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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