NOW ON SALE! 365 DAYS OF BRUTALITY: AN ANTI-PROGRAMMING MANIFESTO

Jamie Chaos

July 17, 2019

It’s no secret that I’ve railed against the cookie cutter bullshit every fucking person seems to think is essential when they lift- the program. I’ve never used one, and the one’s I’ve put into my previous books have been templates reverse engineered from my own training, not a hard an fast prescription for success. Thus, I’m dropping 365 Days of Brutality on you- it’s a year of training and food, workouts and recipes, rejoinders to badassery and reminders of the extremities of human potential- though I went with a hard R rating rather than my usual NC-17+ because 300 pages of prose written like it was penned by Joe Pesci from Goodfellas gets a bit tiresome.

If you don’t feel like reading a list of every single person I’ve included in the book (if you do, they’re listed at the end of this), they’re 56 of the baddest motherfuckers to ever compete in powerlifting, bodybuilding, strongman, arm wrestling, wrestling, weightlifting, and a couple of interesting people of whom you may or may not have hear who never competed but should have… and that’s before I count the Chinese Olympic Weightlifting team and the Culver City Westside Barbell Club. They range as far as Brutal Bertil Fox (the murderous Mr. O competitor), George Hechter (who dropped a 126 lbs as the strongest heavyweight on Earth and actually had his deadlift go up because he trained so goddamned hard), supernerd bodybuilder Pillow, WWE superstar and Amateur Arnold Strongman Classic winner Braun Strowman, Big Z, Dmitri Klokov, Stefi Cohen, armwrestler Rob Vigant Jr… it’s a long goddamned list. And from each of those people I took either a single workout or a week’s worth, from which you can get ideas to better build your own training style.

Too many of us get caught up in the bullshit these days, throwing the blinders on, training one way or another to our own detriment, because there’s a hell of a lot of cool shit out there that we could all be doing that we’re not. Training methodologies that we should be pulling ideas from that we’ve ignored. Lifters of whom we should have heard and haven’t. And 365 Days of Brutality aims to put that shit to rest.

I promised you physical copies of the book, and they are coming. Amazon takes a couple of days to convert the electronic version to a physical copy. And because you guys asked, I’ll be buying about 20 of them and signing them however you instruct me to- it only makes sense to personable the signature in a book designed to help you personalize your training styles.

So if your mind and body are ready, scroll to to snag my magnum opus.

http://plagueofstrength.com/downloads/

*edit from Tara: the link isn’t as pretty as it was before but I KNOW this shit actually works.

And if you want to see what’s included in this monster first, here you go:

Introduction: A Revolt is in Order

Structuring Your Workouts

Rite of Passage Workouts

The Baby Steps Workout
“Murph”
DT
“Grace”
“Linda” aka “3 Bars of Death”
The Horrifically Painful 30 Minute Overhead Anyhow Challenge
Chef Rush and the White House Bicep Routine from Hell
Steve Michalik’s Intensity and Insanity for Chest, Shoulders, Arms
Marvin Eder’s Festival of Pain… Er, I Mean Dip Routine

Bodybuilders

Lee Priest: Demigod-Level Arm Training
Freddy Ortiz: Add a Couple Reps? Add Sets to Grow
Brutally In-Depth: John DeFendis’ Intensity or Insanity Routine
Bob Birdsong: If Overtraining Was a Legitimate Concern, His Corpse Would Extra Dead… and His Forearms Would be Tiny (But He’s Alive and Well)
Rob Colacino: Psycho-Burst Training
Harold Poole: The Full Body Bloodbath of the First Black Mr. America
Dorian Yates: Blood and Guts
Jeff King: Train Legs Twice a Week and Get Twice the Gainz
Leo Stern: An Old School Two Day Split for Strength and Mass
Scott Wilson: Badass With a Barn-Door Back
John McWilliams: 20” Muscular Arms in the Pre-Steroid Era Prove it is Possible to Do Without Gear
Armand Tanny: Old School Superset Madness
Brutal Bertil Fox: The Strongest Bodybuilder of the 1980s and His Gnarly Strip Sets of Death

Strongmen

Zydrunas Savickas- It’s Hard to Out-Great the GOAT Strongman
Manfred Hoeberl- 26” Arms are Useful in Strongman Jesse Marunde: Training Like a Strongman Phenom
Magnus Samuelsson- Legendary Grip Strength

Hybrid Athletes

Brutally In Depth: Pillow- The Insanely Shredded She-Beast of Bodybuilding and Nerdlesque
Jon Cole- King of the Supertotal and the First Collegiate Strength Coach in History
Brutally In Depth: Chuck Sipes- the Natty AF Bodybuilding Paratrooper With a Bench That Shocked the World
Chet Yorton- the Father of Natural Bodybuilding (And the Only Guy to Beat Arnold)
Brutally In Depth: Ivan Putski, Overhead Presser Extraordinaire
Mariusz Pudzianowski- Too Sexy for This Planet
Paul Anderson- When You’re This Strong, You Can Pretty Much Do Whatever You Want
Svend Karlsen- Building Viking Power
Brutally In Depth: John Grimek- People Take This Programming Shit WAY Too Seriously
Steve Merjanian- I’ve Got 500lb Incline and a Pair of Speedos… Let’s Party
Pat Neve- Bench Specialist Turned Bodybuilder Turned Rich Motherfucker
Eddie Robinson- Essentially the WSM of the 1980s Bodybuilding Scene
Doug Furnas- You Thought Jim Brown and Donald Dinnie had Best All-Round Athlete on Lock?

Powerlifters

Brutally in Depth: The Compiled Methods of the Original Culver City Westside Barbell Club
Stefi Cohen- The Deadlifting GOAT’s Squat Training
Doug Young- The Bench Press Badass the Internet Loves as a Muscle Bear
Roger Estep- If You’re Gonna Lift Big Weights, You Might As Well Look Good Doing It
Jeremy Hoornstra- Sometimes, Benching More Than You Squat is Cool as Shit
Brutally In Depth: Terrible Ted Arcidi, Bench Beast
Jennifer Thompson- Natty Superwoman
Vince Anello and Larry Pacifico- Bodybuilders and World Champion Powerlifters with No Plan Beyond WIN
Brutally In Depth: Pat Casey Outworks Everyone Pat Casey’s Shoulder and Arm Specialization

Weightlifters

Dmitriy Klokov- If Jesus Had Been a Russian Weightlifter, His Name Would Have Been Klokov
Russ Knipp- He Strict Pressed Your Best Bench… Weighing Only 165lbs
Brutally In Depth: Ike Berger- The Odd Lift Virtuoso and Beast-Mode, Pocket-Sized Weightlifter
Brutally In Depth: Coach Fang, Tian Tao, and Squatting Like a Fucking Monster with the Chinese Weightlifting Method
Bob Bednarski

Wrestlers/Arm Wrestlers/Random Weirdos

Brutally In Depth: Bruno Sammartino- From War Refugee to World Champion
Elias: Badass Active Recovery on a Rest Day
George Irving Nathanson: Rest Pause Insanity for One Lift Specialization
Isaac Nesser: Probable Bullshit Artist, But Interesting Nonetheless
Braun Strowman: Simulating Strongman Events to Trash Guys Who Have Real Implements
Rob Vigant Jr’s Forearms of Doom
Brutally In Depth: The Ultimate Warrior
Goldberg: Train Like an Athlete and You’ll Perform Like One

Diet: This Shit Ain’t That Hard

Unless You’re Already a Disgusting Landbeast (and I Mean Landbeast, not “Could Be Leaner”), Bulk, then Cut
Another Case for Bulking First- The Story of 1980s Powerlifting Monster George Hechter
Before You Buy a Weight Gainer, Behold the Bulking Shakes of the Golden Age of Bodybuilding
And then 31 badass recipes ranging from “too easy to possibly fuck up” to “it’s very possible you’ll fuck it up, but it’ll still be delicious”

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Jamie Chaos

I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

31 responses to “NOW ON SALE! 365 DAYS OF BRUTALITY: AN ANTI-PROGRAMMING MANIFESTO”

VLADISLAV MAKEEV

July 17, 2019

Just bought it!
Should the book start with table of contents?

You guys made a great cover and I thought it will be the first thing I see.
1. Tara Chaos
  
  July 17, 2019
  
  That is the weird way the epub software put it together. I’m really sorry about that.
  1. VLADISLAV MAKEEV
    
    July 18, 2019
    
    I put it on another reader and it works fine!
    
    Thank you and Jamie for grotesque amount of work.
Jonas

July 17, 2019

Excited to pick up the book! Have just purchased the Kindle version but the file won’t download via the email link. What’s the best way to solve this?
1. Tara Chaos
  
  July 17, 2019
  
  Jonas, email me at tara.plagueofstrength@gmail.com, and I’ll get it fixed for you as soon as I can.
Brandon Hewitt

July 17, 2019

p u r c h a s e d
1. Jamie Chaos
  
  July 17, 2019
  
  My man. Thanks!
Sascha

July 18, 2019

Purchased! Download worked without a problem, used the link provided in the email from the purchase (but “RE: you@example.com” seemed a little strange 😉 )

Will buy a (signed) physical copy without a doubt!
Will there be physical versions of your other books, too?

Greetings from germany!
1. Tara Chaos
  
  July 18, 2019
  
  I never said I was a Tech wiz. lol. I’m doing my best.
VVinter

July 18, 2019

I’ll be waiting for the physical copy
VLADISLAV MAKEEV

July 18, 2019

Jamie, what is the “politics of sport” that got Jeff King dropped out of bodybuilding?
Dante B

July 18, 2019

What Android epub reader has anyone found to be the best for this? I’ve went through a few, but haven’t found one I like to read this. Some don’t show a table of contents, some do, but can’t click to a section, etc.

Not a complaint – I plan on the paperback when available, and bought the epub ’cause I love you guys.
1. Tara Chaos
  
  July 18, 2019
  
  I sent you an email bro-tato chip!
2. VLADISLAV MAKEEV
  
  July 18, 2019
  
  Dante, try ReadEra. It worked best for this book.
  1. Jamie Chaos
    
    July 18, 2019
    
    That’s good to know, man. I actually use ReadEra for everything when I read on my phone.
Bt

July 18, 2019

Just bought it! This thing is fucking beautiful! Can’t remember the last time I was this pumped for something to come out!
David

July 18, 2019

Bought the e copy, but will def be buying a hard copy once it is available
1. Jamie Chaos
  
  July 18, 2019
  
  You’re the man. Seriously, guys, I really appreciate all the support.
Paul

July 20, 2019

This book is absolutely fucking sick! Anyone who loves training, yet doesn’t pick this up is doing themselves an enormous disservice..
Tom

July 21, 2019

Can’t wait for the physical book to come out
Lonnie

July 22, 2019

My first thought was that it was a bit pricey

Then my second thought was how many years of enjoyment I have gotten out of this blog. This thing is a beast of a book, thanks.

May you sell a million copies Jamie, I’m sure you work enough on these articles to deserve it.
Jeffery

July 31, 2019

Is this like a “daily workout” from me chaos?
Kenneth Reed

August 1, 2019

I just purchased this, and it reads from left to right (like an open book) with no ability to scroll forward or backwards. If that is just the way it works, I’m cool with it, just curious if there is a way to orient it in the fashion of the other Ebooks? (Not even close to being technically proficient, so be patient)
I have all the other ebooks and couldn’t wait for this to come out. I usually print them out, put them in binders, and bring them with me when I go to work (oilfield work, never home) or on vacation. But I think I will buy the physical copy when it comes out.
1. Tara Chaos
  
  August 1, 2019
  
  Ken,
  
  The electronic versions are supposed to replicate reading a book. We will have the paperback copy out as soon as my busy season slows down.
brian

August 1, 2019

just bought the ebook copy and it’s fucking amazing! anxiously awaiting the hard copy, and will be buying that as well!

thanks so much for this jamie and tara, you guys are immensely appreciated
brian

August 1, 2019

just bought the ebook copy and it’s fucking amazing! anxiously awaiting the hard copy, and will be buying that as well!

thanks so much for this jamie and tara, you guys are immensely appreciated
Kenneth Reed

August 1, 2019

Cool, I know ya’ll are busy, so thanks for the reply.
jason

August 8, 2019

Don’t wanna bug you guys, but any progress on Amazon getting the hard copy available for purchase?

Will be buying a number of copies and sending to some buddies..
jayvon

August 8, 2019

Is this book coming to Kindle? I see the other two but not this one.
1. Jamie Chaos
  
  August 9, 2019
  
  They limit the prices on Kindle, so I’m going to chop it up and release it as a serial, I think.
  1. jayvon
    
    August 9, 2019
    
    Cool.