I enjoyed your lecture thoroughly; however, Arthur Saxon was rejected from military service due an eye injury. His younger siblings did served with the Prussian Army. And yes his early death was a loss. Thank you for sharing your video presentation on Arthur Saxon.🧐👊👍🙏
Enjoyed the information of the Saxon Brothers theory in Strength. I am in my Mid forties and looking to the old ways of strength training, true strength training. Hope you make more related videos.
Yeah, they are difficult. Coordinating the body to perform them involves many muscles that, I think, leads to useful strength & a more symmetrical physique.
Great video,, thanks for sharing those facts on Saxon, I'm going to look and see if I can get a copy of those books, as I want to start adding this style of lifting into my own training and do a video series here on youtube on the old school lifts. I already share every workout i do, the bad and good ones on my channel,but this will be a great extra component. I've subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thankyou sir
Great quick rundown, got me thinking about how I should be reading and collecting more olde-tyme strength books. Also shout out to Chip @Bodytribe at :35 doing the barbell bent press.
This is kinda the attitude you see in old school Karate especially when it comes to weight lifting(yes old school Karate-ka lifted weight). Train every day, challenge yourself to do more real life movements, and build stamina. I would say it has some benefits as well as negatives. For me this method works for me but is far from perfect. My main Karate Sensei would say so you want to train to be a truck or a sports car? Fact is he was a sports car....Im a truck. However his point was all about how you train. So I trained with a similar attitude to Saxon even though many will not benefit from it. As the Ultimate Warrior said "Trust your instincts."
Michael, I think you're correct. The old-timers often specialized in "odd lifts" that were difficult to coordinate, so each could claim a "strongest man" title. Saxon was one who could perform well in any lift.
They did a load of isometric workout lifting weights was just to show off that strength that they developed. You look at a gym person today how many of them are push and pulling against something they cannot move? Non but that is how you develop strength. Strong man back in the day would pull on chains would make them stronger they had no idea why. Not until the 1950 german scientist found out that if you do isomentic everyday you can expect to gain between 1% to 12% increase in totally strength per week. Stopped after 5 months what if you kept training in this manner you would be able to break chains and bend steel. Untrained person has only access to 30% of their muscle someone who been training in isometric can have access to 90%. I think you would be able to break those record today if they decided that that lift was the new bench press.
Matt, back in the early 1960s, Bob Hoffman's team of olympic lifters experimented with isometrics. Bill March was publicized in Hoffman's magazines as having some success. It remains unknown if his impressive strength gains were the result of that new (actually, old) form of exercise; or was it a new drug he took called Dianabol? Or, both?
I enjoyed your lecture thoroughly; however, Arthur Saxon was rejected from military service due an eye injury. His younger siblings did served with the Prussian Army. And yes his early death was a loss. Thank you for sharing your video presentation on Arthur Saxon.🧐👊👍🙏
Enjoyed the information of the Saxon Brothers theory in Strength. I am in my Mid forties and looking to the old ways of strength training, true strength training. Hope you make more related videos.
You deserve more subscribers. You da MAN!!!!
Thanks, Yosemite! They're at 550 and climbing ... at a snail's pace.
Good video man. I been looking into bulgarian working up to 1rpm and getting out there. The odd lifts are incredibly difficult too.
Yeah, they are difficult. Coordinating the body to perform them involves many muscles that, I think, leads to useful strength & a more symmetrical physique.
Great video 👍
Great Education! Thanks for the post sir
Good video
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Great video,, thanks for sharing those facts on Saxon, I'm going to look and see if I can get a copy of those books, as I want to start adding this style of lifting into my own training and do a video series here on youtube on the old school lifts. I already share every workout i do, the bad and good ones on my channel,but this will be a great extra component. I've subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thankyou sir
Great video ET I enjoyed it a lot.
Hard Manual Labor is lacking today. Hump Rebar for 8 hours, or shovel concrete for 8 hours, you will get strength 💪🏽
Great video
Great quick rundown, got me thinking about how I should be reading and collecting more olde-tyme strength books.
Also shout out to Chip @Bodytribe at :35 doing the barbell bent press.
Thanks, Dorian. Yeah, that was an impressive lift.
This is kinda the attitude you see in old school Karate especially when it comes to weight lifting(yes old school Karate-ka lifted weight). Train every day, challenge yourself to do more real life movements, and build stamina. I would say it has some benefits as well as negatives. For me this method works for me but is far from perfect.
My main Karate Sensei would say so you want to train to be a truck or a sports car? Fact is he was a sports car....Im a truck. However his point was all about how you train. So I trained with a similar attitude to Saxon even though many will not benefit from it.
As the Ultimate Warrior said "Trust your instincts."
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I think Saxons two hands anyhow lift of 447 pounds still stands to day just incredible how hard that lift is to duplicate much less beat....
Michael, I think you're correct. The old-timers often specialized in "odd lifts" that were difficult to coordinate, so each could claim a "strongest man" title. Saxon was one who could perform well in any lift.
Noticed you called the kettlebell a dumbbell. Just a note. Awesome video.
My bad
They did a load of isometric workout lifting weights was just to show off that strength that they developed. You look at a gym person today how many of them are push and pulling against something they cannot move? Non but that is how you develop strength. Strong man back in the day would pull on chains would make them stronger they had no idea why. Not until the 1950 german scientist found out that if you do isomentic everyday you can expect to gain between 1% to 12% increase in totally strength per week. Stopped after 5 months what if you kept training in this manner you would be able to break chains and bend steel. Untrained person has only access to 30% of their muscle someone who been training in isometric can have access to 90%. I think you would be able to break those record today if they decided that that lift was the new bench press.
Matt, back in the early 1960s, Bob Hoffman's team of olympic lifters experimented with isometrics. Bill March was publicized in Hoffman's magazines as having some success.
It remains unknown if his impressive strength gains were the result of that new (actually, old) form of exercise; or was it a new drug he took called Dianabol? Or, both?
Do you mind me asking how old are you?
Age 76. Workouts getting less intensive, but still fairly regular.
100% natural bodies wow they looked way sexier that body builder from now days
He nvr do high rep at all
After 50 high weight will probably worn out cartilage. Watch out... 😕
This is a problem that few from the "Golden Age" of bodybuilding & weightlifting want to discuss.