4.09.2007
Your Own Style
We have been getting some very good questions sent in and our buddy Denny from Australia recently sent in a great one. The topic of this one is focused on bodyweight training but the answer can be applied to any kind of training so I going to send it out to everyone.
Youll see what I mean, take a look:
that it is easy to become confused.
Fortunately, there is a very simple solution to this but before I tell you, I want
you to read something:
Anyhow, the reason I bring this up is to point out how a very important principle of success is to learn as much as you possibly can then take bits and pieces of what is relevant and apply them to your own individual situation. Then discard what is not necessary
Keep in mind this technique can and should be done for every kind of training.
Let me give you a few good examples of the 'pieces' I have assembled from various points in my training:
Full body training techniques from Arthur Jones
Thick bar training from George Jowett
Log Bar training from Dr. Ken Leistner
Bodyweight movements from Combat Conditioning by Matt Furey
Breathing exercises from Thomas Inch
Power rack work from Brooks Kubik
Lower body training from Super Squats
Phonebook tearing techniques from Dennis Rogers
Attitude from Kim Wood
These are just a few off the top of my head and I could easily name many more. They key here with all the different training courses, is again, to take what you need from each of them and apply them as needed to give your training your own unique sense of style.
All a training course -- any training course -- can do is make you think: 'That looks interesting, but how can I apply this to my own workout?"
This is a question, of course, that you will have to figure out on your own, but it can be done, and be done very effectively, at least for those who decide to put it into action.
All things CAN yield knowledge as TS says.
Train hard,
John Wood
If you would like some extremely creative ideas on bodyweight training, here is
a tremendous resource that you would be well advised to check out:
Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength by Brad Johnson
Youll see what I mean, take a look:
Hi John,Denny, great question, one that is relevant in many situations. It usedto be that training information was often tough to come by as there were only a few sources. These days, there is so much information and so many options
I have been hard at weight training for a couple of years now, started with Dinosaur training then recently moved onto the HIT program, which makes good sense.
I have been interested in the bodyweight training for a while but there seems to be a few programs through which to begin any serious endeavors.
There is Matt Furey's, Brad Johnson's and the esteemed Brooks Kubik's new program.
Where to start???
Thanks man.
Denny
that it is easy to become confused.
Fortunately, there is a very simple solution to this but before I tell you, I want
you to read something:
The previous excerpt is from 'A Sense of Where you Are' by John McPhee, a fantastic biography of the great basketball player Bill Bradley. If you get a chance to read it, I would very highly recommend checking it out even if you aren't a basketball fan
"Most basketball players appropriate fragments of other players styles and thus develop their own. This is what [Bill] Bradley has done but one of the things that set him apart from nearly everyone else is that the process has been conscious rather than osmotic.
His Jump shot, for example, has had two principles influences. One is Jerry West, who has one of the best jumpers in basketball. [The other was Terry Dischinger of the Detroit Pistons who always slams his foot to the floor on the last step before a jump shot because this stops his momentum and prevents drift.]
Bradley's graceful hook shot is a masterpiece of eclecticism. It consists of the high-lifted knee of the Los Angeles Lakers Darral Imhoff, the arms of Bill Russell, of the Boston Celtics, who extends his idle hand far under his shooting arm and thus agically stabilizes the shot, and the general corporeal of Kentucky's Cotton Nash.
His set shot is borrowed from Ed Macauley who was a St. Louis University All- American in the late forties and was later a star member of the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks."
Anyhow, the reason I bring this up is to point out how a very important principle of success is to learn as much as you possibly can then take bits and pieces of what is relevant and apply them to your own individual situation. Then discard what is not necessary
Keep in mind this technique can and should be done for every kind of training.
Let me give you a few good examples of the 'pieces' I have assembled from various points in my training:
Full body training techniques from Arthur Jones
Thick bar training from George Jowett
Log Bar training from Dr. Ken Leistner
Bodyweight movements from Combat Conditioning by Matt Furey
Breathing exercises from Thomas Inch
Power rack work from Brooks Kubik
Lower body training from Super Squats
Phonebook tearing techniques from Dennis Rogers
Attitude from Kim Wood
These are just a few off the top of my head and I could easily name many more. They key here with all the different training courses, is again, to take what you need from each of them and apply them as needed to give your training your own unique sense of style.
All a training course -- any training course -- can do is make you think: 'That looks interesting, but how can I apply this to my own workout?"
This is a question, of course, that you will have to figure out on your own, but it can be done, and be done very effectively, at least for those who decide to put it into action.
All things CAN yield knowledge as TS says.
Train hard,
John Wood
If you would like some extremely creative ideas on bodyweight training, here is
a tremendous resource that you would be well advised to check out:
Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength by Brad Johnson
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