Plague of Strength

Far too much emphasis is placed today on the utilization of cookie cutter routines designed by strangers to appeal to the lowest common denominator or lifter, while few texts today appeal to the beast within every real lifter. 365 Days of Brutality does just that- it enables lifters to harness their inner badass by emulating the training of the badasses who have gone before them, and in doing so, forge their own path.  365 Days of Brutality is a compendium of a year’s worth of workouts designed to take the aspiring gymgoer from “who gives a $h!t about that gymbro nobody” to “slavering, musclebound, iron-crazed slaughterbeast” within that time frame. These workouts have been sourced from some of the most insane and intense strength athletes from every discipline- wrestlers, powerlifters, Olympic weightlifters, bodybuilders, and arm wrestlers- to ensure that anyone reading it will have the tools necessary to jump into the middle of anyone’s workout and hang with or beat the people with whom (against whom) they’re training.  Leave the allegedly scientific programming to the prey animals and clock punchers, the posers and the neophytes, and learn to sharpen your fangs and attack the gym with the ferocity that belies your will to defeat gravity. This is 365 Days of Brutality.

Included in the download are a version in two formats- Kindle and ePub. The Table of Content follows to show you how unbelievably comprehensive this book is.

• An Introduction to Anti-Programming 19
• A Revolt is in Order 21
• Assume Formlessness 22
• Here’s How You Use This Book 25
• Structuring Your Workouts 25
• Do It. Don’t Talk About It. 28
• Rite of Passage Workouts 31
• The Baby Steps Workout 32
• Murph 33
• DT 33
• Grace 34
• Linda aka “3 Bars of Death” 34
• The Horrifically Painful 30 Minute Overhead Anyhow Challenge 35
• Chef Rush and the White House Bicep Routine from Hell 35
• Steve Michalik’s Intensity and Insanity for Chest, Shoulders, Arms 38
• Marvin Eder- A Festival of Pain… Er, I Mean Dips 40
• Lee Priest: Demigod-Level Arm Training 42
• Freddy Ortiz: Add a Couple Reps?  How About You Add A Couple Sets If You Want to Grow. 46
• Brutally In-Depth: John DeFendis’ Intensity or Insanity Routine 48
• 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) 59
• Rob Colacino: Psycho-Burst Training 61
• Harold Poole: The Full Body Bloodbath of the First Black Mr. America 66
• Full Body Routine, Done 3-4x a Week 67
• Dorian Yates: Blood and Guts 68Jeff King: Train Legs Twice a Week and Get Twice the Gainz 71
• Leo Stern: An Old School Two Day Split for Strength and Mass 73
• Scott Wilson 76
• John McWilliams: 20” Muscular Arms in the Pre-Steroid Era Prove it is Possible to Do Without Gear 78
• Armand Tanny: Old School Superset Madness 80
• Brutal Bertil Fox: The Strongest Bodybuilder of the 1980s and His Gnarly Strip Sets of Death 82
• Zydrunas Savickas- It’s Hard to Out-Great the GOAT Strongman 87
• Manfred Hoeberl- 26” Arms are Useful in Strongman 91
• Jesse Marunde: Training Like a Strongman Phenom 93
• Magnus Samuelsson- Legendary Grip Strength 98
• Brutally In Depth: Pillow- The Insanely Shredded She-Beast of Bodybuilding and Nerdlesque 100
• Jon Cole- King of the Supertotal and the First Collegiate Strength Coach in History 106
• Brutally In Depth: Chuck Sipes- the Natty AF Bodybuilding Paratrooper With a Bench That Shocked the World 110
• Chet Yorton- the Father of Natural Bodybuilding (And the Only Guy to Beat Arnold) 120
• Paul Anderson- When You’re This Strong, You Can Pretty Much Do Whatever You Want 132
• Svend Karlsen- Viking Power Like What 135
• Brutally In Depth: John Grimek- People Take This Programming Shit WAY Too Seriously 139
• Steve Merjanian- I’ve Got 500lb Incline and a Pair of Speedos… Let’s Party 148
• Pat Neve- Bench Specialist Turned Bodybuilder Turned Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly 151
• Eddie Robinson- Essentially the WSM of the 1980s Bodybuilding Scene 154
• Doug Furnas- You Thought Jim Brown and Donald Dinnie had Best All-Round Athlete on Lock? 159
• Brutally in Depth: The Compiled Methods of the Original Culver City Westside Barbell Club 163
• The Culver City Westside Barbell Crew 163
• Stefi Cohen- The Deadlifting GOAT’s Squat Training 181
• Doug Young- The Bench Press Badass the Internet Loves as a Muscle Bear 183
• Roger Estep- If You’re Gonna Lift Big Weights, You Might as Well Look Good Doing It 185
• Jeremy Hoornstra- Sometimes Benching More Than You Squat is Cool as Shit 188
• Brutally In Depth: Terrible Ted Arcidi, Bench Beast and Utter Maniac 190
• Jennifer Thompson- Natty Superwoman 202
• Vince Anello and Larry Pacifico- Bodybuilders and World Champion Powerlifters Flying (and Winning) By the Seats of Their Goddamn Pants 206
• Brutally In Depth: Pat Casey Outworks Everyone in History 209
• Dmitriy Klokov- If Jesus Had Been a Russian Weightlifter, His Name Would Have Been Klokov, Because This Motherfucker Walks on Water 214
• Russ Knipp- He Strict Pressed Your Best Bench… Weighing Only 165lbs 216
• Brutally In Depth: Ike Berger- The Odd Lift Virtuoso and Beast-Mode, Pocket-Sized Weightlifter 218
• Brutally In Depth: Coach Fang, Tian Tao, and Squatting Like a Fucking Monster with the Chinese Weightlifting Method 224
• Tian Tao, the Squatting Machine 225
• Bob Bednarski- 100% American Built Muscle 230
• Brutally In Depth: Bruno Sammartino- From War Refugee to World Champion 233
• Elias: Badass Active Recovery on a Rest Day 236
• George Irving Nathanson: Rest Pause Insanity for One Lift Specialization 238
• Isaac Nesser: Probable Bullshit Artist, But Interesting Nonetheless 239
• Braun Strowman: Simulating Strongman Events to Trash Guys Who Have Real Implements 242
• Rob Vigant Jr’s Forearms of Doom 245
• Brutally In Depth: The Ultimate Warrior, 246
• Goldberg: Train Like an Athlete and You’ll Perform Like One 258
• Unless You’re Already a Disgusting Landbeast (and I Mean Landbeast, not “Could Be Leaner”), Bulk, then Cut 262
• Another Case for Bulking First- The Story of 1980s Powerlifting Monster George Hechter 276
• Better Brisket Than Most Restaurants (Without Using Brisket or a Smoker) 280
• Mamma Chaos’ Meatballs 281
• Tara’s Oven Roasted Chicken 282
• Mamma Chaos (Almost) Competition Winning Chili 282
• Tara’s Tacos (without the Envelope) 283
• The Easiest Portable Gainz in History- Mexican Beef, Beans, and Rice 284
• The Fat Kid Meals 285
• Jamie’s Butter Chicken 285
• Sausage Gravy That Will Get You Laid 285
• Tara’s more Bacon than Potato Soup 286
• Baked Mac and Cheese 288
• Hypertrophic Coney Island Hot Dogs 288
• The Greek Sauce 288
• Isocaloric (If you want) Spaghetti Pie 289
• Lazy ass meal prep, Keto(ish) 291
• Keto Chicken Tenders 291
• Tara’s Bone Broth 292
• Tara’s Lazyass Crockpot Buffalo Chicken 293
• One Pan Oh Fuck! Keto Chicken and Sausage Bake 293
• Jamie’s Go To: Steak and Chimi 294
• The Chimi 294
• The Steak 295
• Crockpot Carnitas 296
• Chicken Asparagus Packages 296
• Egg Cupcakes 297
• “Everyone Loves Bacon” Wrapped Chicken 297
• Parmesan Crunchies 297
• LT’s Easy Ass Marinade 299
• Drunk Limey Bastard 299
• Jamie’s Go To Garlic – Parm Marinade 300
• Basic Garlic Herb Butter 300
• Use Everywhere Marinade 301
• Chicken-Broccoli Alfredo 302
• Chicken Tortilla Soup 302
• Italian Wedding Soup 303
• Spicy Baked Broccoli & chicken 303
• Rheo Blair’s Creamy Delicious 309
• Blair’s Light Creamy 310
• Blair’s Yogurt Delight 311
• Blair’s California Coconut Delight 312
• Vince Gironda’s Hormone Precursor Shake 313
• Bob Hoffman’s Hi-Proteen Shake 314
• McCallum’s Get Big Drink 316

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