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By: Rob Rhino
Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Source: http://leanhybridmuscle.com/
Good read….I remember the 80’s Giants and Lawrence Taylor. I don’t think he ever touched a weight in his first ten years as a pro. This guy was the best example of brute ‘real world’ strength coupled with a nasty attitude.
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ReplyPJ 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress
too true bout the real life strenth. my sister is a good example in a different way. she was a bodybuilder and really cut but then stoped when she started diving. after the divig she lost alot of her musscel mass but was 3 times stronger than when she was body building. that was 9 years ago and now she is even stronger and has hardly lifted a weight since. working as a rousie an the sheep pens must ... See all content
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ReplyMichael Moore 3 months, 4 weeks ago on Wordpress
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ReplyCary 4 months ago on Wordpress
My cousin Vern is freakishly strong and as far as I know he has never trained seriously. About five years ago I was helping him move(that’s what he does, he owns a moving company) and watched him pick up a treadmill using only his arm and shoulder strength and put it in the back of the truck. At that time I could bench 320, press 280, and curl 150 and my gym strength couldn’t touch his ... See all content
ReplyMatt 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
I work with a MMA kid who has never lifted a weight in his life but his strength and power are off the charts!! It’s unbelievable! Guess How I train him? Yup! Functional, compound movement, odd objects. The tire, sledge, sandbags, etc. We all know it works for “real life” strength and workload capacity!!!! I have begged him to get in the weight room for a month because I’m dying ... See all content
ReplyHerm 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
My father..He worked in a factory loading and driving fork lifts, before that hauling and installing large appliances like washers/dryers, fridges and Window air conditioning units. When he was in his 30’s I’d watch him and his brother swap engine blocks out under an oak tree using a chain and pully and he was the wench. He’s 60 now and I still think he’s probably stronger than ... See all content
ReplyNjama 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
My grandfather (RIP)was the strongest man I’ve ever known … rarely set foot in the gym but he was 1 naturally strong, but being an ex boxer he did alot of body weight training and actually use to take me out with him when he’s train on a farm!!! You never know how heavy hay could be until you lift it onto a platform. He loved swimming, walking and arm wrestling (beat me everytime!)
ReplyMike 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
My grandfather boxed in the army back in the 40’s, but never lifted any weights. He did a lot of manual labor with jack hammer crews and then later ran his own tire shop. His grip was like a vice. He would challenge his grand kids and local weightlifters to grip contests. He would always make any competitor buckle. this went on well into his 70’s. Strong old school dudes.
ReplyLucas Jones 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
Thanks for the article! I agree about the real life strength. Even though I get jealous when I see these huge guys benching 300+ pounds, but I’d rather know that if I was hanging from a ledge of a cliff that I could pull myself up or if a tree had fallen and trapped a loved one I could help move it. Thats real life strength.
ReplyJoshua Vasquez 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
I rarely hit the gym, all my workouts were actual work. From loading bails of hay, moving full kegs of beer around and working with axes and sledge hammers, my work has afforded me a little what I call “sneaky strength”. I’m 6′0″ 230 lbs. with a small tire around the midsection.
I started taking traditional jiu-jitsu six months ago with my four sons. That’s
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Replyzach Even - Esh 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
Mike and Elliott – in my town of edison, there is a tire yard…. It was the ONE thing missing from my garage workouts and my friend and I popped over one week to see if we could fiip some tires one saturday morning.
They said “Yes” and we were psyched!
I was 220 and pretty damn strong….ehhhh, gym strong I guess
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ReplyMads 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
I have a question, Wouldn’t compund exercises like squat and deadlift, give you something like this real life strenght? To try and dublicate this real life strenght into a gym, and get that elusive type 3 muscle, wouldn’t the 20 rep squat program be ideal (the squat and milk, you know )?
ReplyJohn 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
Man this reminds me of the training I did when I use to wrestle in high school. I would come out of football strong, wrestle all season doing nothing but practice and cutting weight to make a certain weight class; however, after the wrestling season was over, I could always bench more, do more dips, deadlift more, etc. I also felt more functional. I felt faster, lighter, and all around strong. The ... See all content
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ReplyKevin Holloway 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
My grandad was a great example of “real world” strength. He loved to challenge us to arm wrestle him, and would always beat us. He always had a “trick” that he wanted to show us. He would load a full 55 gallon barrel in the back of a pickup, by getting the liquid moving so the momentum would allow him to load it. Also he had some implement weights that he would lift over his ... See all content
ReplyRobert Martin 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
Oh yeah, I know someone with “old man” strength – me, at age 61! I haven’t set foot in a gym in years, but check out these videos:
http://lookgreatnakedatanyage.com/
No weights, no machines, no crunches, no “dreadmills.” Just multijoint bodyweight workouts, high intensity interval cardio and believe it or not, a low fat, low protein, raw vegan diet!
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ReplyDano 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
Depending on what you locale and situation you got to get creative. I have always done that looking at what I have or is around me that I can use to find a new way to work muscles and have some fun and challenge. Even when I went camping I found ways to work my muscles with rocks, trees and picnic tables. People though I was nuts but I didn’t care.
Be observant and use your imagination
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ReplyJordan nichols 4 months, 1 week ago on Wordpress
I agree, Old Man strength still rules out fancy machines and such, i just wish there was a set list of outdoor workouts to do to build up such strength
ReplyDano 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
I continue to love all these comments. Excellent! This was a great conversation to start. I am now looking around my home, yard a garage and basement for stuff I can convert into hybrid work out equipment. I got some ideas that I think will work even at my age and give me some more strength at the gym. My upper body strength is not what I wish it was but my legs are strong. I can leg press 14 plates ... See all content
ReplyJames 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
I am 62 years old and 5′7″ and weigh 160 . I worked in a rubber plant years ago and weighed 140 then . I would take 80lb. pieces of unfinished rubber and load them into boxes of 40 and a yak would pick them up and bring another . I go to the gym several times a week and do bent over curls with 40lb. dumbbells . I can max out the sitting leg machine . By the way I had a total hip replacement ... See all content
Reply"Iron"Mike 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
My dad had both..real world strength AND gym strength. He never touched a wt until his senior yr in college playing defensive lineman at Indiana 58-’60. He decided to see if weights could improve his game b/c he went up against a guy who he said had to be the strongest lineman he ever faced-a guy by the name of Alex Caras (you may know him from 70’s sitcom Webster). My Dad STARTED with ... See all content
ReplyAntoine 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
Both my uncles are like that… one’s been workin on assembling and taking care of pools and all kinds of stuff forever, always outside working with his hands, his forearms are crazy!
And my other uncle been working as a cars transmissions mechanic for years and years, torquing down strong bolts and holding transmissions, they both are strong as hell!
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ReplyWill Powers 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
My friend, an owner of the gym i go to, is 55 years old. Since he was 15 years old, he has been training, and in his youth he competed in several local competitions. His back and arms are amazing. His father on the contrary, 78 years old, is a cabinet maker and carpenter since his youth. One weekend, my friend, his father, and myself started building an outdoor gym area–just the walls and the ... See all content
ReplyDave 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
Yea, me. 51 yrs old with 20 yrs as an Ironworker. I have been training in the gym now for over 13 yrs and my strength working in construction was greater. Of course I am older now, however my nutrition and lifestyle over the last 13 yrs is prestine. When I was in construction, I ate crappy food and only ate 2 times a day and yet I can lift more outside the gym than inside. In part due to the psychological ... See all content
ReplyHoward 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
My dad was “old man strong”. He never went to a gym, he never worked out (except for his swimming after his heart attack at 60, and, he just swam laps… oh so ever slowly). Well… he had an operation, never woke up, and the nurse (a male nurse, who looked to be in good shape) remarked at how strong this 80 year old, who was unconscious, was… as the nurse had difficulty in ... See all content
ReplyDano 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
What I am reading in my e mails convinces me of the truth of real strength come not from the gym but from honest work and a strong desire to be healthy. I have friends who constantly tell me to slow down, don’t do so much or work so hard. Many of them are overweight and soft, why should I listen to them? I plan if God gives me the years to work hard and work out at the gym too.
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ReplyMike 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
I definately have experience with this. My brother in law is a construction guy, probably weighs a buck and a half. I can out bench and out squat him, in fact- I can probably double most of his weights. About a year ago, I hired him to do some work around my house. We had to lift bags of cement, big boards of sheet rock etc. I found that I tired quite quickly and had to put down my load before he did ... See all content
Replymike 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
I’m 55 @ 15%bf @ 216 but my elbows are worn out and shoulders are gone from carrying houses around acting like a carpenter for 35 years. so I have no bench to speak of and workouts that involve arms are very painful, but I do them and keep very strong. “Even with pain there is gain”
Replysly 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
Hey guys and galls,
My name is Sylvain but my friends call me Sly. I’m a French Canadian living in Montréal city into the province of Quebec, the land of the strongest man of all time; Louis Cyr. Just goggle is name to take a look at some of his personal and still unbeaten world record.
When peoples get stuck into snow (The winter is just crazy and out of control here!!!) they came
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Replypizzaman 4 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress
I believe old man strength begins at a very early age.starting at school in gym class and competing with others,always never giving in to defeat and a stong desire to be better and overcome all obstacles to achieve a better and stronger me!competing in school sports and always wanting to win will make you stronger and fit for life,as in life you will overcome many obstacles making you stronger.as a ... See all content
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