Old Time Strongman

I enjoy reading about and then performing oldtime "Physical Culture" feats of strength training. I work out with my buddy from OC Jail. We truck a large keg full of water, a 200 lbs. duffle bag full of sand bags, 80 lb. dumbells, and 100 lb. dumbells to a nearby park at 6:00 AM and perform the Bent Press, the Continental lift, the Snatch, the Clean, the One Arm Swing, the Clean and Jerk, the Farmer's walk, shoulder carry the keg across the football field and back, duffle bag carry across the football field and back. It's brutal!

George Hackenschmidt ( the "Russian Bear") the famous wrestler from the turn of the 20th Century, could put 286 lbs over head with one hand!! This was before steroids! This is true strength. If this is what you are seeking I urge you to look to the past.

Hi Larry ,

Glad to see some oldschool hardcore training Fella !

myself I believe in the old ways how the Spartans trained from Greece so yes I know about the Farmerswalk talk about creating monster Wrist powers.

You made a good point there..in the old day they didnt have Whey,creatine,Glutamine etc.etc. makes you wonder is it all a commercial rip off? I dont think thats fair to state I mean we humans make progressions for the better we shall hope so I do think some supplements can help recover you muscles faster from a hard days workout .

thanks for joining our Gymn at TSD..

Oh perhaps you have an idea where would I get some old Car Tyres ? I just need one. it can be all used up thats no problem I need it to build rock hard abs got a nice plan here that requires a Car tyre.

Perhaps you care to tell us how long have you been training oldschool and what you usual diet looks like ?

PS

The amazing Samson looks ripped strong ! seriously dont want to be ever in a fight with such strong guys with guys like that you have to seek the pressure points for weak locations like Knee Caps, under the chin, the adams apple , behind the ear , offcourse the genital area , its hard to train those areas and offcourse your timing would need to be perfect once they would know your going for a particular area they could flex or simply smash you to pieces... wow that Samson.

I wish there were some Video Footages made from those old strong man's they would be hilarious acts on festivals where you;d pay $1 and win $50 if you would beat the strong man. I feel like going out to train but its my another 24Hour resting period . Tommorow some weights again today only cellercising.

Hey Rene!

I would recommend you go to a tire dealer to get an old tire. As for my diet...well, I am not a calorie counter and I do not have a list of things that I can or cannot have. I drink about a gallon of distilled water every day though. Lots of protein from cheese, meat and eggs.

I had to show the ALL TIME best book on the Old Timers. It's Dinosaur training, a gold mine of great stuff.




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I'm on a high carb, low calorie diet. I also drink a gallon of ice cold water per day. My training Bible is..

Good to see lots of water intake from everyone. I myself drink 3 litres of water per day at LEAST... I love the stuff.

So what exactly is everyone's routine? I do this 3x a week.

Bowflex X2 - 1 Set/12 Reps using HIT Technique
1. Leg Extension
2. Deadlift
3. Calf Raise
4. Bench Press
5. Bent Rear Delt Row
6. Seated Shoulder Press
7. Lateral Shoulder Raise
8. Standing Biceps Curl
9. Triceps Extension

I follow it up with 10-15 min. on the elliptical trainer.

It might not seem like a lot but HIT makes a big difference.

Starting tomorrow after my one week warm up process, I will be doing the following:

Using my Cellerciser I will do:

1 minute of the bounce
5 minutes of jogging
50 Front kicks
50 Side kicks
50 Back kicks
1 Minute cooldown bounce

That should take around 10 minutes or so, and I will do this once in the morning, once in the evening for a total of around 20 minutes a day. In between that I will be doing my normal daily walking to get around.

Are we talking tap water here or Mineral water Ken ?

My self atleast 1.5L of mineral water..the other parts will be provided by Tea,Coffee I take and milk to that adds to the water intake per day.

Sounds Excellent there Ken... very impressive set up. the side kicks 50 ! man you will burn your love handles to oblivion I do the side kicks too I can now do them without holding the stabelizer bar but id suggest in the beginning grab that bar its qutie an advanced level move.

I used to drink spring water, but now it is simply tap water. I keep a number of jugs in the fridge at all times. Nothing too complex really... in the end water is water for the most part. I am not THAT picky.. hehe

Ok, it was slightly over a week but I took my measurements.

I did not lose and weight, BUT I did lose a little bit of fat, around .5% Total Body Fat.

Not a lot, but hey it's the first week.

On a side note, to better understand what I need to be doing, I went out and found out my BMR, which is Basal Metabolic Rate. In short this is the number of calories I would need to eat to maintain 100% stable if I did NOTHING all day.

Since to lose 1 pound of fat you need to burn/not take in 3500 calories it would be helpful to know exactly how many calories I need to take in to stay healthy and to lose the weight.

Putting in my stats, I found out my BMR is 1872.25 Calories. I found this out by going here and filling out the form. Pretty simple.

Then I went to here To get a ROUGH idea of how many calories I burn throughout a typical day of activity. In my case it was around 500 calories or so.

Doing my quick math, to lose a pound of fat a week I would need to cut 500 calories a day. So in my case I would need to consume no more than 1800 calories per day while maintaining my 500 calorie per day burn.

Just thought I would share the info for those that might not be in the know about how exactly to find out how much you need to eat/exercise in calories to get some results.

I remember reading once that you can calculate the calories you need to maintain your current wait by simply adding a zero. For example, if you weight 200 pounds, add a zero to make 2000 and that's how many calories you need to stay at 200 pounds. From there, you can figure how many calories less you should eat to lose weight. I don't know if this is an accurate test though..

That is the way I used to hear it too, but it isn't overly accurate. The link I provided takes the real formula into account, but if add a zero thing were true my maintaining calorie amount would be a couple hundred higher than what the formula gave me.

In my case, I REALLY need to adjust to 1800 or so calories per day.. I know I can go through those really easily.. hehe

You will notice improvements Ken just keep the pace your going.

The Rebounder is my Cardio monster machine just jogging full speed for 4m will burn giantic calories. Im quiting one machine at the gymn because I have the cellerciser now no more ROM machine which I used for Cardio my rebounder takes that place now.

very interesting about the calorie intake I have never calculated what my intake should be.

At one point you wanna go from 30m-45m a session on the cellerciser Ken and thats in one go not split up in 2 or 3 session when your at that level fat will fly off.

Portion control is still something I should probably work on.

Right now I have been able to get to two 10 minute sessions on it as I mentioned earlier. We'll see how things go when the next weigh in comes.

Yes Ken try to eat 6 meals a day instead of 3. or atleast 4-5 its much better then the big 3 meals most people do.

I am trying to work it out that way.. my main problem is a little bit too much on the amount side as well as too many calories.

I think once I get those things down everything will take care of itself.

Looks like it is time to count calories..

Well week #2 is in the books and I am happy to report RESULTS!

This week I lose a full pound, and another .2% body fat. Looks like the exercise is finally starting to work, and now that I am cutting calories left right and centre (What? BACK FOUL COOKIES!) things should improve even more for next week!

Current Stats: 226.5 LBS, 41.5% Total Body Fat.
Changes from last weigh in: -1lbs, -0.2% Total Body Fat.

No no... I just meant that I am not allowed to sit and eat a whole batch any more.. :rofl