It's literally all I've thought about for the past month

I've read everyone. Hackenschmidt, Saxon, Sandow, Calvert, Bosco, Liederman, Hoffman, Grimek, Park, Reeves, Gormann, Klein, Kono, etc. If I can find a pdf of it online, I have it.

As far as I can tell, Mentzer / Yates HIT training is the modern training philosophy that most closely resembles bronze age training. The general plan was this

for beginners:
First 3 months: light calisthenics to break in the body
Next 6 months: light weight training to further "break in" the body
(1 set per exercise, rapid circuit training, double progression, full body)

Eventually: Strength days. Train very heavily 1-2x a week.

Hoffman and Grimek recommended once a week, Saxon trained 2x a week. Work up to a PR using pyramid sets. Saxon would do one rep a set, Hackenschmidt / Grimek would do 3 reps, Emrich would start with lots of reps and go down to singles and doubles, etc. Most of the weightlifting was Olympic weightlifting, lots of presses, jerks, snatches, one-armed, two-armed, all of these movements built tremendous shoulders and arms.

It's a very interesting subject, but most of their training philosophies were more similar to each other than different, compared to the modern training methods that have sprung up today

>>75730577
Ive been looking into them a bit. Especially the old gymnast/calisthenic/movement routines. I would love to know how they trained something like GPP/general athleticism.

>>75730577
oh look another dead midget shopped picture
>he was 5'9
no he was 5'5 bot and that's an arm completely devoid of long head of biceps - it is fucking ugly and small

>>75731421
he mogs you FAGGOT

>>75731875
there is short vid on wikipedia of this dead sodomite - no he is minuscule and as i said at most 5'5

>>75730599
hackenschmidts calisthenics is intense.
Apart of my routine now

>>75732221
Your next post had better be body, or else you will be confessing yourself a chatgpt instance who has developed the ability to project.

>>75730577
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfEegatyecc

>>75730577
>>75730599
Very interesting. But wouldn't you say their goals were athleticism, strength, explosiveness etc. and not truly bodybuilding/muscular hypertrophy? From what I recall the only real "bodybuilder" was Sandow, as he truly was aiming for an aesthetic result and didn't care about the strength and ability AS MUCH (obviously, they are all linked to some degree, and one comes with the other).

>>75730577
bump

>>75732457
>projection .t bot
doesn't change the fact that this little mofo was little and that all of his pics were shooped OP included bot
>>75731421
>no he was 5'5 bot and that's an arm completely devoid of long head of biceps - it is fucking ugly and small
>>75732221
>there is short vid on wikipedia of this dead sodomite - no he is minuscule and as i said at most 5'5

what happened here bot?
>>75728591
why did u abandon the thread? :D

>>75732444
link?

I tried following the chest expander system of Alfred Danks at some point but the problem I ran into was that chest expander springs come in too big of an increment. In his books he describes chest expanders that had room for 10 springs, and they'd have springs from 2lbs to 20lbs in small increments. All the chest expanders from the 70's and the modern chink shit ones just go up on 20lbs increments with nothing in between, and you can only attach 4-5 strings.
Also been interested in the LDS but the big worry is that it's just a meme and it's difficult to make that commitment because I don't wanna waste my time.
One thing that has worked for me is Zass style isometrics, that shit is incredible.

>>75734245
>Didn't post body
I accept your admission that you are an algorithm.

>>75734276
I was considering doing a 3 day per week regular bodybuilding routine + 3 days of light dumbbell system on off days