Previously
HERE I wrote about the daft stupidity of the band AC/DC and the music that gets
me fired up for training, well this time I thought I would show some of the
videos that leave me wanting to punch the faces of small kittens the world
over, watch them, get to the gym and set a new PR, because if you don’t, you
are a pussy!
Derek
Poundstone, 31 years and around 155kg of body weight, The Viper trains around
his full time duties as a revenue collector. He has managed to gain 2 Arnolds
Strongest Man and 3 Americas strongest man titles. Any thought that Strong Man
is an illegitimate test of abilities gets completely overturned when you read
his personal records in the power lifting world, at age 23 he was Benching 200
and pulling nearly 300. Perhaps the
highlight of this video for me is in the intro where he states “you can make
excuses for everything, oh this hurts, that hurts, excuses will only get you so
far, but they won’t get you anywhere with me”
If there
is one thing that fires me up to train it’s ‘Surviving the Cut’, these guys
will make you feel weak and lazy and shit, they get sent to hell and back, made
to pack march for hours, swim in pools with their hands tied behind their backs
and deal with drill instructors screaming abuse for weeks on end. If that does
not put your pain levels in perspective, nothing will.
No matter
how hard you try; you will never be as cool as The Rock, I tried to find his
training logs.
However, it seems he just does not post them, with the exception
of the below video he tends to keep his training to himself with only a few promo-shoots
for magazines and the likes. If there is anything to be taken from the below
video it appears he trains with similar methodology to NFL Footballers, High
Intensity, Short intervals, Lots of dynamic and agility training jumping,
sprinting and performing Olympic lifts. Obviously; this is his ‘wrestling’
training and he changes to more body building specific part-for-part training
before movies and photo shots but I think the take home message is; don’t be a
pussy, train long, hard and don’t make excuses. Fired up? Yeah Rock gets my man
crush going!
Benedikt
Magnusson is nothing short of a human freak; he has previously spoken about ‘not
taking training too seriously’ yet he still manages to be the best Dead Lifter
the world has ever seen. According to Power Lifting Watch his training
typically involves 3 week cycles of week 1 8x2 at around 50-60%, week 2; 4-6
sets of 3 at 50-75% and then week 3 using the ‘Jeff Jet method’ where he starts
with a rack pull, has training partners pull the safety rails out and then
completes an entire Dead lift, His unique system is somewhat similar to Andy
Bolton who also has spoken extensively about staying well below maximal weights
when training the Dead lift. However, when you see him engage beast mode, you
know shit’s getting real
Love or
hate him, Tito Ortiz is without doubt one of the most badass mofo’s on the face
of the planet, when training he would travel to ‘Big Bear’ about 3 hours drive
from his home in California, Tito believed that training at 7000 feet of
altitude resulted in increased V02 uptake, but mostly kept him away from the
distractions of big cities, his training camps would consist of an early
morning run in the snow followed by MMA and Boxing drills, Conditioning and
lifting mid-afternoon, followed by Wrestling in the evenings. Still want to
talk about over training?
