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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
The only way to build true physical fitness is to train your body
to be physically fit. It seems like a no brainier, but most people
want the most complicated training regime they can find.
Most think by using 40 different exercises in a workout will
build the ultimate body and build over the moon conditioning.
Try keeping track of more than 5 different exercises as you get
farther in your workout. I want to focus on training not tracking
what exercise is next.
I very rarely do more than 5 exercises at any one workout because
to me it waste valuable training time. Jumping rope, burpees, pushups
pullups and situps ( an example ) do you really need any more?
Physical fitness is built on a consistent basis not something you do when you
feel like it. Training when you don’t feel like it or just because you got done
work late.
Make training a priority. It will give you better results than reading the
newspaper or watching t.v. We should all try to live at a higher standard
by doing all we can to remain physically and mentally healthy.
Outdoor training can really improve a workout. Training natural in a
natural environment will do wonders for your attitude.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
” Winners Train Everyday” I like this saying. But what does it actually mean? Does it mean you have to
go hard everyday? Does it mean that if you don’t train everyday you will be a loser? My take on this saying
is when you let up you get passed.
I do train everyday, and have for years. I believe training everyday has allowed me to stay very fit and
injury free from conditioned muscle, meaning over the years my muscles have adapted to the many years
of stress placed on them.
I do NOT train all out every single day, but I do something. Training everyday gives you the feeling of
knowing and the habit that everyday you can workout. Think about it. Anything you want to build
in life whether a successful business, a weight loss program what ever, seems to bring better results
from momentum.
Almost everyday I walk. I like to walk and it gets me both ready for the day or gives a little relaxation at
night either way it’s exercise. Sometimes I’ll just drop down for some pushups or do squats or situp crunches
it takes up almost no time.
Do you think that if you did something every single day things would improve? If you continued to try
to get better by creating better habits do you think your physical and mental life might improve?
Remember it’s okay to exercise and move everyday. You do not need to take the day off, something as
simple as a walk will give you a feeling of accomplishment.
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
A Rarely used Strength Secret
Most trainers and strength coaches all over the world use a few
strength building exercises, the squat, the dead lift, the power clean
for over all body power. These are great strength builders, but how
effective are they really? And do they promise all the hype of real
strength building?
I will tell you there is a better way of building overall body strength that
will transfer to all athletic sports and everyday life. It’s an exercise that
our bodies are made for. You don’t need a lot of weight for a total over
all body workout.
If you look and think how the body has been used for centuries you will see
that some things modern day trainers look at as full body workouts are
damaging to the body.
The squat is considered the “King of exercises” but how often do you really
need to put 300lbs on or shoulder in real life and stand up? The fact is that
if you ever did need to stand up with 300lbs the chances are you would fail.
Why? Because, in the real world 300 lbs that you are lifting would never be
balanced, it would be awkward and most men that could squat 300lbs would
have a tough time standing up with 200 lbs on their shoulders.
Squatting is big in football, for instance a lineman is usually coming out
of a squat no one else. There is more pushing than anything else. The
pushing will require overall body strength and a big part is the core and
not one of the 3 exercises I mentioned will strengthen the core to a point
of real function.
Same goes with the dead lift, deadlift 400lbs now grab a 250lb rock and lift
it up. The rock is a lot lighter but there is no nice bar to grab your body needs
to call on muscle memory to lift something compact, awkward with a whole
different body dynamic.
The power clean is another story, most people don’t do it right. Most people
are doing it like an explosive reverse curl. Olympic style weight lifters do this
correctly most others do not.
The body does not know whether you are lifting sandbags, logs, weights, digging
ditches or moving furniture it’s all weight.
But the one thing you can do to build a functional strong body from head to
toe is the simple method of shouldering and carrying an unbalanced object
for time or distance up hill and downhill. I say it will build strength from head
to toe because carrying will strengthen the entire body and the core muscles that
are required in all sports and in everything else that will need total body strength
and the head meaning it takes mental toughness to carry a weight for time or
a predetermined distance.
The great thing is a weight as little as 40 or 50lbs will enough for most men
try carrying a 50lb sand bag, rock, log for a ¼ mile or more switching the object
from shoulder to shoulder. I like to use a 70 or 100lb heavy bag for walking hills
and climbing steps and walking wooded trails. And if you want to build heavily
muscled traps and shoulders try shouldering and carrying and let me know how
them shoulders and traps feel.
Shouldering and carrying an awkward object should be a big part of any strength
training program. Balanced objects fool you into thinking you are stronger than
you actually are. Just like bodyweight exercises that require more muscles to do
pushups than it does to do bench presses.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
P.S. Yesterday did 845 dips in 30 minutes. I’m a little sore today. So try some
shouldering and go for your record number of dips!
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Why locking out and using a full range of motion can be crippling!
Remember you read it here first. Locking out and a full range of motion
could be the reason for most injuries over time. First question, when you
walk do you lock out at the knee with every movement? Second question,
do you walk using a full range of motion?
When you stand do you stand knees locked? When you walk are your
elbows locked or do they have a slight bend?
I have been training for over 30 years and have had my share of soreness,
and injuries. My injuries always came from the traditional way of exercise,
doing what everyone else did. Take heavy squats for example. Squat down
stand back up and lock the knee until you are ready to do the next one.
This pressure on the knee will cause knee problems in the long road. Take
two exercises I love, dips and pushups. For some reason everyone thinks
that if you are not going below parallel you are doing the exercise incorrectly.
Doing dips and going below parallel becomes a shoulder ripper, meaning
the lower you go the more you stretch the better chance of a torn muscle
and a great chance of strains that will keep you from training.
I got away from all that crazy “What everyone else does philosophy” and
started doing what is right for my body and for long term physical fitness
and health. And when I started training more explosive or with more speed
and not locking completely out or going beyond parallel my body healed
got stronger and my muscles got harder.
A benefit from coming just short of locking out is the muscles stay under
tension longer the longer the muscle can stay under tension the stronger
it will get. Muscle kept under tension will strengthen quicker and build
a body not as likely to be injured.
Try not going below parallel try not locking out and keep the muscle
under tension longer and feel the difference in your joints and the
rest of the body.
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.
I can’t help but wonder why people are so against skipping a meal? It won’t
kill you. It gives your body a rest and time to repair. The funny thing is that
with all research and all the gurus and the diet industries and all the
prepackaged food and new weight loss surgeries we are fatter than ever.
The new standard is to eat 5 to 6 small meals a day to lose weight, or the
percentage diets you know 40% of protein and 30% of carbs and 30% of
fat or whatever percentage diet people want use.
The problem is people are not that interested in making 5 to 6 small meals
or spending the weekend making bulk food for the week they are NOT
going to take percentage of their foods.
And any experts and diet book authors that think people live this way are
fools. There was a time when people ate 3 meals a day, do you remember
that? Breakfast, lunch and dinner and maybe a snack was how most
people ate.
Growing up if you were in grade school you ate breakfast before school,
you ate lunch in school; than you came home changed and went right
back out the door to play. Ride bike or play sports, came home had dinner
and back out the door again. If you were in high school the same thing, out
the door or you had after school activities.
There were some fat kids and they were the kids that for the most part were
the least active. And for the ex fat kid that wants to tell me how active they
were and that they didn’t eat that much you are lying, plain and simple.
Another question fast food has been around a long time and only in the last
20 years it’s gotten a bad rap. Has fast food changed? Or is it because we
live on it every day? When I was a kid McDonalds was a treat, a once in a
while treat
T.V. dinners came in metal trays and had to be put in the oven and this
was a treat, today everything is a t.v. dinner.
So why is skipping a meal bad? We focus on food all the time. We sit on
our asses all day. How can an expert tell anybody how many calories
he or she should eat, everyone is living a different lifestyle of activity.
Common sense say’s if you sit on your ass all day you better eat less
at least of processed foods.
I have a thought and it may or may not work. Eat when you’re hungry!
Stop making food your main concern! Stop thinking you will waste away
if you miss a meal you won’t. Oh, yeah and not eating all day and thinking
it’s okay to eat a half gallon of ice cream because you didn’t eat that
kind of thinking will get you far.
A lot of you probably don’t know but I’m a regular guy
with a family and a job, and because I started a family
at such a young age of 17; I went the path of a steady
job with benefits etc. My job is not writing books
or training people.
My whole life I’ve been into physical fitness and
strength and was stronger and fitter than just about
anyone else.
For over 30 years I have studied, researched and read
all I could get my hands on, I have trained with all
training systems and still study and train harder
than ever.
So why am I telling you this? Because, Although I follow
the masses of having a job I don’t follow the masses in
almost nothing else.
My thought is, if most people are doing it and unless the
results are the ones I want I look somewhere else for
the answer.
Now that brings me to my training session today. I was
at a truck stop and while everyone was smoking and
ordering greasy food I was pacing looking for a place
to work out. I won’t follow the masses of the big belly
truck drivers.
My workout was 500 decline pushups feet on a picnic table
in sets of 100 did some short sprints and was finished,
not bad for a truck stop workout.
Just another situation with a little time and I found time
to get in a pretty awesome workout, in a place not known to
be the fittest or healthiest place around. An F’N Truck Stop!
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com