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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
” 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
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”
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
Here is a great functional workout that will build a different type of
strength a strength that will have you ready to be strong and
explosive.
The workout is a 14 minute non stop knock down drag out ass
kicker.
Punch and kick the heavy bag for 1 minute. Drop down for
1 minute of Prisoner Squat Thrusts, try for around 20 a minute.
Repeat this non stop for 5 rounds. Now for the 4 minutes you
will do Wildman Heavy bag shoulder cleans (these will build a
great body awareness and build great strength when you need it)
I use a 100lb bag and for one 1 minute you clean it to the shoulder
for one minute as many times as you can and drop it down and repeat
after 1 minute switch to the other side do not stop continue switching
sides for 4 minutes.
Drop down while breathing heavy throw a 25lb plate on your chest and
do 100 situp crunches legs should be crossed and in the air to keep tension
to the lower abs.
Then I finished off with a few superman roll outs with the ab wheel from a
standing position.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
www.wildmantraining.com
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.
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
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
Today while working coming through a construction site I was forced to pull over and
wait for traffic to move. I took the time and got in a short workout of Jump Squats and
Hindu pushups it was hot but I got in a short fast workout that got the blood pumping
and a good sweat.
It never takes any equipment or any special place to get in a great workout. I get a
workout in anywhere I can. I’ve gotten workouts done in hospitals, hotels, truck trailers,
parks, parking lots waiting for my family, walls, picnic tables and on the side of the road
and love every minute of it.
There is no excuses and no need for any equipment or special apparatuses to do pull
ups just use what you have in the environment and build a natural strength that you can
always count on.
Toughness Builds Winners
Johnny Grube
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