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Early morning workout can and will energize you for the day not to mention
once it’s done it’s done unless you want to do one in the evening.
My early morning pick me up took all of 4:00 minutes.
25 Wildman Plyo Jumpers
50 bench dips
4 rounds non stop total 100 WPJ 200 bench dips not bad for 4:00 minutes
try it
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
Want to train like a real animal?
I hear time in and time out about how someone
isn’t going all the way down or he’s not locking out.
Okay, why does it matter if he’s not locking out or
using a full range of motion?
Who made up the rules? If I don’t want to go slow
and lockout every pushup and wreck my elbows I’ll
rename my pushups to “Speed Pushups” or “Speed
Dips” etc.
Meaning I go as fast and explosive as I can, training
my body to be more explosive and build faster reaction
time.
Everyone has their own opinions and will follow
whatever they think will work best for them. I said it
before train slow you become slow if you train fast
and explosive you get fast and explosive.
If you look at the way the body moves on a natural
everyday basis the way you walk, run, jump, climb,
bend, twist, reach etc the body is always in flow,
full range of motion or locking out is never thought
about until we train with conventional methods.
In a life saving situation would you worry about a full
range of motion? If you had to pull yourself up a tree
would you worry about the stretch or do you get your
ass up in the tree?
If you had to carry or lift an object are you going to make
sure your back is flat and you lift with the legs? You explode
with the whole body to do what needs to be done.
After all the years of training and listen and reading all I can
I find is that the faster and more explosive I train the less
injured I get. Training the conventional ways with weights
and locking out abused my elbows, knees, shoulders and
neck.
Animals never use a full range of motion or lock out.
Animals are explosive, strong and react to the situation.
In nature there is no full range of motion or locking out
at the joints. Locking out and full range of motion is made
up by old school weight trainers and that is not a natural
state of the body.
Children never use a locking out or full range of motion
and never seem to get bad backs or sore elbows or knees.
I have four kids and they never used the conventional way,
they play. Kids run, jump tumble and have fun oh yeah
kids never jog they sprint, they always run short and as
fast as they can.
Kids weren’t taught this method of running it’s just natural.
Most adults train like adults and the older they get the slow
they train. Why not just keep on keeping on and see where
it brings you.
I still the “Pro’s” talking about wearing out, my opinion is
keep locking out and using full range of motion your body
will start to wear out.
Other hard labor countries that still earn a living farming,
carrying water whatever eat little and stay active well past
their 60’s and don’t seem to be worn out it’s just the
conventional hear say that seems to wear people out.
Really look at the way we really move or any animal and
you should get the answer.
Here’s a great workout you can try that will have you
sweating in no time.
All you need is a place for pull-ups, outside is best.
You will do 10 Wildman Prisoner squat thrusts when you
stand up you will explode jumping forward coming down
with legs bent and dropping back down for the next one
until you complete 10 than you will walk over and do 3
pull-ups and walk back and repeat. You will repeat this
for at least 10 rounds.
This will fry the entire body your legs will hate you!
Try to get as close as you can to the pullup bar or tree
branch on the 10th jump.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
I’m a big believer in using what you have to build a strong and productive
body in all environments. I also think that we need creativity to stay
motivated to continue to make gains and to keep the mind fresh.
In the video I’m doing some dips using chains from a piece of equipment
in a park. I rarely do dips on anything other than a dip rack, but these
were tough. Because the chains move my body is forced to work more
muscles to stay up without falling.
If we want to continue to grow physically and mentally we need to change
the things we do day in and day out. We need to be creative. We need
to step out of the box and do unconventional things.
Nobody wants to be just a regular guy. We want to be the best we can be
and we can never be the best we want to be if we are like everyone else.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
I can whip your ass in to shape in a 4×8 space
It’s been a while since I have sent out a newsletter so
I figured I better get one out. Sometimes our life changes
and things change but for me training is and always be
important.
Since I have been 12 years old I have trained but it wasn’t
until my early 30’s that I change my focus from power lifting
to bodyweight training. Bodyweight training to me is functional
fitness it’s physical fitness it’s real life fitness.
I am always experimenting with workouts, reps, times, and
have learned that the simpler you make your training the better
and faster the results. I also know that the simpler and more
intense your workout you will get even better results like lean
muscle, burned fat and you will build an athletic body.
Like I said, short intense workouts will whip your ass in record time.
The best part of this is the effectiveness’ and time saved. Shorter
workouts give you more time to recover shorter workouts allow you
to do them anywhere you are, and your body will respond with
results never gotten from another training philosophy.
I have been experimenting with training in a small 4×8 area and have
gotten great results in as little as 7 to 10 minutes. Sometimes I work
16 hour days and still maintain a high level of fitness just from these
short intense workouts.
Try these for a few weeks and tell me what you have accomplished.
My workout: jump rope 500 times – 100 pushups – 50 burpees – 100
tricep bench dips this workout is nonstop and you should only rest
if you need to. Suck it up and do the best you can. You can do this every
day and you will get better almost every day. Always keep times of your
workouts. My best time is 5:01 so you know I’m moving as fast and
explosive.
Another great workout is: jump rope 100 times and do 10 Prisoner Squat
Thrusts for 5 to 10 rounds trying to do each round in 1 minute this is very
tough.
I beefed up the top workout today: jumped rope 500 times – 150 pushups
75 burpees and 150 tricep bench dips in 7:33 try these keep your best time
and always work on bettering your time.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com
Finding time to train is never a problem for me. Ever
since I switched to mostly body weight training finding
time and staying creative has never been a problem.
I always carry a jump rope because it’s such a great
athletic building tool.
Yesterdays workouts were done in 3 different places.
The first was outside my house. I jumped rope 500 times
and did 200 pushups outside my house.
At about 7:30am I was in a state park over looking a
stream and did 500 bodyweight squats in 8:00 minutes.
The third workout was in a park. I walked to the basketball
court and did my final workout. Jump rope 100 times and
did 10 yards of Wildman Bodybuilders and repeated this
5 times it took me all of 5:55 to complete the final workout
of the day. I finished off with 200 consecutive bench dips.
I got a lot done in a short period of time. My only
equipment, a jump rope and a bench in a park. Not bad
for someone that works 12 hour shifts.
We are only limited by our creativity and willingness
to do what we know what we should do.
Toughness builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com
P.S. The “Wildman Training program” will get you where you
want to be.
Blue Collar DNA
Is it possible to have blue collar DNA? We all know we can’t change our
DNA, but what about the way you are brought up. Our country was built
on blue collar DNA meaning nothing was easy it was a fight every single
day.
Some people are just brought up to be blue collar and some are brought
up to be white collar but the funny thing is, is that our bodies are made to be
blue collar. Our bodies are not made to sit around for 12 hours a day or more.
This is the main reason white collar men start to lose muscle and levels
of testosterone.
The white collar person’s body will waste away. The blue collar person’s body
will wear out. Both are right and wrong at the same time. If a white collar worker
is active and eats well he will maintain muscle and a level of fitness. If the blue
collar worker eats well and is active he can save his body from wear.
Most blue collar men who work all day like to eat badly and very rarely exercise
at all because they are doing it all day long and want rest. The white collar worker
also eats pretty bad and won’t exercise because of lack of energy from doing
very little physically and white collar workers are usually mentally fatigued.
I personally don’t know any blue collar workers that train like me or that have
trained as long as I have it’s been over 30 years. So my question is should my
body be worn out after 30 years of training and about the same as working labor
for 30 years?
I do know that the longer you train and use your body to make a living you build
a physical and mental toughness that can only be built over many years. Also
you will build a strength that is real hard to duplicate.
Old time strong men were mostly laborers and also spent a lot of time doing
bodyweight training and throwing around the weights some trained heavy some
trained with light weights but most of their roots were blue collar and I can’t think
of white collar strong men of the past.
These men built a strength that could only be built through years of physical hard
in and out of the gym.
So my question do you think that you are either born with a blue collar DNA or
a White collar DNA?
Toughness Builds Winners
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
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
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
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