that’s out there in the strength and fitness world.
While doing a search one night, I came across Jason’s Muscle Gaining Secrets program. I had actually just come across his blog the preceding day and liked what he had to say. The sales page blew me away plus I knew from reading just a few of his articles that he was the real deal when it comes to training. I ordered MSG immediately.
I printed the book and couldn’t put it down. I couldn’t believe it. What I was reading was the type of stuff those monsters who taught me how to train preached. The answer was simple. I got back to basics, followed the MSG templates and about 16 weeks later I had packed on about 10lbs of solid muscle and got leaner than I had ever been. My only regret is that I didn’t snap any before or after pics.
So, when I heard his new product, Triple Threat Muscle was coming out I couldn’t wait to share it with you guys and save some of you from the same mistakes I made for years.
If you’re looking to pack on slabs of lean muscle, get stronger, and more athletic than you’ve been in your life, you have to grab this program now while it’s on sale. For the next three days Triple Threat Muscle is on sale at an unbeatable price considering all the knowledge Jason is giving you.
I’ve read some of the experts’ reviews who where lucky enough to get a copy before it was released. Let me tell you, they are raving about this program and I think you will too.
Get Triple Threat Muscle now and get absolutely jacked.
Muscle Gaining Secrets – A must have for every training library!
Jason Ferruggia is one of my go to guys when it comes to training. He’s one of the best in the industry and for good reason. He’s trained over 700, including 90 from organizations you may have heard of like the NFL, NHL, and MLB. In fact, he’s helped over 53,000 hardgainers and skinny dudes build muscle and add mass all while staying ripped. How does he do it? His book Muscle Gaining Secrets is one of the best training manuals out there. It is a must have for any training library.
I got my copy over 18 months ago and it totally changed the way I was training. It helped me get back to my roots of lifting heavy using compound exercises to pack on slabs of muscle.
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Below is a little taste of the high quality content Jason puts out.
Muscle Building Secrets
By Jason Ferruggia
In the quest to unlock the world’s most powerful muscle building secrets I have tried nearly every training system and diet there ever was. Through many years of trial and error I have finally developed a surefire way to build enormous amounts of muscular size and strength rapidly in even the most painfully skinny hardgainer.
The first thing that needs to be addressed is training session frequency. One look at male gymnasts or Cirque Du Soleil performers will tell you that a higher frequency of training than the typical “once-a-week-per-bodypart” recommendation is in order for rapid muscle growth. Whenever you want to improve something in life you do it frequently. It doesn’t matter if it’s improving your golf swing, learning an instrument or building muscle; you have to do it more than once per week.
The next thing that needs to be looked at is training session length. When you allow your workouts to stretch any longer than 45 minutes, you are actually doing yourself more harm than good. Research has shown that testosterone levels are shot after 45 minutes of training. They actually peak at 27 minutes, so stopping at 30 minutes might even be a better idea. Beyond the 45 minute mark, cortisol production increases dramatically as testosterone levels plummet. Cortisol is the stress hormone and actually eats muscle tissue and increases bodyfat storage.
Another one of the most important muscle building secrets that I have discovered over the years is that it is crucially important to cycle your training. The body eventually adapts to any one set routine after a while. The trick is to switch your routine just before your body starts to adapt to it and your gains come to a halt but not so soon that you don’t allow for significant progress. Switching too often is just as big of a problem as not switching things up often enough. If you constantly switch programs too frequently you will never make steady progress because you will always be confusing your body and you will just end up spinning your wheels.
Some experts argue that overtraining is the biggest problem most drug free lifters face. Others say that undertraining is actually the main problem for those who fall into the hardgainer mindset. The truth is that both camps are right and wrong. You need to push yourself, sometimes to the brink of overtraining, and then adjust things at just the right time and back off for a while. Eventually, if you back off too long, you will enter a state of undertraining. The key is to ramp up your training again before that happens. When you train like this you will never experience plateaus.
Finally, I must point out that no matter how well you cycle and plan your training you will never experience any significant muscle growth if you use the wrong exercises. The most effective exercises are those that allow you to move your body through space (as opposed to just moving your limbs). Those include chin ups, dips, pushups, handstand pushups, inverted rows, squats, single leg squats and deadlifts. Stick with those exercises and their different variations and you will build massive amounts of size and strength.
Now that you have the knowledge it’s time to put these muscle building secrets to work and get your butt to the gym and start growing like a weed.
Good luck and train hard.
Jason Ferruggia is a world famous fitness expert who is renowned for his ability to help people build muscle fast. He is the head training advisor for Men’s Fitness Magazine where he also has his own monthly column dedicated to muscle building. For more great muscle building information, please visit http://www.musclegainingsecrets.com/
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