Re: Old School Strength Training

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> Hi,

> any resources available on the training systems used by

old-school strongmen? Some of the old men displayed remarkable

strength with such little hypertrophy.

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> Thanks

> Kapil Vikramadithyan

> Bangalore,

> India.

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You would be ill-advised to consider training a elite sportsman with

the same methods used by old timers.

Besides, strength in itself is over-rated. How much of your

max-strength can you display in your specific event ? Prowess in the

weight room does not equate performance in sports.

Dan Partelly

Oradea, Romania

[Guest guest]

Crossfit is a good general purpose conditioning program. Its mighty

useless for advanced sportsman in just about any sport you can imagine.

Dan Partelly

Oradea, Romania

> Is Crossfit considered *NEW* old school strength training program?

I think it uses a lot of bodyweight and odd shaped objects as part of

their training regime.

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> Antonowitsch

> San , CA

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> > Subject: Old School Strength Training

> > To: supertraining

> > Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 8:37 AM

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> > Hi,

> > any resources available on the training systems used by

> > old-school strongmen? Some of the old men displayed

> > remarkable strength with such little hypertrophy.

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[Guest guest]

One of the interesting reads of the old school is Farmer Burns - the

famous 'catch as catch can' wrestler of the turn of the century. He

doesn't advocate heavy weight training at all. He made exactly the

same point as Dan.

Hobman

Saskatoon, Canada

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> > Hi,

> > any resources available on the training systems used by

> old-school strongmen? Some of the old men displayed remarkable

> strength with such little hypertrophy.

> >

> > Thanks

> > Kapil Vikramadithyan

> > Bangalore,

> > India.

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> You would be ill-advised to consider training a elite sportsman with

> the same methods used by old timers.

>

> Besides, strength in itself is over-rated. How much of your

> max-strength can you display in your specific event ? Prowess in the

> weight room does not equate performance in sports.

>

> Dan Partelly

> Oradea, Romania

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for the responses.I have already gone through Dinosaur training .

However, I did not really think it was old school. He advocates infrequent heavy

sessions to absolute failure. Whereas to my limited knowledge the oldtimers did

more frequent sessions and almost never trained to failure. I did find this

page with references to what some of the oldtime greats said:

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/259/Particularly amazing did

I find the feats of the mighty atom http://www.mightyatomsuperhero.blogspot.com/

www.sandowplus.co.uk seems to be a good start.

Thanks again,

Kapil Vikramadithyan

Bangalore,

India.