An Old-School Program for Shirt-Busting Biceps and Titanic Triceps This essay is the start of a planned series on old-school, real bodybuilding training. It is a follow-up, however, to an article I wrote earlier this month entitled “Real Bodybuilding the Old-School Way.” That article has proven popular enough that I figured there would be interest in an entire series on the subject. So, I guess this is technically the 2 nd part, even though I never intended that first one as part of a series when I wrote it. I would advise reading that article before continuing here (and not just because it will help you understand this article but because I think it’s a pretty damn good read even if, you know, I’m a bit biased), but the gist of it boils down to this: Old school bodybuilders built impressive size, strength, and definition (before the advent of large amounts of PEDs) by following 3 “stages” of tr...
Essays on Old-School Strength Training, Classic Bodybuilding, Traditional Martial Arts, and Budo Philosophy