and not forget.....these Man had more Power than anybody else from todays Exerciser...they had enormous Strength............hard to find nowadays..............
Instead of doing neck curls with the band around your head bite it with your teeth. Better resistance and good for the jaw. Im up to 50 pounds now,neck is jacked.
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Hackenschmidt must have had the most insane stabilizers. It's absolutely insane, doing a leg press by balancing the bar on your feet. No wonder this guy was a top level wrestler.
Used to be pretty common. It's even in the old York barbell courses. Once the weight is enough that it sinks into your foot a bit it's not super hard to keep it there. It is still a bit wonky though.
@@zibtihaj3213 they do, if you train for that discipline. Strength training is required to be stronger, specific training is then required to use that strength to power finer movements. It's not that fucking hard, stop coping because you are small and weak. Skill won't make you beat a 100 pound lean mass advantage on somebody that has a mild idea of what you plan on doing. Your efforts will just slam into a wall and your margin of error is infinitesimal. There's a reason herbivores evolve to be fucking massive, size and strength advantage tend to make you unassailable from smaller specimens.
@@RagingRugbyst First you are completely misinterpretation what I said... second I am anything but weak... and lastly you have so many holes in what you said, I dont know where to start. Anyway peace !
What impressed me the most is how well-spoken and smart his writing was, he clearly wasn't a "meat-head" but a learned athlete and intellectual which I think more gym-bros should strive to be.
How people are saying these guys are small/unimpressive is beyond me. They look jacked af and 99% of the population would be beyond happy if they had a physique like those.
@@willbournerv2259 yea I absolutely abhor the freakishly massive roided bods The shredded muscular build is just seems so much more desirable and an all around art form to me
I learned in his book that today men are taught to shovel as much food in their mouths as possible and lift for two hours a day to get big and strong. Hackenshmidt and his colleague Arthur Saxon had a completely different idealogy. They taught that looking after every aspect of mental and physical health made you better and stronger. He emphasized not only sleeping well, but taking care of your own skin by not wearing tight clothes, exposing your skin to the sun everyday for a given time, keeping your bed chambers clean because you spend most of your life in there, and much more things that are never brought up when trying to get physically strong. Simply fascinating
What's so bad about wearing tight clothes? Not that I wear it. I find it very uncomfortable. However, I do wear tight clothing when it gets cold in the winters here in Canada
Hackenschmidt’s advice about not expecting too much from light weight, high repetition training, is a not so subtle dig at Sandow’s light dumbell system, which was popular at the time.
@@alexandrebeaudry1038 they are light to start and many of the exercises are not as easy as they might seem. One can and should progress quickly to a weight which is challenging. Meanwhile I think Sandow's light dumbbell system was something like 5lb for most exercises. A bit funny considering Sandow clearly built his own physique by lifting very heavy.
@@alexandrebeaudry1038 Sandows light dumbell method was just a system to sell his range of spring dumbells. An early example of effective fitness marketing!! I believe there were three dumbells in the range. One for children, another for women and the massive 5lb bells for the men.
Can we acknowledge the fact that "Hack" built that physique without steroids and obviously was doing something right in that he lived just short of one hundred years, no modern "advanced" bodybuilders, strength competitors, or fitness stars are coming close to that these days. Just an opinion! By the way, love your channel and what your doing with your videos.
@@xenn4985 people offed themselves in WWII when they were told they were not medically fit to serve.... The shame was overwhelming and people questioned why able bodied men with the use of their legs were not fighting the Nazis or the Imperial Japanese....
Hackenshmidt is such an inspiration to me, he was massive, he was freakishly strong for the time period, he invented staple exercises , the bench press and the hack squat, and an original philosopher of training.
Their bodies are impressive as fuck, because body building wasn't advanced, there were too many misconceptions, about training, food and lifestyle. My father in 70's was 5''6 190 pounds, pure muscle, fast and strong. I read the book by which he was training. There was way too many things, that should prevent you from building muscle. The biggest one was, that you should intake not more, than 1-1.5 liter of LIQUID a day. (Not just water, all the liquid -coffee, tea, soup etc.) Of course now we know, how dangerous and extremely bad for muscles that is, since dehydrate body takes water from muscles.
idk back then men had more testosterone I'd say there were more strong men back then then there are now. But the asthetic potential is higher due to advancements in peds and bodybuilding science
@@JR-tg1lz I agree with that, people back then, had a higher potential. Because of better food, less plastic, cleaner water, air. On top of that in 50's - 60's, they didn't spend time indoors, all they were doing was outdoor sports and a lot of them started doing hard labour at age of 14, which helped gain good body foundation. I guess that's why my fathers skeleton is two times bigger, than average 25 year old.
@@AM-dl7otMost of that is true; however, good food was way more difficult to get, and was more expensive comparatively. You couldn’t easily stuff your face with protein rich food back then, like you can today.
Staying away from cell phones and radiation emitting towers, eating raw and unprocessed foods, a ton less water/light/air pollution, no modern medications, etc is a good indicator of one's life expectancy. People lived longer back then because of this.
14:10: Bear in mind that in Hackenschmidt's time, the leg press would usually be done while wearing dress shoes with raised heels -- allowing the barbell to be balanced easier on the feet. They also often sat the bar on two chairs & performed the exercise while lying on the floor between them.
But he ducked the indian champ the great gama which is very slimey for a top wrestler to do! But not only hackendshidmt did that American champ gotch ducked gama too!
those bronze era guys may be small in todays standards, but i guarantee you p4p they were stronger than many gym bros, especially their tendons Wouldn’t be surprised if many of them never got seriously injured
@@joshuamcateer255 if the wheels are big enough, as long as you dodge the plates, you won't get a bar to the face. and you could also dig a small hole and leg press out of that if you wanted to have an at-home set up
What I like the most about this is knowing just how inefficient and unpolished a lot of these exercises are, but seeing just how effective they ended up being because of his commitment. You hardly need anything to do these exercises, but you can still get great results if you're just persistent; likewise, seeing how easy it is for us to do more refined movements and use better equipment now, it really shouldn't unthinkable that a guy could get an impressive physique naturally as long as he's consistent.
Absolutely agree. However these guys might not look very massive or really jacked but they found the perfect balance between looking amazing and being healthy. In my opinion I think that this trainingstyle will get more attention by time leading the unhealthy bodybuilding style were having today to die out.
@@youlaughyouphill842 the lower test doesnt make as much of a difference as you think it does. you just need the commitment they had and youll 100% achieve better results due to how much bodybuilding has progressed. just look at the popular natty lifters on youtube like alpha destiny, verity schofield, natural hypertrophy etc.
@@BeGrizzlyStrong yeah, a lot of “efficiency” is lost in today’s “efficient” exercises because they attempt to target a single muscle, ignoring many of the smaller stabilizing muscles
WTF who says these old school guys were small? They were huge given they didnt have multiple gyms to choose from, a GNC around the corner, educational material at all to tell them how to get big, etc. This is insane. They had to have basically trained in a super natural way and guess as to what nutrition to go towards, how to train and everything. Amazing to me that they did any of this.
Bro it is by no meanings so insane. Humans were all strong back then because all works since we hunted included physicality. Have you even meet a farmer? And I mean a farmer that makes everything himself. Before industralization the common Joe had to be strong.
I have been a bodybuilder for 67 years and haven't known some of thouse very interesting exercises. I'm now 82 still working out. This is very interesting. Thanks !
I can’t recommend the book enough. It’s my favorite health and fitness book ever. He even goes into Olympic weightlifting exercises not mentioned in this video.
Did some of these exercises when I started lifting in the 60’s as Hack, was still living and still of legendary strength. The floor presses were painful at bottom, the leg presse (obviously) quite dangerous as were "thumbless" bench presses. Look closer at foot position in diagrams; split clean and "splot" (feet out) in some cases. I vaguely remember a pic of him "floor pressing" well over 400 in his 80’s I think. Thanks for reminding me of those painful hack squats . Lol
Imagine looking at these guys who were absolutely cut and well defined back before tren and hormone therapy was a thing and thinking "oh damn they're so tiny lol"
It's not said in the video, but it's worth mentioning that Hackenschmidt is also usually credited as the originator of the bench press. This is probably why he had such a huge chest!
The origin of the bench press seems to be contested between 2-3 other lifters in the 20th century, but Hackenschmidt originated the floor press. It was popular in his time to do a back bridge on your neck & then press a barbell. Mr Hackenschmidt realised you could press substantially more weight lying flat on the floor.
In comparison between these exercises and modern machine equivalents, I believe you are missing one important distinction. Hackenschmidt's exercises have a very large stability component to them. Modern machinery takes all that stability work away essentially holding the weight in the range of motion for you. From my own experience, stability challenges greatly increase overall intensity of any given exercise. Looking at these exercises, I couldn't help but compare them to basic gymnastics moves. The more I look the more I am convinced that gymnastics is probably the inspiration for much of these exercises, just tweaked so that they can be externally loaded. Try this for yourself. Try doing a weighted barbell lung. then try doing that same weight in a lateral lung. The difference is astonishing.
Stability is actually better for muscle growth than instability. Machines are actually superior for muscle growth if you use them properly. The instability makes it harder to reach the minimum viable stimulus. Still it's good to do the unstable exercises for the motor skills.
@@Arkhs From the point of view of pure targeted muscle fiber exhaustion, this is true. However, exhaustion and intensity are two very different things. Contractile strength is much higher in unstable situations than in stabilized. The reason why machines have been developed to stabilize the joints is so that bodybuilders can preserve more of their endurance for intensity leaving them with more work volume in reserve to specifically target other muscle fibers. This leads to very complex exercise programs that bodybuilders are famous for . Strength athletes have no business touching such overly complex programs and should focus more on stability challenging exercises. What works best for size is arguable, as isolation heavy bodybuilding workouts were specifically designed to take advantage of the benefits steroids provide. Intensity is far more beneficial to a natural lifter.
@@joeldoxtator9804 Volume is the primary driver of hypertrophy regardless of steroid use. Utilizing rep ranges of between ~6-30 taken to muscular failure (or just short of it). I used to think the primary driver was frequency but high training frequency is what allows the higher volume. Which is especially true for natural athletes. Minimum 10 working sets/wk and up to 20/25 sets. This is the answer according to modern science.
@@ohurley11 volume over the week does not equate to volume over the same workout or even volume over the same exercise. We are talking about vastly different training stimulus.
Having been studying and using old time training methods and lifts for a good while now, its really amazing to see more and more people getting intereseted in this stuff. It's all part of the NATTY RENAISSANCE
100% of all those people saying those guys looked small and tiny are people who are delusional about what a good body looks like and probably cant get a girlfriend because they want to be big and dont realize that women mostly prefer men who leaner and fit and not jacked monsters.
the fact that this dude was accurately talking about the differences between strength, endurance, and hypertrophy training *literally over 100 years ago* (!!!) is absolutely mind-boggling, what a legend strong, huge, intelligent, influential, and lived a long life... hackenschmidt is such an inspiration man
Probably the #1 thing that people ignore about the bodybuilders of yesteryear: Flexibility. Some of these moves in the video really cannot be performed properly if you have stiff hamstrings for example. And I bet bunch of modern bodybuilding exercises have systematically gotten rid of the moves that are super good, but require flexibility.
Lol what nutrition? What knowledge? Doing 8-12 reps? Doing a 5 day Split? Yeah truly an invention of rocket scientists. And what equipment? Bro we have ALL the knowledge and technology right at our fingertipps and still 99,999% of all gym rats look like they have never even touched weights in their life. Wake up please.
Todays nutrition is pure trash, most of our food has 1/10th the nutrient density of the food back then, thanks to modern agriculture and food processing, not to mention massive drop in avg test levels of men from then to now. So without roids, he would probably be weaker and smaller today.
@Pharaoh Yx stop with that nonsense that's what you fed to believe in giving up and not pushing yourself and asking for trt off your doctor when you barley out your teens
My father lifted weights when he was in his early twenties and had a book by Bob Hoffman on weight training and had pictures of the old-time weight lifters . needless to say, it was inspiring to me as a young boy and set the stage of a lifetime of weight training which a cornucopia of health benefits was derived.
I´ve also spent some time experimenting with old-timey techniques; some are surprisingly effective, if often mechanically difficult, while others are just impractical or simply unsound. The idea of repeat sets seems to have eluded many of them, with sometimes insane (100-120) rep limits per single set. Hackenschmidt´s techniques seem like the closest to today´s protocols, but you can still see the primitive understanding of body mechanics that underpinned many of the exercises.
How tf do some ppl hate on these old era bodybuilders bruh they looked the way they looked without taking enhancers tht deserves mad respect cause compared to a normal male physique who doesn't train tht is pretty big
I think the main reason he was so big is due to the fact in every single exercise he did, or at least as was portrayed in this video, he had to seriously stabilize his entire body which means more muscle gets involved during any one lift than might otherwise happen with more modern training methods and equiptment. Picture a dip vs a tricep extension for instance or a pull/chinup vs a dumbbell/barbell curl. Hell, just doing a kettlebell front hold into a squat is one helluva of shoulder, core and leg workout that fries stability muscles.
@@roarbertbearatheon8565 I disagree. Old school had less sets per exercise (usually one only) but weekly frequency was extremely high. The single set kept the intensity fairly high but the cardio was insane since you rest just to set up the next exercise and some need very small preparation.
I find it funny how his existence laughs in the face of people thinking anyone doing a moderately cardiovascular focused sport (cardio kills all of your gains) can't put on size without PEDs.
What a generation we live in. Everyone’s complaining about bodybuilders back than being too small but as soon as someone looks even the tiniest bit blown up you all immediately yell roids and start tearing apart body builders make up your minds lol
Another great bronze age video. The original hack squat is an eye opener as I don't have a hack/leg-press machine. You should do more videos on these important compound movements like they used to do (or do today) for those who don't have the necessary equipment. As for the barbell leg press, I think I'll pass lolll. (lever arm leg press seem like a good alternative)
No, it's not. Georg Hackenschmidt was a "once in a generation" kind of athlete. You're not going to get the results he got doing what he did. You can get better results today doing compound lifts and eating a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight.
Another important point about this man: the dude lived to be 90. NINETY Meanwhile our modern-day "legends" are struggling to walk unassisted by age 50.
This was a real bodybuilding athlete, totally overlooked today. The bronze era bodybuilders are favourites of mine up to the era of Frank Zane after which bodybuilding today represents something totally different.
I've been training 45 years. We did a lot of these exercises back when I started, when there weren't a lot of machines to distract us. We did things like Zottman curls as well which almost Nobody does today.
The bronze era guys looked like they were healthy, performant, athletes. Greek statues. The body builders of today look like a bad hulk facsimile. Also Mr. Hackenschmidt was highly, highly educated. I think the dude spoke 5 or 6 languages.
So glad to see this vid. I started my fitness journey 50yrs ago and have stuck with it. I noticed in my 30's the new generations coming up were leaving the grassroots and wanting their 15sec of fame trying to "pioneer" new things, but there is "no new thing under the sun" want to start out with isolated movements instead of spending the first year doing tried and true compound exercises looking for short cuts. I used to explain it to my students this way, "when building a house you don't build the roof first you build a good strong foundation first", hence you start building your own foundation with compound movements.
One thing I really like in this video about Hackenschmidt, is the implementation of his exercises. This was before gyms so he got creative and really aimed at isolating the muscles in the muscle groups he wanted to build. Absolutely impressive and it showed why he gained such a physique. He refined his exercises to gain the most potentially useful gains from them. Clearly he was a pioneering genius in bodybuilding
Hermann Goerner was another bronze era guy that was massive weighing around 120kg with shoulders as broad as 2 men. Arthur Saxon was also fairly large although not massive at 5'10 and about 90kg
I’m pretty new to the channel, and while I have forgotten a lot of my strength exercises, I must say this video is totally fascinating. Thank you for clearly demonstrating what was shown in the book. I would love to see more like this.
The crazy part is how functional his muscles would be in general. His body could maintain hard labor for an extended period of time from what i'm seeing.
a tip about neck exercises: it is not advised by chripractors to do full 360 rotations, instead, rotate one way until your head is almost fully leaning back, but still a little to the side, and then reverse and go the other way, so you will be doing about 340 degree rotations. rotating over completely in the back is bad for your neck vertebrae. it can cause issues especially if you already have tense muscles from stress or bad posture, or low amounts of cartilege in between the vertebrae. also, a criminally underrated exercise for gaining around the neck is swimming. i picked up swimming a few days a week a few years ago. after a year my neck was as big as my head. and i have a big head. oh and PS: your situps look awful. use a counterweight on your legs, keep your back straight and keep tension on the abdomen, you will get back issues doing it like this and youre not using your abs at all
These bronze era guys had great natural physiques. Great content, it's good to see someone making good natural body building content in this era of instagram and steroids
Funnily enough in the book Hackenschmidt says that food is of secondary importance. He has seen impressive athletes with all sorts of diets. He just says to try and find a diet that works for you and avoid foods that don't make you feel good. Though I suppose they didn't have processed food back in the day so it was probably a bit easier to eat healthy.
@@NattyLifeYT I have his book. Hack, clearly states and was well known at the time, from journals of other top wrestlers, that Hack grew on raw meats and dairy. Yes, you heard right, Raw. Hack, became a vegetarian, after he retired. Hack was eating raw meat, drinking raw eggs and drank up to 3L of raw milk daily, he had lots of raw fats, like raw butter, together with his meat meals. Arnold also grew up on raw dairy products and raw milk. He ate raw meat and eggs too, but started consuming mostly cooked meats, once he went to US. He started taking steroids at 15. And 4 years ago, started promoting the vegan diet, in the vegan Netflix documentary "Game Changers", Schwarzenegger was always been a tool for the elites, promoting their propoganda.
@@asgardcreator3132 I changed to a paleo diet - only natural foods like meat, milk, eggs, fish, etc and stopped processed foods and dropped from 139kg to 101kg
It's true about the supinated overhead press because I train it specifically, even while I don't ever lock out my elbows, and I do it for a few reasons but it definitely makes certain things in life a lot easier, especially when you were working with things above your midsection, you definitely want to overload the supination aspect long before you pronate to avoid shoulder injuries. Anybody that has shoulder pains even when putting dishes away in the cupboard can benefit from supinated pressing through the lats shoulders and biceps
This video is excellent. People need these neck exercises since everyone is always using devices. They get neck pain. Even though I am a female, I will do these exercises for my toning routine. Thank you for demonstrating these exercises. I enjoyed watching them.😉
I started lifting weights in 1982 and most of those exercises where still in use. In fact I did leg presses that exact same way. It was not common to see a power rack or squat rack in every gym and almost no one owned one at home. You either did leg presses like that or you did the Jefferson Squat, Hack Squat, clean and front squat or clean press and back squat or you had to have fantastic collars and lever the bar into position on your back! So you seldom could do enough weight on squat to truly challenge your legs like you can today. Now by 1986 I was old enough that I could go to the gym if my mom or dad signed me in and that was a entirely new world. They had Nautilus machines, heavy duty bench's, Universal Machines, Power Racks, Squat Racks even industrial treadmill. Mind you this was at an Army Field House the treadmills where $15,000 each and they only had 2 in a gym the size of 2 Super Walmarts. Some of the earliest Universal Gym's did not have a leg press station you put your feet on the inward facing rooler handle of the bench press station. This is when the bench press handles went inwards before they switched them to outward and added a leg press station. I lived through the development and multiple generations of Nautalis, Cybex, Hammer Strength, Atlas, and many more. The weight rooms looked like dungeons full of chalk and the machine rooms looked like Car Dealership with plants and no chalk at all!
The big takeaway for me here is neck training. I'm definitely putting some neck curls into my routine, who cares if I look silly, I'll be the one laughing when my neck looks like a pillar 😝
It might not be a standard bodybuilding exercise, but athletes do it. I have seen rugby players training neck at my gym. It's certainly an underdeveloped muscle for most of us.
When I played football in high school we did a lot of neck training. As a lineman, I noticed it made a difference when it came to blocking and tackling.
I developed a large neck, traps, and shoulders with standard shrugs. I was younger than i am now. But i put on 50lbs of muscle in 3 months. Completely natty. Just ate everything i could get my hands on and trained like a Beast.
The "hack squat" is NOT named after George Hackenschmidt--the original name of the exercise was the "hacke" lift ("hacke" means "heel" in German). It was a common lift in Hackenschmidt's day.
@@trailmix4845 Some gyms have a vertical leg press machine but it has phased out of popularity. Though, every now and then I seen it done on a smith machine. I agree it can be dangerous so a regular leg press machine would be the best option.
It's funny how some people say they are not impressive and small (a lot of them were average height/slightly above for their time) but Chinese olympic weightlifters from 60 to 81kg are getting praised for their jackedness
I bought this dudes book after seeing this video. I used to be a wrestler and am now a sumo wrestler. These exercises in my opinion are even more versatile because they don't require machines, just free weights. I have never trained in a gym, I prefer just having a barbell and Olympic plates at home. The behind the back exercise especially I could feel the power in it from the picture, because it's hard to hold a barbell with a grip like that, and he is doing the tom platz esque deep sissy squat. As a fellow wrestler I feel it's my duty to try this workout. Just doing the neck stuff felt amazing, my neck is super fucked from headbutting people in sumo and I could feel some of the stiffness getting broken up, I already try to stretch my neck as much as possible but the working against your hands helped immensely. I also can tell I'd benefit from the classic neck bridge press. That's one that the Japanese wrestlers live by, probably another thing brought over by Karl gotch.
This guy is an absolute legend and was an absolute unit. I'm glad you actually made a video about him, I think he was one of the first to actually spread how to get big from a bodybuilding standpoint.
Natty lifters from over 100 years ago: - Trained intelligently with well structured, laid out progression schemes and made great gains. Modern Day Gym Bros - “Who cares about planning and programming! That shit is for pussies! Just train HARDER THAN LAST TIME!” - Modern Day gym bros then proceed to stall/plateau week after week. “I guess I’m at my Natural Limit, better start juicing now💉”
