Most personal trainers can take an online course or a weekend class and
become a personal trainer. I get my info from doers not talkers, I just talked
to an old buddy of mine today it’s been well over 5 years and we talked about some of the
old day’s when he would destroy all men in arm wrestling competition I met Tom
he was in his late 40′s 6’0 tall  about 185lbs thin build.

One of the things we did on the loading dock was have feats of strength, like who could
shoulder 300lb bales of cloth or how many times we could press a 220lb piece of thick
pipe and arm wrestling. Tom worked as a truck driver for another company and would
deliver freight to our company and one day he decided he would arm wrestle our dock
champ and was amazed at how he slammed the dock champ. There was a time when he
took on 5 guys one right after another and slammed them all as easy as the first.

Tom never lifted weights he worked hard and used his body everyday and never seemed
to over train. We mentally tire before we physically tire, we listen to the so called experts
for the answers instead of listening to the only thing that matters our own bodies.

So don’t tell me your jogging, bench pressing and handstand pushups or what ever workout
is burning you out, if anything most need more activity. I work labor everyday workout sometime
both in the morning and evening sometimes at work and walk every night and you know what I don’t
feel over trained.

This is what I have experienced in over 30 years of training and being a laborer and being around
laborers all my life, take it for what it’s worth. If you don’t agree I don’t care! The body is made to
work and move,  more people are at rest more than they are active.

Start listening to your body and stop letting others decide your limits and create your own philosophy.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

All the years I have been training and it’s over 30 years my injuries always come
from doing something stupid. It wasn’t from over training. The body can be pushed
farther than people think, as a matter of fact people stop way short of what they are
capable of. Their mind gives in way before their body does.

So if I have a job and I have to physically pick up 3,000 45lb boxes in an 8 hour shift
totaling 135,000 pounds and do it 5 days a week for 5 months, by gym standards I would
be over training. If I swing a 45lb kettle bell 500 times a day in any session 5 days a week for
5 months how many would figure this to be over training?

Heavy weight and low reps training, there is more rest time then training time, how could
you be over trained?

I can imagine working the body physically at work in a manual labor job and calling out
because of over training or being tired, you would not be working very long.

It’s easy for people to talk about this who sit behind a desk all day every day. The gym
community is the only one’s that over train. People that do manual labor just get tired.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com

I guess I look at training differently than the majority.
I look at training as something that can be taken out of
the gym and in to the real world.I want training that is going
to help me survive.

Today’s workout’s focus on training that requires a big
learning curve and to me requires too much time.

Progression training is what everyone seems to be looking for,
things like one leg pistols or one arm pushups. My thoughts
are if you are that inexperienced and can’t figure out the
mechanics of the one arm pushup without someone holding your
hand through the process, you probably can’t do the basic
bodyweight exercises.

I learned progression type training on my own. Years ago
in 8th grade someone asked to see how many one arm pushups
I could do and did 21 one arm pushups and never did any
progressive training,I just trained.

I want to work out, become fit and move on with my day. I
want to be physically fit not gymnastic fit. I want to train like
the elite military not like Bart Conner.

If it offends you, hey that’s just my thought and you can
do whatever you want. Over the years I found I don’t have hours
to spend in the park doing pull-ups or working on things that will
take away from actual training.

I’m really not interested any more doing one or two rep training,
it real never helped me in anything I needed to do, it never helped
me in sports or in work, so once in a while maybe. But for the most
I will stick with basic higher reps for my program.

If you can’t do at least 50 pushups you probably shouldn’t
even be working on one pushups and if you can’t do a least 25
pullups one arm pull-ups are out of the questions.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

Amazon “Ultimate Physical Fitness in 5 minutes” go try it
if you think you can!

Another thing is that most so called experts will tell you to lift weights to build muscle and strengthen
bone, isn’t your bodyweight weight? Do you really think that your body knows the difference of what’s
being used? Does it only respond to traditional weights? Kettle bells? Chains around your neck?
No it will respond to logs, rocks, bodyweight, sand filed pails a trash can full of trash! Your body
doesn’t know, you know.

I can care less anymore about lifting as heavy as possible, it never helped me in any way other than
to fill  my ego. I have a story as to why I changed. I actually train this way, most of the others selling
bodyweight training programs use them once in a while or once a week. Don’t believe me check out
their websites and how they really train. Bodyweight training is tough, it’s unforgiving but will give
fast results.

Try listening to someone that has used it every single day for 17 years  and not to the men that tell you
you have to do other things to get strong. Who has all day to train? I don’t.  For my money using
my bodyweight is how I’m going.

Bodyweight training is not gym training, bodyweight training is different and if you try and train
like gym training more rest time than work time, you will not get the benefit of an ass kicking workout.

I have story after story of police, martial artists, military etc of getting stronger quicker and faster
than ever before their bodies are rebuilding even have a story of a state policeman who figured out
that after years of bodyweight training he can now bend steel! So, yes it works.

Until the low rep trainers, kettle bellers, so called body builders can prove to me that I an a physically
weak man from 17 years of bodyweight training I might change my mind. if over the years of the videos
I have posted show I’m weak than I’m so far lost in a world of fairy tales I should start jogging and join a
gym and get in line to use the bench press.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

In the book the Seal talked about every Friday they had to do 100 non stop
8 – count body builders and he hated them so much that in the workout
section he left them out stating ” I left 8 – count bodybuilder out for obvious
reasons” He hated them. 100 8 – count body builders are tough, 100 in 10
minutes will even test the fittest.

Here’s a workout you can try and it will test you mentally and physically.

You need 100 yards, a heavy bag or sand bag ( about 50 to 80 lbs ) and a
toughness to finish:

Do 1 8 count – shoulder the bag walk it 100 yards – drop it do 2 – 8 counts
shoulder the bag on the other shoulder walk 100 yards do 3 – 8 counts and
see how many times you can walk up and down that field.

I finished with 22 times total 253 – 8 count body builders, shouldering the bag
23 times and walking 2,200 yards in 60 minutes.

As the workout gets longer you work harder doing more 8 – count bodybuilders
and it will test you in a big way.

Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

It’s up to you to motivate yourself either through coaching , reading books
or listening to audios that will put your mind in a place that can and will build
the mindset necessary for achievement.

Another thing I here is not everybody has to achieve. Really, is your life that
bad and meaningless that achievement is not on your list to improve your life?

Who doesn’t want to improve? The problem is everyone wants to improve it’s
just that most will not work at getting better and it’s usually is because most go
through life living like everyone else.

Being fat, drunk, stupid and weak  is no way to live on this earth! Everyday we should at
least try and improve in some little way. You can discipline yourself and improve.

Most people live life through their kids, and will discipline them,saying you’re to young
to drink now go get me a beer. Or you will get fat if you eat that while you eat a Big Mac.

To accomplish anything you have to be disciplined and go out and get it!

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

But I didn’t give up all old school training tools. I have some
that are over 25 years old. One that I still use but have
upgraded is the “Chest Expander”. Old time strong men, wrestlers,
boxers and laborers have used these for years to build strength
from all directions. They were also used in the old days in
competition call strand pulling.

I almost have one with me everywhere I go just in case I want
something different, they can also be used for amazing results
combined with bodyweight exercises.

I happen to be away from home for 4 days and still need to get
my workouts done whether they are light or heavy I will still
make time to train.

I want to share one of my hotel workouts:

1 minute of shadow sparing punching,kicking,elbows,knees etc.
1 minute of jump squats
1 minute of front chest pulls with the chest expander.

5 rounds moving from one exercise to another for 15 minutes.

Use a moderate weight using the chest expander because pulling
for 1 minute is a long time.

Finished with 3 minute of knee jumps and explosive forward
jumps ( get on your knees explode to your feet and do a
forward jump) repeat for 10 yards walk back repeat.

2 rounds of 10 yard explosive forward pushups( do a pushup
explode forward in the air and continue for 10 yards walk
back repeat with diamond pushups exploding forward for 10
yards. Total complete workout 20:00 minutes.

Tougher than you may think give it a try.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com

There is no time to rest you go through as many times as you can in 15 minutes.
Even if you can only do it 1 time you can build from there. Just get out and try it!

Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com

Building Nontraditional Strength

I believe in building real world strength. When
I train I can care less about having a six pack
when it comes to abs. I don’t use traditional ab
exercises, my everyday training see’s to that.

I train with total function in mind very rarely
do I do any ab exercise just to do them. Pretty
boys that like the plank is fine, I’m not trying to
build the “Prison Rape Body” pretty is not on my
list.

I seem to offend people when I go against what their
chosen experts say and how they tell them how to train.
But no one has to listen I said it before the things I teach
are tough and are not for the physically and mentally
weak.

I needed to fine a new way to train many years ago
because of body break down. When I left the traditional
training behind for the way I train now my body as a whole
has gotten extremely stronger, I can do things I have never
done before.

Plus I don’t want to spend all day doing long work outs
for results or getting to my target goals. Years ago I spent
tons of time in the gym and got strong but not
this type of strong.

For instance Feb 27^th was my 45^th birthday and I usually
do something for my birthday feat and my plan was to do
4,500 step ups in 2 ½ hours on a 10” bench and to be
honest, wasn’t sure if I could complete it in that time.

I got up at 2:30 am looked outside it was dark and cold,
and I started to make excuses like I have to work in a few
hours maybe I’ll do it Saturday on my day off so then I can
take it easy.

Then I thought everyone take’s it easy and I will
not take it easy, so I went out put on classical music
so I did not lose count and started stepping. At
1,500 I started thinking about quitting, then when I
got to 2,800 I was more than half way there and there
was no way I was going to quit and after 2 hours and
2 minutes of non stop stepping I finished 4,500 step ups
and I felt like a million bucks.

Then I got ready for work and a full day of manual labor.
Traditional training would have never allowed me to do that
considering I don’t do any long distance running or long
training sessions.

The next day thought I might rest, instead did 1,000 bench dips
in 19 minutes it’s not my best time but completed it in less than
20 minutes like I wanted.

A lot of people think that doing hundreds or thousands of reps
will wear the body out, well we walk thousands of steps every
week and our legs are not worn out as a matter of fact most people
don’t walk enough we raise and lower our arms thousands of times
and our arms aren’t worn out, do you ever not decide to walk or raise
your arms because you used them all day?

Some will even say that you can’t build strength with hundreds of
reps only endurance I want you to try this core demolishing pushup
that I did for the first time on this video and never tried it before. I like
to test my body both physically and mentally also I like to test my
strength and endurance just to see what can be done.

Remember the body wears out when you decide it wears out,
you and only you decide.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

As a matter of fact unless you are family or a great friend you
would probably do whatever you can to avoid helping.

Furniture moving is a very demanding type of exercise because
nothing you move is the same you use many different muscles
your body moves in so many directions. Hands are positioned
in different positions with each piece of furniture. Furniture is not
traditional weights. It’s not balanced or have a round bar to grip
it’s awkward, it’s moving forward and backwards and sideways,
it’s twisting and turning. It’s bending and squatting, it’s pushing
and pressing its holding and standing.

It’s no secret that I’m a laborer. I grew up around it my whole
life and have been doing it for over 30 years. Today, gyms and
training programs are tailoring their fitness programs around this
labor type training. Because it builds strength you cannot and
never could build in a gym.

You can get strong in the gym but you get gym strong. I was gym
strong and it will help but the strength you get from simple basic
exercises like carrying and shouldering moderate to light awkward
weights for time and distance will build a toughness that will build
the mind and body.

This past weekend I drove 4 hours to help my daughter move and
me and my 26 year old son-in-law unloaded and loaded the truck
he goes about 6’2 and 220lbs and I was running him ragged.

I never broke a sweat; I was running up and down the stairs back
and forth grabbing couches, mattress, dressers etc

He was breathing heavy and the sweat pouring off him. Of course
I was teasing him about him sucking air and sweating and he tells
me normal people sweat.

I tell this because you can bench press 400 lbs in the gym and
the awkward size of a decent size couch will put a hurting on
someone especially if you walk far enough and have to hold it
for long periods of time.

One hundred pounds is not one hundred pounds. Grab a
100lb barbell and press and it and it would probably be easy
grab full size dryer around 100 lbs and carry it from the basement
up the stairs to the truck all by yourself most likely it won’t happen.

I have carried full size dryers and have carried dressers up and down
the steps with no help on many occasions and if I didn’t train my
body for real life strength I would not be able to do these things.
So if you want to build a strong body, grab a hold of something a log
a rock, a sand bag or a heavy bag which I prefer because of the difficulty
handling it because of the size.

I also will do step-ups shouldering weight or holding weight in front
of me while doing step-ups and just simple training with awkward
objects on a regular basis will strengthen your entire body.

I no longer pick up anything with a bar if it’s conventional I will not
use it. Try training like this for a while and wait until you see the changes
in your conditioning and strength.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com