@natty life as per exercise 6 you can find a similar, modern kettlebell exercise in Pavel Tsatsouline "More kettlebell challenges" named as traditional bent press (that adds a squat, not a straight leg movement at the end af the lift)
Hey bro nice videos u make..btw u can get clean muscle without gaining fat if u cycle ketogenic diet as u train for example 3 weeks strict keto then 1week u do carbs with meals and than again 3weeks keto and so on and if u do intermittent fasting ,although it will be much slower bcs anabolic response from insulin to fat and protein is lower when compared to carbs ,..i do bodyweight workout for 9+ years and i cycled keto for first 7 years and gained 9kg of lean muscle,for last two years i started doing weighted calisthenics (30kg vest) and stopped keto cycle now i eat carbs every day(with dinner mostly and not over 150g) and in last two years gained 5kg ,but most of that 5kg is fat and water weight maybe 1 or 2 kg is muscle ..my point is clean muscle is very slow to gain but possible ,u get bigger faster with carb bcs carbs tank ur glycogen stores ( in muscle and liver ) so u gain mass but not clean muscle ..there r people who can eat load of carbs and still look jacked without gaining to much fat ( mostly ectomorphs and mesomorphs body type) but generaly consuming carbs frequently ( 3- 4 x day) over time will get u fat
If I've learned anything from these old timey dudes who got jacked doing "sub-optimal" programs with janky equipment, it's the hard work and consistency are by far the most important factors in muscle gain. haha
To me that points to genetics. I'm sure we all know a guy that either never went to the gym or is very inconsistent but is still more muscular than a lot of people
Fitness culture and influencers have a problem: How can one make money from my physique when the the 99% percent factors in building muscle are consistency, lifting heavy, eating and sleeping well. It's not a special exercise routine, a special protein or eating testicles. No wonder so many of them blast PED's and then say it was their product, its the only way it can be monetised.
The wisdom at the end is just amazing. "Make moderation in all things your motto. Don't become a slave to barbells or physical culture." These are words to live by, not only for lifters, but for anyone who is prone to obsession and extremes. Thank you for sharing man, looking forward to learning more.
I'm obsessive but if not for that I couldn't have stuck with it for over 45 years. I have learned to ease up though. When young I would do 3 hour workouts 6 days a week.
You can be great or you can be moderate you cannot be both at once, I don't know anyone who has stuck with good training for better than 20 years who wasn't obsessed with their health. "Seek the middle" has become like a religious mantra in our time, and I don't buy it, granted you should know when to rest and take a break now and then, but all too often I see such thinking used to excuse mediocrity.
I KNEW HIM!! He used to go to the Hudson Health Club on the West Side in NYC. He was the nicest guy you can imagine; a real gentleman. I took the bus with him up Broadway.. he told me he had a collection of fancy Beer Mugs at home; I'll bet this was a nice collection. At the health club he did some amazing one handed lifts balancing the large barbell with his hand in the middle. no one else could do this. He was a real "Man's Man" a good person and highly intelligent.
@petetestube2904 CZcams is full of these kinds of comments. the commenter never has any videos. It would be great if CZcams would let you search a user's comments. Every time I see a comment like this it's the same. "Oh yeah I was lead designer on that project, blah blah". "My brother was in that unit, blah blah". Sure. I'll bet each of these mugs make all kinds of pointless claims and jerks off to the likes or something
The muscle that you felt get sore in the "oblique" exercise was probably the quadratus lumborum, a very deep low back muscle that is active in lumbar sidebending and extension.
Sigmund Klein's personal record was 19 tiger bends in a row! I think that nobody was able to beat this record yet! Just to show, how difficult even one tiger bend is, I must say that I could never do even one rep even though my personal record at wall handstand push ups was 12.
Great job on the demonstrations bro! Proves that building a great physique doesn't require a lot of advanced principles, just hammering basic fundamentals over time 💪
I don't know how this basic principle got lost. Well, I do... it was the publishing of magazines like Weider's 'muscle & fitness' and all the drivel they had to fill it up with to keep people buying it. Stuart McRobert tried to turn the tide in the 80s/90s and published a good book called 'Brawn' which went back to the old tried and true methods of the 'bronze' and 'silver' era.
I started doing Exercise 6 and holy - does it feel good. You can literally feel your obliques stretching - definitely putting it in my exercise arsenal. Great content as always.
That Tiger bend is insane! I can do a handstand against a wall, but that's it! Though I always thought you had to be able to get a plumb straight body to do freestanding handstands or handstand push-ups, so it was interesting to see that's clearly not the case. My maternal grandmother apparently dragged one foot but could walk on her hands! So maybe I should try harder!
I totally agree. I've been trainning handstand variations for some years. I can do free standing handstand holds for more than 30s and some reps of handstand pushups. However, I still can't do this tiger band variation... just for you to imagine how hard it is to achieve this movement... it not only requires strength, but also a lot of skill and technique to execute it.
I'm glad you covered the curl first, as it is the most important exercise in any body building program. What I like about these exercises (and I think the lesson to be taken away) is that they used compound movements to build mass. Even suboptimal versions of them clearly are able to build amazing size. Great video as always keep them coming man!
@@jessegarris7037 Yeah more or less. However if bigger biceps were your goal then I’d argue it’s not. But yes I know curls are not the important exercise for virtually every other purpose
The Tiger's Bend was the coolest one to watch of all these exercises, and I appreciate you including your attempt, too! Learning that Klein was around my size (I am currently 145lbs, very short) makes me feel very inspired! Also, I have done something similar to the 7th exercise in your vid, the barbell triceps exercise done behind your body. But I have done it with a typical double-overhand grip on the bar, just having it behind me, and I bend at the hips to create a bit more ROM. I really feel this in my lats and rear delts, like going beyond the end ROM of a cable lat-pullover. I jokingly call them "Naruto Runs," because the end ROM at the top creates that position lol so far, I can only use 55lbs on it before my form suffers and I start "kipping."
I’m a Calisthenics athlete and handstands are my bread and butter. The tiger bend push up took some time…cool thing is, there are many progressions or regressions to build up to the handstand. Pike push-ups, Hindu push-ups , deep decline push-ups. You need to utilise your finger strength to control your balance in the handstand,,,this will also protect your wrist for hyper extending during handstand push-ups against the wall. Parallel bars or paralettes will help a lot in making that mind muscle connection to controlling your body to stay upright. Also for tiger bend you will need to be able to do deep handstand push-ups so if using the wall for balance, use paralette bars or even two chairs to place your hands onto to get deeper.
Yes , I had forgotten about the "windmills" which I used to do with the kettlebell. I like the look of the tricep exercise and will definitely give that a go next arm day. thank you for all your hard work putting this together
Excercise #6 is a somewhat common exercise among kettlebells enthusiasts. They call it the windmill. And I find it’s actually much more comfy to do it with a kettlebell
Exercise 6 is a well-known exercise within kettlebells called the windmill. You got the twist down quite well! Try to keep your arm straight while bending 😃
Loved this! I recently started going to the gym and one of my current goals is to build a body but also capabilities based on a similar training from the bronze and silver era of bodybuilding, i think that some things were amazing back then. Thanks for making this video, it was really interesting!
4:48 is called the windmill. It's still popular amongst kettlebell athletes. Check out Lebe Stark Kettlebell windmill tutorial. He actually did a video which you'll be interested in. He goes into the history of kettlebell.
hey bro, if you want to do handstand pushups for size you should face your stomach against the wall. This way you can regulate difficulty (by leaning) while eliminating technical demands (no balance)
at 1:19 the photo on the left is an amazing photo, what a great physique. He looks bigger in the photo on the right, but that photo on the left is so badass. Also, that exercise 6 is pretty common for people who do kettlebell stuff, therefore with a kettlebell instead of dumbbell, and windmills I think they call them.
The"Tiger Bend" clip, is how to do a cheat TB, the correct way is to press straight up, not rock forward and then press up. Klein's favorite exercise equipment was "The Roman Column," that today is considered too dangerous for public gyms, because it was easy to get hurt. Klein had the last known publicly available "Roman Column" in his NYC gym, but in the early 1960s, it was converted to a Lat Machine, to avoid law suits.
Cool workout! The muscle you are describing in the back of your obliques is your quadratus lumborum. Definitely a muscle that needs to be engaged in your modern society because we sit so much.
The 'windmill ' press was very common back in that era. Only the practitioners of these archaic movements ,and some wrestlers dabbling in these obscure methods , still perform them today. The best way to perform this , I found it, is with a KB. Starting it off as a clean n press motion. Then proceeding with the windmill execution, while stiff arm'd holding the KB right above. Gets intense when you hit the 40, 50+pnd realm. The true advanced method is with a loaded BB. That requires ample space , bit of coordination and true strength. The challenge here is that the bar rotates around once it's pressed stiff.. You'll know what I mean when you try it.
Pretty cool stuff thanks for sharing. My high school coach taught us progressive overload. We progressed towards a new max each month and started each new month from there. I didnt know thats what it was called but it worked amazingly for strength. As a seniour I weighed 170lbs benched 305lbs and could leg press 1040lbs 8 times easily. I dont remember my squat max back then but it was hefty as well. I always got compliments on my legs but I was also heavy into Taekwondo then as well. Also we used narrow grip reverse curls to develop forearms it worked amazingly.
5:45 i actually have been doing this for years now. started at home with kettlebells, now i do it at the gym, most recently with a 70 lb dumbbell. i think it does get some strange looks...
Some of those exercices looks like a meme tiktok exercice from an enhanced influencer, the last ones were closer to a grandma swinging her pink dumbells at home tho. It's like every exercice was pick randomly in the entire fitness realm, i love it.
I still do Leg Curls similar to this, I use a 35 kg dumbbell instead. Gym is very far from my home, so I workout in my home. I also used to do Bench Presses on floor while using two chairs as a rack. Now I custom made a rack and a wooden bench so I don't have to do all those stuffs.
I recently graduated to weighted pistol squats ( holding a ten) and it's surprisingly easier. The increased load is offset by the change in center of mass.
I forgot to say Thanks for uploading these fascinating videos. Ah, Steve Reeves is my favorite, Cecil B. Mille was wrong He could of been Samson he proved it on the 2 Hercules movies he did too bad none of the body builders played zeus. I'm a bit of a history nerd and this would be under my category of Miscellaneous History. Doesn't make it less important this makes history for me Fun! I used too lift weights after a exercise class started out with weights that were 10 lbs I think I did that one for 2 week's then bravely tackled 20 lbs weight's. I'd lift the weight to no.10 did the 10lbs. For 2 weeks. Then i attempted the 30 lbs did too no. 10 (I was a bit more cautious my mom let me know that hernias run in the family and I was born with a hernia) so that's why I only did each weight up too 10. I wanted to be healthy not stupid. Before i moved from my birth State I was on 60 lbs and woulda started 70 lbs and when I moved to the New State, I wasn't able too get in a good decent exercise program. I know if I take up weight lifting now I'd have to begin with the 10 lbs and then continue my way up I was so happy that I nearly reached 70 lbs.
Exercise 6 is very similar to the kettle bell windmill maybe an older variation of it cause it's touching the opposite toe. Just tried and it's much more difficult even with a wider stance.🤣
I started doing the bench press with just a box with both my legs and head off of it and let me tell you, I had a neck pump from benching. 100% would recommend
Exercise number 6 is somewhat common in the kettlebell world. It's called Overhead Windmill, and you're doing one of the variations where you bend over to the front, the other and more common one being bending to the side. Despite its looks the main target of this exercise is the shoulder joint and its stabilizers. The objective is to maintain the weight directly over the shoulder vertically, so you must use a weight heavy enough that penalizes any deviation from the vertical (you are doing it somewhat wrong, but hey, not hating). It's excellent for shoulder health, but is useless for hypertrophy.
I don't think so I started with 16kg and now do it with 20kg It give a me a very strong belly or upper body ? Do 10-20 left and right in a row and you see how much strength you got to have to do it 24kg and more will do it even more 😄👍 Windmill ist eine der besten Übungen überhaupt 👍
If you hold a staggered stance, and also keep your lower arm in line with the leg on the same side (instead of the leg on the opposite side), you will probably get a better feel of the windmill exercise (exercise 7).
Another interesting thing I've tried is a "compensatory acceleration" technique with dumbbells. You quite literally throw and catch the bells, the added force needed to get them airborne and slow them back down makes them "heavier" than they actually are. So for lateral delt raises you'd swing your arm up fast enough that you can let go of the bell at the top and it will "hover" there for a blink. Then you grab the handle again and have to decelerate the bell on the way down to keep it from smashing your thigh. Obviously you do this one side at a time. It can be applied to other lifts as well. I've even heard of people doing it with the bench press.
That is some cool staff ! I can do a couple of clumsy pistol squats, when holding kettlebell with my both hands in front of me, using it as a counter-balance. Or just do it the similar way you did...
I did a bunch of pistol squats back in the day, managed a Pr of 70 pounds for one rep. it takes a lot of brute strength, but the hard part for me was always keeping my other leg straight out in front
@@NattyLifeYT I'm a bit late to the party. Did it with a 10lb dumbbell for 15 reps per side. I'm not exactly sore but the exercise felt really awkward to me. Maybe I wasn't doing it right, but I'll give it another go sometime
I love this history and time period very much, thank you Natty for making these videos and I have to say you definitely look like josh hartnett, just saying bro, but keep up the good work on these videos I definitely like the part you show us all these workouts
Awesome content and channel appreciate all the vintage greats of physical culture who in my opinion had much better physiques then these juiced up monsters in the modern era
I love your videos as always and you are outstanding in the fitness field , the only thing i dont like in the videos is how slow you talk it makes the video very slow Thank you for the content
Thanks, that’s fair. CZcams allows you to speed up the video 25% or 50%, it might make the videos more enjoyable for you. I don’t usually speak this slow, but for whatever reason when I’m reading a script I need to go super slow otherwise I stutter and don’t speak very clearly 🫤
Siggy,the man who drooled all over his table for The Monarch of Body-building Edit: The obliques barbell one is really clever and I'll honestly try to fit it in my abs day!
Hell yeah I can do proper weighted pistol squats! Used them as a main leg exercise when I didn't have access to a gym. I've done them in all kinds of fashions. Holding some weights down to the sides like a deadlift. With people sitting on my shoulders. In a back squat position with a barbell. In a front squat position with a barbell. In a front squat position with dumbbells. At some point, I could do a pistol on each leg with a 130 lbs person on my shoulders! And with assistance, similar to how you did in that video, I used to do sets with a 160 lbs friend sitting on my shoulders.
It would be amazing if there could be like a site or archive where all of these old school excercises of all different strongmen were listed together, idk if it's very many tho 😂
I can't imagine anyone accomplishing the pistol squat any other way than how you do it. Obviously Sigmund was a true superman as some of these exercises are far more of an acrobat's feat of strength than an actual practical conditioning exercise requiring an exercise to condition us to the degree we can actually do it. Exercise number 5 looks similar to the Continuous Pull-up and Press from Bob Hoffman's York Training Systems..
ive been following natural bodybuilders and I am one myself for 45 years...They never really bulked the way we do today...Reeves himeself said he hated gaining excess fat and that it had to be real muscle every year....this is a huge key!!
I guess the difference is for us noble nattys, we'll put on fat much faster than muscle. These days most guys on gear will build lean tissue super fast and also burn fat real easy once they alter their cycle and go into a deficit.
The tiger bend exercise looks a lot like sher dand, which is one of the old school Indian wrestler exercises. Coincidentally sher means tiger in Hindi.
Zercher squats are so much easier to perform compared to Steinborn squats (without requiring a rack). You can deadlift the weight, set it on your legs at the bottom of the squat position and go from there.
Old School Bodybuilding playlist: czcams.com/play/PLK7oVKkif-qXRDEob5MKbaT0KEZRe9niu.html
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Exercise 1
01:58 - Exercise 2
02:50 - Exercise 3
03:36 - Exercise 4
04:16 - Exercise 5
04:48 - Exercise 6
05:49 - Exercise 7
06:29 - Exercise 8
07:14 - Exercise 9
08:25 - Exercise 10
08:58 - Exercise 11
09:35 - Exercise 12
10:20 - Exercise 13
10:59 - Exercise 14
12:13 - Special Exercises
13:27 - Conclusion
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@natty life as per exercise 6 you can find a similar, modern kettlebell exercise in Pavel Tsatsouline "More kettlebell challenges" named as traditional bent press (that adds a squat, not a straight leg movement at the end af the lift)
Hey bro nice videos u make..btw u can get clean muscle without gaining fat if u cycle ketogenic diet as u train for example 3 weeks strict keto then 1week u do carbs with meals and than again 3weeks keto and so on and if u do intermittent fasting ,although it will be much slower bcs anabolic response from insulin to fat and protein is lower when compared to carbs ,..i do bodyweight workout for 9+ years and i cycled keto for first 7 years and gained 9kg of lean muscle,for last two years i started doing weighted calisthenics (30kg vest) and stopped keto cycle now i eat carbs every day(with dinner mostly and not over 150g) and in last two years gained 5kg ,but most of that 5kg is fat and water weight maybe 1 or 2 kg is muscle ..my point is clean muscle is very slow to gain but possible ,u get bigger faster with carb bcs carbs tank ur glycogen stores ( in muscle and liver ) so u gain mass but not clean muscle ..there r people who can eat load of carbs and still look jacked without gaining to much fat ( mostly ectomorphs and mesomorphs body type) but generaly consuming carbs frequently ( 3- 4 x day) over time will get u fat
If I've learned anything from these old timey dudes who got jacked doing "sub-optimal" programs with janky equipment, it's the hard work and consistency are by far the most important factors in muscle gain. haha
Definitely.
Facts! 💪
That and nutrition
To me that points to genetics. I'm sure we all know a guy that either never went to the gym or is very inconsistent but is still more muscular than a lot of people
Fitness culture and influencers have a problem: How can one make money from my physique when the the 99% percent factors in building muscle are consistency, lifting heavy, eating and sleeping well.
It's not a special exercise routine, a special protein or eating testicles. No wonder so many of them blast PED's and then say it was their product, its the only way it can be monetised.
The wisdom at the end is just amazing. "Make moderation in all things your motto. Don't become a slave to barbells or physical culture." These are words to live by, not only for lifters, but for anyone who is prone to obsession and extremes. Thank you for sharing man, looking forward to learning more.
I need to work a lot on this.
I'm obsessive but if not for that I couldn't have stuck with it for over 45 years. I have learned to ease up though. When young I would do 3 hour workouts 6 days a week.
You can be great or you can be moderate you cannot be both at once, I don't know anyone who has stuck with good training for better than 20 years who wasn't obsessed with their health.
"Seek the middle" has become like a religious mantra in our time, and I don't buy it, granted you should know when to rest and take a break now and then, but all too often I see such thinking used to excuse mediocrity.
I KNEW HIM!! He used to go to the Hudson Health Club on the West Side in NYC. He was the nicest guy you can imagine; a real gentleman. I took the bus with him up Broadway.. he told me he had a collection of fancy Beer Mugs at home; I'll bet this was a nice collection. At the health club he did some amazing one handed lifts balancing the large barbell with his hand in the middle. no one else could do this. He was a real "Man's Man" a good person and highly intelligent.
That's so cool, thank you for sharing! By the way you can find photos of his beer mug collection online.
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@@gerhardschelbi9939 YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY SO JEALOUS OF SIEGMAN KEILN BECAUSE YOU CAN'T EVEN LIFT BARBELL WEIGHT🏋 WITH ONE HAND 🖐 AND HE CAN!
@petetestube2904 CZcams is full of these kinds of comments. the commenter never has any videos. It would be great if CZcams would let you search a user's comments. Every time I see a comment like this it's the same. "Oh yeah I was lead designer on that project, blah blah". "My brother was in that unit, blah blah". Sure. I'll bet each of these mugs make all kinds of pointless claims and jerks off to the likes or something
Thanks for sharing. He was grandpa's cousin, and my grandpa was a very nice person too.
These men were genuine and real body builders.
The muscle that you felt get sore in the "oblique" exercise was probably the quadratus lumborum, a very deep low back muscle that is active in lumbar sidebending and extension.
Ah yes, could definitely be that.
Shut up man, just shut up!
Sigmund Klein's personal record was 19 tiger bends in a row! I think that nobody was able to beat this record yet! Just to show, how difficult even one tiger bend is, I must say that I could never do even one rep even though my personal record at wall handstand push ups was 12.
Great job on the demonstrations bro! Proves that building a great physique doesn't require a lot of advanced principles, just hammering basic fundamentals over time 💪
Absolutely right. Thank you my friend
I don't know how this basic principle got lost. Well, I do... it was the publishing of magazines like Weider's 'muscle & fitness' and all the drivel they had to fill it up with to keep people buying it. Stuart McRobert tried to turn the tide in the 80s/90s and published a good book called 'Brawn' which went back to the old tried and true methods of the 'bronze' and 'silver' era.
#6 is a variation of 'windmills', normal exercise mostly common among kettlebell users.
I started doing Exercise 6 and holy - does it feel good. You can literally feel your obliques stretching - definitely putting it in my exercise arsenal. Great content as always.
One of my new favorite channels. Your self deprecating humor mixed with your humility plus the solid content sets you apart from most other channels.
Thank you bro!
That Tiger bend is insane! I can do a handstand against a wall, but that's it! Though I always thought you had to be able to get a plumb straight body to do freestanding handstands or handstand push-ups, so it was interesting to see that's clearly not the case. My maternal grandmother apparently dragged one foot but could walk on her hands! So maybe I should try harder!
Sondre Berg has a channel with tons of handstand and other calistenic training videos.
I totally agree. I've been trainning handstand variations for some years. I can do free standing handstand holds for more than 30s and some reps of handstand pushups. However, I still can't do this tiger band variation... just for you to imagine how hard it is to achieve this movement... it not only requires strength, but also a lot of skill and technique to execute it.
Didnt see. A tiger bend
@@zeez3139 see exercise 14
Exercise 6 is used in kettlebell training, it's called "windmill". Exercise 8, pistols, is also done in KB training.
I love all the bronze era stuff the exercises are interesting- I'd like to see more about their diet!
REALLY!?
I'm glad you covered the curl first, as it is the most important exercise in any body building program. What I like about these exercises (and I think the lesson to be taken away) is that they used compound movements to build mass. Even suboptimal versions of them clearly are able to build amazing size. Great video as always keep them coming man!
Thank you brother 💪
Curl the most important? Sarcasm?
@@jessegarris7037 Yeah more or less. However if bigger biceps were your goal then I’d argue it’s not. But yes I know curls are not the important exercise for virtually every other purpose
Sigmund Klein was my grandpa's cousin...thanks for doing this!
The Tiger's Bend was the coolest one to watch of all these exercises, and I appreciate you including your attempt, too! Learning that Klein was around my size (I am currently 145lbs, very short) makes me feel very inspired! Also, I have done something similar to the 7th exercise in your vid, the barbell triceps exercise done behind your body. But I have done it with a typical double-overhand grip on the bar, just having it behind me, and I bend at the hips to create a bit more ROM. I really feel this in my lats and rear delts, like going beyond the end ROM of a cable lat-pullover. I jokingly call them "Naruto Runs," because the end ROM at the top creates that position lol so far, I can only use 55lbs on it before my form suffers and I start "kipping."
I’m a Calisthenics athlete and handstands are my bread and butter. The tiger bend push up took some time…cool thing is, there are many progressions or regressions to build up to the handstand. Pike push-ups, Hindu push-ups , deep decline push-ups. You need to utilise your finger strength to control your balance in the handstand,,,this will also protect your wrist for hyper extending during handstand push-ups against the wall. Parallel bars or paralettes will help a lot in making that mind muscle connection to controlling your body to stay upright. Also for tiger bend you will need to be able to do deep handstand push-ups so if using the wall for balance, use paralette bars or even two chairs to place your hands onto to get deeper.
Yes , I had forgotten about the "windmills" which I used to do with the kettlebell. I like the look of the tricep exercise and will definitely give that a go next arm day. thank you for all your hard work putting this together
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Love these videos. Great mix of old photos of the legends and good demonstrations
Thank you!
Excercise #6 is a somewhat common exercise among kettlebells enthusiasts. They call it the windmill. And I find it’s actually much more comfy to do it with a kettlebell
The similar variation I came up thinking was the bent press, but yes the windmill is the identical kettlebell transposition
Exercise 6 is a well-known exercise within kettlebells called the windmill. You got the twist down quite well! Try to keep your arm straight while bending 😃
These old school bodybuilders are awsome. Good channel. Keep up the good work.
Great video! I love seeing these older workouts.
Loved this! I recently started going to the gym and one of my current goals is to build a body but also capabilities based on a similar training from the bronze and silver era of bodybuilding, i think that some things were amazing back then. Thanks for making this video, it was really interesting!
I appreciate that you demonstrate the lifts. You put a lot of effort into your videos and it shows!
I love that brick wall, it would make a great background for live stream talk shows.
One of these really seemed injury inducing and I feel invested in your growth after watching you for so long, found myself crying out "no bro no!" Lol
Really love what you’re doing man. Bodybuilding is about health and wellness! Keep going!
4:48 is called the windmill. It's still popular amongst kettlebell athletes. Check out Lebe Stark Kettlebell windmill tutorial.
He actually did a video which you'll be interested in. He goes into the history of kettlebell.
LebeStark is a very good channel 👍
hey bro, if you want to do handstand pushups for size you should face your stomach against the wall. This way you can regulate difficulty (by leaning) while eliminating technical demands (no balance)
You motivated me for doing natural bodybuilding thank you bro and at last please make a video for home workout by doing with no equipment
His body mechanics proficiency in muscle strength and development way back-when, are an amazing time capsule...Good health to you!
the fifth exercise you demonstrated,
That was part of the yolk training program with barbells and dumbbells set I had when I was 18
Interesting video. Some of the exercises I’ve never seen before and some others have survived and are still being done today.
at 1:19 the photo on the left is an amazing photo, what a great physique. He looks bigger in the photo on the right, but that photo on the left is so badass.
Also, that exercise 6 is pretty common for people who do kettlebell stuff, therefore with a kettlebell instead of dumbbell, and windmills I think they call them.
Old school body builders rock!!
Wow! This has been an awesome video. Hard work and lots of research done there. Thanks. 👍💪
The"Tiger Bend" clip, is how to do a cheat TB, the correct way is to press straight up, not rock forward and then press up.
Klein's favorite exercise equipment was "The Roman Column," that today is considered too dangerous for public gyms, because it was easy to get hurt.
Klein had the last known publicly available "Roman Column" in his NYC gym, but in the early 1960s, it was converted to a Lat Machine, to avoid law suits.
Great video. Very informative. Thanks for sharing it with us.
The advice at the end... beautiful👌
Bro I'm gonna try a few of these exercises some of them look so fun to do 🤩
Go for it!
Cool workout! The muscle you are describing in the back of your obliques is your quadratus lumborum. Definitely a muscle that needs to be engaged in your modern society because we sit so much.
The 'windmill ' press was very common back in that era. Only the practitioners of these archaic movements ,and some
wrestlers dabbling in these obscure methods , still perform them today.
The best way to perform this , I found it, is with a KB.
Starting it off as a clean n press motion. Then proceeding with the windmill execution, while stiff arm'd holding the KB right above.
Gets intense when you hit the 40, 50+pnd realm.
The true advanced method is with a loaded BB.
That requires ample space , bit of coordination and true strength.
The challenge here is that the bar rotates around once it's pressed stiff..
You'll know what I mean when you try it.
i;m some what new to your channel, but i;ve truly enjoyed all your content so far! keep up the good work!
Thanks bro! Welcome to the channel :)
Pretty cool stuff thanks for sharing. My high school coach taught us progressive overload. We progressed towards a new max each month and started each new month from there. I didnt know thats what it was called but it worked amazingly for strength. As a seniour I weighed 170lbs benched 305lbs and could leg press 1040lbs 8 times easily. I dont remember my squat max back then but it was hefty as well. I always got compliments on my legs but I was also heavy into Taekwondo then as well. Also we used narrow grip reverse curls to develop forearms it worked amazingly.
5:45 i actually have been doing this for years now. started at home with kettlebells, now i do it at the gym, most recently with a 70 lb dumbbell. i think it does get some strange looks...
Never seen exercise 7!! Great video, bro 🔥🔥
Thank you bro 💪
Great job. Thank you.
Some of those exercices looks like a meme tiktok exercice from an enhanced influencer, the last ones were closer to a grandma swinging her pink dumbells at home tho. It's like every exercice was pick randomly in the entire fitness realm, i love it.
I still do Leg Curls similar to this, I use a 35 kg dumbbell instead. Gym is very far from my home, so I workout in my home. I also used to do Bench Presses on floor while using two chairs as a rack. Now I custom made a rack and a wooden bench so I don't have to do all those stuffs.
I recently graduated to weighted pistol squats ( holding a ten) and it's surprisingly easier. The increased load is offset by the change in center of mass.
I forgot to say Thanks for uploading these fascinating videos. Ah, Steve Reeves is my favorite, Cecil B. Mille was wrong He could of been Samson he proved it on the 2 Hercules movies he did too bad none of the body builders played zeus.
I'm a bit of a history nerd and this would be under my category of Miscellaneous History. Doesn't make it less important this makes history for me Fun!
I used too lift weights after a exercise class started out with weights that were 10 lbs I think I did that one for 2 week's then bravely tackled 20 lbs weight's.
I'd lift the weight to no.10 did the 10lbs. For 2 weeks. Then i attempted the 30 lbs did too no. 10 (I was a bit more cautious my mom let me know that hernias run in the family and I was born with a hernia) so that's why I only did each weight up too 10. I wanted to be healthy not stupid.
Before i moved from my birth State I was on 60 lbs and woulda started 70 lbs and when I moved to the New State, I wasn't able too get in a good decent exercise program.
I know if I take up weight lifting now I'd have to begin with the 10 lbs and then continue my way up I was so happy that I nearly reached 70 lbs.
Exercise 6 is very similar to the kettle bell windmill maybe an older variation of it cause it's touching the opposite toe.
Just tried and it's much more difficult even with a wider stance.🤣
One of my favorites
I started doing the bench press with just a box with both my legs and head off of it and let me tell you, I had a neck pump from benching. 100% would recommend
Awesome video thank you! Please do more like this
cant wait for similar next video , keep it up bro
Thank you for this honest way to make those Kind of Video 👍
Exercise number 6 is somewhat common in the kettlebell world. It's called Overhead Windmill, and you're doing one of the variations where you bend over to the front, the other and more common one being bending to the side. Despite its looks the main target of this exercise is the shoulder joint and its stabilizers. The objective is to maintain the weight directly over the shoulder vertically, so you must use a weight heavy enough that penalizes any deviation from the vertical (you are doing it somewhat wrong, but hey, not hating). It's excellent for shoulder health, but is useless for hypertrophy.
I don't think so
I started with 16kg and now do it with 20kg
It give a me a very strong belly or upper body ?
Do 10-20 left and right in a row and you see how much strength you got to have to do it
24kg and more will do it even more 😄👍
Windmill ist eine der besten Übungen überhaupt 👍
Best body building era so far
If you hold a staggered stance, and also keep your lower arm in line with the leg on the same side (instead of the leg on the opposite side), you will probably get a better feel of the windmill exercise (exercise 7).
Another interesting thing I've tried is a "compensatory acceleration" technique with dumbbells. You quite literally throw and catch the bells, the added force needed to get them airborne and slow them back down makes them "heavier" than they actually are. So for lateral delt raises you'd swing your arm up fast enough that you can let go of the bell at the top and it will "hover" there for a blink. Then you grab the handle again and have to decelerate the bell on the way down to keep it from smashing your thigh. Obviously you do this one side at a time. It can be applied to other lifts as well. I've even heard of people doing it with the bench press.
Stunning! Thanks very much!
excellent video and some inspirational exercises to try
Very interesting! Thank you so much!👍🏽👍🏽💯💯
Quality content as usual!
That is some cool staff ! I can do a couple of clumsy pistol squats, when holding kettlebell with my both hands in front of me, using it as a counter-balance. Or just do it the similar way you did...
Consistency and hard work
I did a bunch of pistol squats back in the day, managed a Pr of 70 pounds for one rep. it takes a lot of brute strength, but the hard part for me was always keeping my other leg straight out in front
Damn that is a lot for pistol squats. They are a hell of a grind and it is no surprise they are underrated.
I think I'll try that oblique exercise today. It looks really unique and I could use some DOMS right now
Let us know how it goes. I’m legit still a bit sore 5 days later…
@@NattyLifeYT I'm a bit late to the party. Did it with a 10lb dumbbell for 15 reps per side. I'm not exactly sore but the exercise felt really awkward to me. Maybe I wasn't doing it right, but I'll give it another go sometime
Good video! Please keep making them!
#6 is a variation of the windmill, a common exercise in kettlebell training.
I love this history and time period very much, thank you Natty for making these videos and I have to say you definitely look like josh hartnett, just saying bro, but keep up the good work on these videos I definitely like the part you show us all these workouts
Awesome content and channel appreciate all the vintage greats of physical culture who in my opinion had much better physiques then these juiced up monsters in the modern era
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!Joseph!
I love your videos as always and you are outstanding in the fitness field , the only thing i dont like in the videos is how slow you talk it makes the video very slow
Thank you for the content
Thanks, that’s fair. CZcams allows you to speed up the video 25% or 50%, it might make the videos more enjoyable for you. I don’t usually speak this slow, but for whatever reason when I’m reading a script I need to go super slow otherwise I stutter and don’t speak very clearly 🫤
That triceps exercise #7 is all cramp.. and effective.
Excellent video
definitely gonna do some of these!
Any idea what there diets were like?
For some reason I always imagine eggs redmeat butter and dairy buy not actually sure?
He was simply a different breed. How come a lot of what we consider great today is overshadowed by the greats of the distant past?
Siggy,the man who drooled all over his table for The Monarch of Body-building
Edit: The obliques barbell one is really clever and I'll honestly try to fit it in my abs day!
Hell yeah I can do proper weighted pistol squats! Used them as a main leg exercise when I didn't have access to a gym. I've done them in all kinds of fashions. Holding some weights down to the sides like a deadlift. With people sitting on my shoulders. In a back squat position with a barbell. In a front squat position with a barbell. In a front squat position with dumbbells. At some point, I could do a pistol on each leg with a 130 lbs person on my shoulders! And with assistance, similar to how you did in that video, I used to do sets with a 160 lbs friend sitting on my shoulders.
It would be amazing if there could be like a site or archive where all of these old school excercises of all different strongmen were listed together, idk if it's very many tho 😂
This old school low bench press is the best since it teaching bracing
Love your videos
4:49 This exercise is a Bent Press, Arthur Saxon still hold the world record on this by 168,283 Kg ( 371 Lbs).
The one at around 6 minutes, obliques, is called "windmill" and is a well known exercise for KB-nerds..
Really really cool
I can't imagine anyone accomplishing the pistol squat any other way than how you do it. Obviously Sigmund was a true superman as some of these exercises are far more of an acrobat's feat of strength than an actual practical conditioning exercise requiring an exercise to condition us to the degree we can actually do it. Exercise number 5 looks similar to the Continuous Pull-up and Press from Bob Hoffman's York Training Systems..
ive been following natural bodybuilders and I am one myself for 45 years...They never really bulked the way we do today...Reeves himeself said he hated gaining excess fat and that it had to be real muscle every year....this is a huge key!!
I guess the difference is for us noble nattys, we'll put on fat much faster than muscle. These days most guys on gear will build lean tissue super fast and also burn fat real easy once they alter their cycle and go into a deficit.
@@sampats89 exactly!!!
STEVE REEVES AS HIMSELF DEFINITELY NEVER USED STEROIDS IN HIS LIFE! NOTHING BUT PURE MUSCLES 💪 💪🏋!
@@jeanbaumgartner4052 yessss
Wow, that tiger bend is reserved for elite calisthenics athletes, even today.
The tiger bend exercise looks a lot like sher dand, which is one of the old school Indian wrestler exercises. Coincidentally sher means tiger in Hindi.
Zercher squats are so much easier to perform compared to Steinborn squats (without requiring a rack). You can deadlift the weight, set it on your legs at the bottom of the squat position and go from there.
*Teachable Moment🤔*
another gem!
Literally me
That high windmill for the obliques could also be hitting the quadratus lumborum.
I can attest that hand stand pushups or press-ups will give you very strong overhead press. I could do 160 kg overhead press-ups on a gym machine.