Perhaps I'm being too critical, I mean the dummies of the world were convinced up until very recently that echoes were the devil incarnate trying to deceive you. I shit you not good reader, the devil. As if there is such a thing. This is why science must be de-mon-strated or if you prefer: de-monster-ated, because the people of the day would accuse you of being "in league with Satan" if you seemed smarter than them; then burn you.
If you look back to the renaissance, they laughed at how primitive the people of two centuries previous were. Then during the Baroque era they laughed at the primitive renaissance and now we laugh at how primitive the Baroque era was. We are equally as primitve, in two hundred years people will look back at us and say "wow can you believe those cavemen thought that _____________? I mean it's common sense you just look at _______ and you know _________. Was everybody then retarded?" The answer is yes and if you can't recognize that we are in fact infantile morons barely scraping enough intelligence together to crawl out of cave then, you sir, are still in the cave (Plato's allegory).
But I have digressed.
Back to training.
Does a construction worker only do hard work every other day? Do roofers only carry shingles up ladders every other day? I'm sure by now you can see where I'm going with this. The three days per week bit is nothing but outdated quasi scientific dogma. Westside lifters do more workouts per week than there are days, same with Olympic lifters. Not only can you workout every day but you can workout more than once every day.
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| Chuck Vogelpohl works out more than three times a week - usually twelve times. I don't know what it is but something tells me it's not all that bad for you... |
I'm not saying it's easy or that you won't be tired or wish you were dead but you can do it and, once you adapt to the training frequency, get strong as fuck. As fuck I say, as fuck. That's why the aforementioned elite athletes use this type of training: it works good.
The Bulgarian weightlifting team, who is basically a collective god in the sport of Olympic lifting, was faced with a problem: a lifter's testosterone peaks after about forty five minutes of beginning their workout. Their solution is pure genius in it's simplicity: do more forty five minute workouts a day! Then you can have huge amounts of training frequency and very low acute fatigue this means the sport skills were drilled constantly to keep their groove fresh, heavy so as approximate the competition environment and fresh so that the lifter is able to put maximal output into the bar for every lift. To boot it also raises the lifters natural testosterone production like crazy. Pretty dope eh?
You can use this incredibly hardcore idea yourself despite the fact that you aren't really that hardcore. Do a bodyweight exercise four times a day, don't go to failure, always leave some in the tank, you'll need it to recover properly. If you can do 12 triangle pushups, do seven to nine - four times daily and don't blame me when you have to buy new shirts.
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| Looks like Sergio could use a bigger shirt.... and a smaller watchband. |
I prefer that you use an exercise that generates more total body tension than pushups but what I'm saying is that even that will work. Mechanics usually have huge forearms simply because they reef on them hard everyday. Sailors, who used to have reputation for being buff before they had a reputation for being gay, often had huge lats, biceps and forearms from pulling on huge ropes and climbing rigging, which they obviously did daily. No Mon - Wed - Fri or body part split. "Sorry Cap, today is chest day", I think would've received a cool "keel haul him" from the captain.
John Grimek was almost defeated in a pressing competition by a Swedish fisherman who, daily, lifted huge steel baskets over his head (with a curl grip too!).
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| JOhn Grimek, |
