Training is a priority!

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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

Bodyweight Training – “Winners Train Everyday”

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” 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?

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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.

www.wildmantraining.com

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

A Rarely used Strength Secret

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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

www.wildmantraining.com

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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Bodyweight Training – 50 Suspension dips on chains

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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

“Conditioned Strength”

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“Conditioned Strength”

Years ago I didn’t know the different kinds of strength I only knew
that strength and physical fitness always interested me and I was
drawn right to it. The only strength athlete was my dad a truck driver
over the road furniture mover short and thick, could lift almost
anything he got his hands on and could go for hours despite
smoking 2 packs of non filter cigarettes a day.

It wasn’t until years later that I realized there were different types
of strength, strength that can move a heavy object one time and
the strength to move a heavy object many times.
I went for the one rep max strength and over the years done more
damage to my body not to mention gaining weight and losing a lot
of athletic ability because of the weight gain and focusing on one rep
strength.

When I started to realize the benefits of “Conditioned Strength”
Strength that can I will last when you are tired and can still continue
to keep going and even become stronger at the end, to me that is
the real benefit. Strength in the beginning of a task that can’t
last is of no use to me.

When you are breathing heavy and your muscles decide they can
no longer go and you need to stop you have left yourself in a bad
situation a situation of quitting.  For instance you will benefit more from
being able to do 100 pushups than being able to bench press 300lbs
one time. If you able to do 100 pushups I can guarantee you
are physically fit yet a person that can bench 400lb one time
is probably and almost always is not fit.

These men almost always focus on the strength and not the
“Conditioned Strength” of exercise and I can almost always promise
these guys couldn’t run a few short sprints. But to be able to do 100
pushups requires a full body effort including the anaerobic system the
400lb bench presser is using usually low reps usually 5 reps or less with
a lot of rest in between sets.

A lot of men don’t understand this type of Conditioned Strength  unless they
are using their bodies on a regular basis to lift, pull, drag, carry at a high volume
sitting in an office it really doesn’t matter but a laborer has and needs the strength
to continue all day to get the job done.

Our country wasn’t built on men that were one rep men these men were
strong all day long think about the cave man walking carrying sprinting
wrestling “Conditioned Strength” one rep strength would be useless

I try to educate people on the benefits of bodyweight training and
natural body movements for functional fitness I believe you can and
will do better with less equipment and more creativity than complicated
training programs created by experts that have never really trained. I
loved having the meat head gym ego I loved strength and still do except
now I love “Conditioned Strength” because it has changed my life for the
better. I loved having 18 ½ “arms and a 21” neck at 5’7 and 240lbs I
looked huge and intimidating. That is what most men think, get big and
scare other men. But I can tell you this, just looking like you are athletic
lean and carrying yourself with confidence will give the same confidence
except instead of looking you are being.

I do not think there is anyone who can teach the benefits of functional
fitness better than me considering my whole life has been earning my
living with functional strength and if you include the 30 plus years of
training my body has probably triple the work and stress put on it if
not more than the most experienced fitness expert.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

I can whip your ass in to shape in a 4×8 space

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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

 

Skipping a meal won’t kill you fat ass!

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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.

Bodyweight Training – My Workout Draws Attention From Local Police

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My Workout Draws Attention From Local Police

I want to tell you about a training session I had in a strange place that
drew the attention of the local police. Last week my company vehicle
broke down under an overpass, so while I was waiting for road service
I figured I’d get in a workout.

The great thing about bodyweight training, when you want a great
workout and there is no equipment other than the environment you’re
in and you use your creative mind that’s when great things happen.

So I did underpass hill sprints from the sidewalk to the top of the bridge,
but here’s how the workout went down. On the side walk I did 1 prisoner
squat thrust from the ground I exploded up the concrete slope than
walked back down, when I got to the bottom I went again – no resting
only on the walk down. I repeated this 35 times. But I wasn’t done.

I walked to the top of the concrete slope and Bear Crawled down head
first got to the bottom and went back up the slope backwards and when
I got to the top and did it again.

I did this all while people are driving by looking at the nut wearing jeans,
sleeveless shirt, bandana and work boots. This is not something you see
every day in a not so good area.

At this point the police drove by and stopped I walked up to them
leaned over, sweat dripping off my head and nose. They said to
me that they have seen this place used for a lot of things but
never for a workout. They looked at me again strange than
drove away.

I did this all while people are driving by looking at the nut wearing
jeans, sleeveless shirt, bandana and work boots. This is not something
you see every day.

When the cops drove away I walked over to a tree and did a few sets of
thick tree branch commando style pull-ups and finished the workout.

Great workout and my gym was my environment.

Toughness Builds Winners

Johnny Grube

www.wildmantraining.com

P.S. Here is an email that was sent to me:

Hello Johnny, I just wanted to thank you again for your advice. I have
used your challenging workouts for many weeks now and lost 38 pounds
of Fat! Dropping down from 240 pounds to 202! I have maintained this for
2 weeks now so I am very pleased. I am not looking to drop any more.
The keys for me have been a lot of 20 yard bear crawls mixed with jumping
rope, dive bomber and popper push ups, pull ups, mountain climbers and
dips. Johnny, thank you again for helping me shift to a healthier paradigm!
Sincerely, Nick Couzens

Skip Your Next Meal, It Won’t Kill You!

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Skip Your Next Meal, It Won’t Kill You!

We are constantly hearing from experts and doctors don’t skip
meals if you want to lose weight. I disagree. The experts want
you to eat five or six times small meals a day for weight loss.
The concept is that by eat five or six small meals a day will
keep you from being hungry and will keep your metabolism
high.

What the experts don’t tell you is that it is in our DNA as humans
to be able to skip meals and be fine. As a matter of fact the only
real way to prolong life is through calorie restriction. The experts
and big companies want you to eat five or six small meals a day
and now they sell these small portion meals to you to make you
feel like you are doing something good for yourself.

Did you ever notice most of these small meals are almost always
pasta type meals? They charge you a lot of money for something
you could make for a few cents.

Have you ever noticed the people that eat these small meals of
pasta really don’t ever seem to lose much weight, and why do they
not lose weight? It’s because these pasta meals do not promote
weight loss they raise the blood sugar and produces insulin and
stores body fat.

Look at the way they fatten hogs and cows, they feed them grains.
Animals that are fed a natural grazing diet don’t get as big and
they don’t produce enough bulk or milk fast enough so they feed
them an unnatural diet so they get fat faster, and that’s the way most
people in this country eat. If most people were to eat more natural
foods they would eat less calories and be full longer and be feeding
the body nutrition that it needs.

Fast food is high in calories and fat but eating two cheese burgers
at one sitting is no sweat for almost any kid and you probably will
have eaten over 1,000 calories in one sitting, but if you boiled some
chicken and put it over some spinach with a little dressing you have
a healthy lunch or dinner and saved yourself probably 600 calories.

And that would equal at least one pound lost every week! If you
can’t skip a meal do your best to eat one meal that is nutritious
during the day and build on that.

 

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