The Basics Build Over all Conditioning

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Most people think that building a high level of
physical fitness and strength comes from training
when they feel like it. Physical fitness never has
or never will be built on a when I feel like training
attitude.

True physical fitness is built over a life time of
sweat and punishment and the rewards are amazing.

Everyday I have people emailing me and telling me
how just changing a few things here and there their
level of physical fitness has soared.

It’s always been about the doing the basics, about
working hard on the simple things and doing a lot
of the simple things.

Some times I think people are looking for the exercise
that will be the answer to all answers and it’s an answer
you will continue to look for.

Every foundation is built on something basic and then
built on from then on. People thinking they trained hard
today and that I will take off to rest my body is not
always the best answer.

I did a simple basic exercise hitting a lot of muscles
as well as working on athleticism.

Jump rope 100 times – Bear Crawl 10 yards up and back a
total of 20 yards and repeat for 10 rounds.

Total jump rope 1,000 times and 200 yards of Bear Crawls
in under 10 minutes. Try it, if you think it’s an easy
workout. But is a very basic result producing workout.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

The Greatest thing about Pushups

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The greatest thing about pushups is the versatility.

Pushups are still one of the greatest exercises and
always will be.

Just the fact that you can do hundreds of different
pushups working the body from almost every angle
known to man makes the pushup a great tool for
complete physical fitness.

If you used pushups and sprints or jumping rope and never
did anything else you would become a freak of nature.

If you used this philosophy for a couple of months and
really did it almost every single day your body would
transform into a lean, athletic machine.

I can almost promise that because the way the body
will be worked by these two or three exercises any
thing else you try will become easier.

A workout of many different pushups and explosive
training like sprints, hill sprints or jumping
rope is all you would ever need to be high above
anyone else.

Try the experiment yourself and tell me your results.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

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Bodyweight Training – Tough Workout

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Try this workout but only if you are physically fit

Wearing a 40lb weight vest jump rope 500 times non stop no rest
move right on to plyo pushups to a object at least 8″ wearing
5lb wrist weights. Simple with the weights on your wrist you explode
on to the platform drop back down for 20 reps.

I finished off with a secret exercise never seen before anywhere!
Talk about an F’n beast.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

Bodyweight Training – Killer Functional Exercise

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Build total body functional strength with the wall walk. It’s not as easy as you might
think. It takes a whole body effort to stay straight and to just complete just a short
distance. Try it but don’t let it fool you.

Just before the video the workout I did was jump rope 250 times wall walk half the wall
jump rope 250 times walk the other half. Then jumped rope 250 times walk back half
way. Jump rope 250 times and finish the last half. Non stop.

Then finished off with Wildman Bodybuilders for 50 yards with no rest. This was
a real good functional strength and conditioning workout.

Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com

Bodyweight Training – Beach Sprinting

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Today I worked out in Ocean City NJ on the beach in the soft sand. I thought that
working in the sand would be a struggle because I don’t workout in this environment.
I live in higher elevation and train in the mountains.

I like to try different training situations and see how the training in the mountains
compare to other areas I train in. The sand had nothing for me, I ran rough shot over
it.

Started with 10 minutes of 50 yard soft sand sprints(not the sand packed by the ocean)
started on all fours exploded in to sprint walked back repeated for 10 minutes. Then
with no rest in between dropped down to a prisoner squat thrust then in to a sprint
50 yard sprint.Walk back repeated for 15 more sprints.

The last 10 sand sprints were 50 yard soft sand suicides with  prisoner squat thrusts
on either end non stop

As the workout was ending I pushing harder – digging deeper. Total time 24 minutes.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

The Genetic Theory

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What do I mean about the genetic theory? I here from time to time about
how genetics play a big role in peoples lives. And they do, but I think a lot
of people use it as an excuse to be fat or to be weak.

There is genetic freaks out there, but the potential still needs to be worked
and worked hard. Some are stronger than others and that’s the way it is but
the fact remains we all have more potential than anyone thinks.

An example would be a mom lifting a car off her son, not a genetic freak just
a mother reacting to saving her sons life. I say it a lot, the mind holds all the
cards.

Years ago in the weight room in our teens we had a guy who could bench 280lbs
for 6 reps  but when 300 lbs was added he failed. On the next training
session we told him we put 280lbs on the bar but we put on 300lbs he got the rep
dropped the bar and said the bar felt a little heavier; than we told him it was because
it was 300lbs and not 280 lbs

This was routine  and no one knew when it would happen. Genetics do play a part and
for some a big part but it comes down to how will think and what we grew up believing.

My advice is to never compare yourself to someone else, just work hard and I promise
as long as you keep working most will not and if anything it will be the sear work that
gets you to the position you want to be.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

The Strongest Man I Ever Knew

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It’ no secret I spent my whole life lifting weights from the time I was 12 to about
30 years old. The first time I ever lifted any weights I put 110lbs over my head
and I weighed 98 lbs.

I was always obsessed  with gaining weight and getting stronger. All the years
I studied and read about real strong men never really seeing to many real strong
men, not even in the gym.  I did spot a man who did squat 800lbs and another
guy I would spot would do behind the neck press with 315 lb for 10 reps. Later
found he was on the juice, years later he was rail thin.

For my size I never knew really anyone stronger than I was at 145Lbs. I was deadlifting
400lbs as a 9th grader and as a senior in high school I was bench pressing 330lbs.

And after all these years  – all the years spent in and out of the gym and working
in the blue collar trade the strongest man I ever knew and who never lifted any
traditional weights was my “old man” My dad quit school in 8th grade and
went to work and all I ever knew him to do was drive truck and move furniture.

He was about 5’6″ weighed probably about 19o lbs and was thick, his legs, calves,
his chest, his hands and fingers were very thick he wore a size 8 EEE shoe, his feet
were as wide as they were long.

As a kid I never ever seen him fail at picking up anything he put his hands on. I watched
him strap refrigerators to his back and walk flight after flight of steps all by himself, you talk
about a step up workout! I seen him carry a baby grand piano with two other men, him on one
side two on the other. I watched him in Virgina run 3 men in the ground working in over 100
degree weather while ( I was probably 10 or 11)  and 3 other men need to sit in the shade.

I watched him pick up a 300 lb weight set and put it over his head as well as doing
pullovers from the floor with 200lbs when he was drunk and he didn’t know any better.

If he grabbed you, you would not get away. I watched him beat on my moms boyfriend and
almost kill him, not to mention the holes in the wall he made missing this dudes head.

The “old man” was never sick that I can remember or ever hurt. He drank all the time and
smoked probably a pack of cigarettes a day and never missed work. This is not some
ploy to talk about how great my dad was, because he wasn’t. He chose the booze and
I didn’t see him all my teenage life or even talk to him.

But here’s what happened to him emphysema, heart problems, weight gain, on oxygen
24/7 can’t even walk 25 yards without resting. He lived the dirty lifestyle and he paid
and is still paying. At 72 he keeps going and I don’t know how!

But it’s funny because no gym strong man could have even done half the things he did
day in and day out, it would have ran them in to the ground. Just growing up blue collar
and living this life gives you a toughness and strength weights could never give you.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

 

A Fat Man walks in…..

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I pulled in to a parking lot and watched an employee who’s belly
was hanging down to his thighs. He got in his car and left. I went
in the store and while I was in the check out line he walked back
in.

I guess he was on lunch, when he walked in he was carrying a bag
of Mc Donalds food and a big ass iced coffee drink. Young guy,
belly hanging down to his thighs and eating Mc Donalds.

How can men and women continue to do this to themselves?
Why do these people continue to destroy their lives?

Just like alcoholics, drug addicts and gamblers these people
have an addiction that they feel is okay. Booze, drugs and
gambling may ruin your life quicker but in the end food
will cost you more with food bills, sickness, disease and
higher medical costs.

Should we mine our own business?

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

Bodyweight Training is NOT for the weak!

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Bodyweight training is not for the weak, using your bodyweight is
a serious workout, and most men can not handle their own
bodyweight.

Weights are used because they are easier to use than your bodyweight.
Most men think by walking on treadmill and doing some curls and
dumbell fly’s they are building a great body.

There is a reason why gym membership is up and down and it’s because
the lack or results. Athletes are becoming more aware of the benefits
of bodyweight training and are using it more now than ever because
of the quick results they get.

On occasion I try and show some young muscled up stud that they are
really that strong by a few simple bodyweight exercises and when they
fail to move or collapse like a house of cards they start to think all this
training and a simple bodyweight exercise got the best of me.

Most use the pushup as a warm up or a cool down and still can’t get it
in their head that ” The Pushups” is a serious training exercise. A
minute or two of pushups will cripple the normal trainer and as
far as a conditioning exercise like the burpee, forget about.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

 

 

A Navy Seal breathing Heavy & Runners are Weak

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Why do I continue to tell people that my blogs and newsletter is not
for the normal man or women and still people don’t get the idea.

I talk about the things other people won’t talk about, I talk about
real life situations that I see everyday and from the over 30 years
of being around the physical labor trade and  gyms.

I don’t talk much about white collar, that speaks for itself. No matter
what I say someone who has very little if any experience voice their
opinion. I had a person tell me how LSD (long slow distance) running
amazingly changed their body. And it will for a short time, but they
will never really achieve true physically fitness.

Runners are thin and weak, plain and simple.

Very few runners are physical most look like rail thin boys with
very little muscle. Here is a clue, if distance running is everyone’s
first thought on achieving fitness do something else.

Why do we look to the military as the standard in physical fitness?

Most go in out of shape – spend a few weeks getting in shape and this
gives them expert status. 100 pushups in 2 minutes is actually pretty
weak as well as 100 situps in 2 minutes.

Most get out of the military and never train again. A funny thing I have
been asked by former military is how can they can get back in shape after
they tell me that the best shape they were ever in was when they were in
bootcamp and I asked what did you do in bootcamp? They tell me and then
I tell them there is your answer.

Any group I mention someone always gets upset whether military, police,
martial artists, prisoners someone seems to get pissed because they or someone
they know did this or that the majority of men in these vocations do it because
they have to they don’t do it unless they have to when they are done or get older
no more training even the martial artists are pathetic.

What I’m saying is the majority are not in great shape not every military man
or prisoner or martial artists is some physical fitness freak; most couldn’t pass
my physical fitness test or for that matter a simple schools physical fitness
test.

Check the young recruit out of the military in less than a year or the prisoner
that makes parole fat and weak in no time. Hell I watched a former navy seal
demonstrate an exercise of about 10 reps and was breathing heavy when he
was done.

To be physically fit you need to work hard at doing what the majority are not.
You need to work the body in all areas, from different angles and push. To be
normal just go through the motions.

For the runners, try adding some pushups or pullups to your boring
running routine!

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

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