GEORGE HACKENSCHMIDT AND THE SUPINE PRESS FOR MASSIVE POWER!! BRONZE ERA SERIES
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2019
- In this video we look at the legendary George Hackenschmidt. Hack was known for his incredible upper body development, which he attributes to the Supine Press. Enjoy
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When you see a guy built like this today what is the first thing you hear? "Oh, they must be on steroids" George Hackenschmidt and Eugene Sandow are two of the names I always bring up to show that a man, if he works hard enough, eats right and has the correct genetics CAN in fact build an awesome physique. Those guys were around and built their bodies before steroids.
Also why they always had the strength and power to back it up!
Also bobby pandour
Genetics have nothing to do with it, if man wisheth to be a beast they be a beast.
But you also need to live natty with your grandpa's level of test (easily >1000)
@@BedroomBully88 Ah no, genetics play a HUGE part in the final outcome. Yes, hard work and consistency count for a great deal as well but everything else being equal, the man with the superior genetics will have the better physique.
What was I even DOING with my life before the Golden Era Bookworm came in like a blessed bodybuilding angel of information, strength, and fortitude?
Fabulous content. I hope your store is selling lots.
It's picking up slowly
A completely different breed of man.
If George were alive & in his prime today he'd be king.
You said it man
Hackenschmidt was a natty unlike all the fakes today
@@LUKERs1196 there are nattys out there today reaching this level too... probably even more than in older times since fitness is a booming thing nowadays.
He was awesome. His book The Way To Live is quite good. I wish he and Gama could have gone at it in a match.
NOW THAT WOULD'VE BEEN SOMETHING
My money on the Russian Lion
Gama was an Indian wrestler I read about in the 1960 book "Muscle Building for Beginners" written by two English bodybuilders Michael Fallon and Jim Saunders.
my friend do you know that we watch each of your videos again and again and again? at least ten times each, as if there is hidden mystical knowledge in them,
keep delivering
Thank you for everything Carlos!
Excellent! Bruno Sammartino was another strength athlete who in his younger days was very big on the floor-press into the wrestlers-bridge.
Cool
@@GoldenEraBookworm and a Pittsburgher!
And Bruno never took steroids,was totally against them
It would develop the rib cage as well right
Fantastic thank you!💪🏻
Keep them coming ,great stuff
Thanks
if I had 3 wishes. I think one of them would be to have lived during this time. It was so raw and so organic, everything was new and honest back then . No selfies , no social media, no mainstream gyms, no cookie cutters, it would have been wonderful and pure. What a wonderful time to be involved in the bodybuilding sub-culture.
And then some dumbass shot an Austrian archduke and everything went to crap.
Easy&cool to do. tank you again.
I really appreciate your channel!
Thanks
another great video... i actually prefer the floor press than a bench, easier on the shoulders.
CORRECT
He's a massive inspiration for me, I do the hack squat at home with my barbell the proper way lol
And the floor press.
Good stuff, GEB - always good stuff 🔥
Hehe
Did my first hack squat today, just love it, going to include them in my training routine. Not really known by the most bodybuilders that run around in the gyms.
thanks
Another wrestler you might look into is the recently deceased Bruno Sammartino. I believe him to be another genetic freak, when considering his physique and even his jawline (a supposed indicator of testosterone levels). He was incredibly strong, and he claimed to be steroid free. He claimed that he would not associate with other wrestlers who were on gear.
565 pound world record bench press in 1959 with no rubber suits, wraps etc. Nearly beat out Paul Anderson for the Olympic team.
I will look into this topic
@@trappenweisseguy27 Paul Anderson outweighed him by over 80 pounds when this took place,Bruno weighing 280 pounds at 6 foot one
Kevin, iirc Paul was either injured or sick around this time so he was not the unstoppable force that he normally would have been.
great vid m8
Thanks
I showed this the young lads at the gym , and told them it was over 120 years ago , no one could believe it , I know hak has incredible genetics 🧬 but it was still amazing to see there faces as they thought you would have to be geared up 💉 to look like hak did , hopefully it will put some of them off . I benched 500 lbs in comp at 18 clean , it’s not all about the steroids, plus I trained 5 years before my first course , and at nearly 50 I’m stil rockin the gym with 20 inch arms weighing 245 lean , and all I take is trt 250 mg a week , your foundation is the important thing that way you keep your gains, god bless you all .
powerfull George,
There was a little bit in one of the illustrations about starting at 5 reps, adding one rep each workout for so long then adding weight and repeating from 5- such a great and simple progression method and unfortunately not something you see at all these days. All you see now is a champion bodybuilder routine of 3 sets of 10 of this isolation exercise, then 3 sets of 10 of this other isolation exercise and nothing about how to add reps/ weight
This is the basic progression scheme I use for big lifts, from 5 to 7-8 before increasing weight and going back to 5 reps. I do some back off sets as well after this top set. If I get stuck, I lower the working weight by about 10% and do more volume for a short cycle, then go back to the top set strategy. The old school aproach is all you need.
This was a great episode!
Thanks
Now we are talking! Guy was a legend. Awesome stuff mate. We need to arrange this Skype 🖒
I'm ready, been waiting for you
@@GoldenEraBookworm 🖒
@@OldSchoolStrength email me when you sorted your Skype
@@GoldenEraBookworm email you shortly 🖒
I am currently using his training methods and he shows you CAN train 6 days a week if u are training Bronze Age style
Excellent
hey dude hows that going for you?
Great video. I had no idea the hack squat was named after him. We always learn something new from you every day : )
Thanks man
can you make a video on top 10 strongest bronze era athletes and top 10 strongest silver era athletes top 10 strongest people from golden era and top 10 strongest people ever
I was wondering what with today's knowldge of nutrition and such if you would do a video on how to combine old school bronze age training methods and modern nutriotional biohacking
Not really, get his book on my website, it explains his training and nutrition
Squats in the front and deads in the back
I will try buddy.
Cool
Great to see this video of the great strongman, wrestler and a legend from the late 1800’s. Hack deep knee bend now we call it as squat was not a deadlift, now a days hack squats version performed in the gyms are not the original version. The real version of the same is mentioned in his book the way to live. That’s super exercise, holding a barbell behind your back with a moderate weight and bend deep down as you can on toes, heels elevated again come up back again and continue reps further. His world record of hack deep knee bend on toes, heels elevated not with support of plates or any other, is still unbroken in today’s era of steroids and powders.
He was the HACK
This exercise existed in Germany before Hackenschmidt, he popularised this exercise and this was one of his favourite ones.
www.researchgate.net/publication/257141154_Florian_Hemme_and_Jan_Todd_Beyond_the_Hack_Squat_George_Hackenschmidt's_Forgotten_Legacy_as_a_Strength-Training_Pioneer
Can you please do a video on Manohar Aich. He was called pocket Hercules.
I know, later ok. This channel will last a lifetime
Thanks !!!
Did silver era bodybuilders pack their shoulders when they bench pressed? Or were they totally flat backed while benching?
Read a book anout how he drank 10 or more pints of raw milk a day plus food 👌
I wish i could get raw milk.....but its illegal in America....
@@josephperkins4080 illegal? I buy it at the grocery store.
.call a local dairy farm
@@bjenkins3860 yeh here is the state's stores can only sell ugh...pasturized milk :(
Thankz ill have to look around for one
@@josephperkins4080 I live in rural idaho so it's easily available for me. I drink half gallon a day really easy way to keep your calories high without eating more solid food.
why was it called the "supine press", supination is the underhand grip and pronation the regular overhand grip you would take on a barbell
Nicklas H i believe its due to lying on the floor aka floor press
@@ListeningKyle ahaa, that would make sense, since the person would then lie supine
Nicklas H its a great movement, i actually use the floor press in my training and rarely ever do flat bench
@@ListeningKyle personally i focus more on the press and then use a horizontal press variation (often cgbp) as an assistance
Mike Valdez ur right i dont own a flat bench haha
How much do You bench?
anyone have any idea how guys got big back then from daily exercise in light of what modern science says
Supine press would be similar to our modern day Larsen press ?
Insane genetics 💪
HELL YEAH
The first remark a person who has put mental limitations on themselves.🙄🙄Its easier to do that and accept being mediocre then train hard and get similar results
More routines for teens? Old school training routines
Can i substitute this to my Bench Press once?
Levis the 67 of course brother, go look up westside barbell (they are powerlifters)... and they mainly do partials. this is to target weak points. so if your triceps are what’s stalling progress, then go ahead and do the supine (floor) press. pause reps are good too, really nice chest pump
Ok.
@@ListeningKyle Bingo!!!
@@countrydawn418 I'm giving you all a $1000 tip tonight, don't miss it
Your cool videos are natural not possible!
What the? Dude, your English could be better. I don't know what you're saying
Is that a compliment?
I agree mani not possible!
Wtf is the op saying?
Joseph Strong don’t know. It’s French I think
Young bodybuilders today who take drugs to build a little bit of muscle and think you need steroids to build a physique like theirs.
Imagine if they stood next to George, most of them would look like a sack of sh#t.
its Russian Empire and then USSR - just a history chaps
(btw you're mispronouncing "supine"! the emphasis is in the first syllable, not the last one! SU-pine, not su-PINE)
The reason strongman or bodybuilders of today, are not as good as the bronze or silver era physical Culturist, is that there is so much knowledge of what is good and bad that's it's confusing, example ATG squat or half squat which one do you do and not much creativity by the younger generation they follow routines like sheep's.
I think the Past Era bodybuilders or Strongman knew a bit or quite a lot of Anatomy and physiology due to their job as Strongman,they had to figure it out themselves, which the Modern Era bodybuilders didn't know and would have the nerve to laugh at some of the practices of Previous Era bodybuilders, on the account that they are stupid, thinking they know.
This is the prone press ..not the supine press
His thighs were so long what the fuck
So ... the bench press?
So...you didn't learn anything....
Milk milk milk....."raw"
Meat, fruit, veg
@@GoldenEraBookworm I'm done raw milk you definitely gain size and strength. But for me anyways I'll Never See abs like that drinking milk.
I've done....not im done
@@bjenkins3860 I thought the same but doing abs daily changed that. Exercises like ankle taps, knee taps, and bicycles take about 10 minutes if you do 2 sets of each.
i doubt that at that time there wasnt an enhancament drug or something
Whatever
@@GoldenEraBookworm of all the things you have posted, which exercise is your favorite?
@@closegripbenchpress489 the squat, because it transformed me
@@mikevaldez7684 yeah yeah, lol
@@mikevaldez7684 only kings choose the SQUAT bro
So, you see. The strongest from ancien time are all German
He wasn't German
Baltic Germanic Nordic Celtic or Anglo. All Europeans come from th same stalk more or less. 💪
@@bjenkins3860 That is true, but he was Estonian with Estonian Swedish decent, not German
Op...racist much
@@GoldenEraBookworm 'Hackenschmidt' is as German as it gets for a surname. A quick search reveals 'Georg Hackenschmidt war der Sohn eines baltendeutschen Vaters und einer estnisch-schwedischen Mutter.' Translation: his father was a baltic German (=ethnically Germans who relocated to the Baltics) and his mother Estonian-Swedish.