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This is literally the healthiest channel on KZfaq

I had severe scoliosis as a child that required I wear a back brace. My doctor told me I was headed for a wheelchair, and the only thing I could do to help prevent that from happening was to start exercising to strengthen my core (abs, lower back, and glutes). I now am an adult in my 30s and haven't need a back brace in 20 years. I work out regularly and even competed in several bodybuilding shows. Bronze era bodybuilders had the right mindset.

I have osteoporosis and also fractured 2 vertebrae in an accident, but thru physiotherapy and continuing working out a couple times each week, I feel like I've completely recovered and even surpassed my past self in health and strength.

I lift six days a week with dumbbells and barbells at home, lots of stretching, yoga on my rest day, and meal prep for the week every weekend. I feel great, am losing weight gradually and am gaining strength. My two cents, the bodies from the bronze era look better and healthier to me than today's bodybuilders. And it was a healthy and holistic approach.

I'm a personal trainer for 25 years...Steve reeves said 3 days a week lifting..power walking and a good diet does the rest. That's what I teach..it's ez

I started working out because i was pre diabetic and already had hypertension for being overweight, back in 2013. Had to workout or suffer the consequences which most of my family suffered. Lost 88lbs, lost my asthma in the process, did a 180° in my diet and slowly in one year, lost 88 lbs, and over time, stronger in the past 10 years, i don't ever wanna be fat again

This guys where tough as nails, true role models

I started doing calisthenics, rings, kettlebells, dumbbells, Concept 2 rowing, mountain biking, and rice bucket when Covid 19 closed all the gyms. I was lucky I had most of the equipment before the hammer fell. I had lifted weights for years, but I never discovered how much better my body does with higher reps and lighter weights. Something about the volume makes my body respond like it never did for free weights. By the end of the Summer, by legs and back are incredibly strong from all the biking and rowing. I guess I have a bias toward Type 1 muscle fibers and I train the Type 2 fibers when I get exhausted and do sprints to failure. Reps, reps, reps...YES!

Thank you! Whenever people in my life think about fitness the first things that come to mind are unfortunately the idea of a fancy gym membership, a personal trainer, diet pills, cumbersome at home equipment, nice athletic wear. A lot of them have struggled just to get started with their fitness journey just because they get so bogged down in all of these details. Thank you for emphasizing that fitness is actually very simple: do something every day and eventually you will be much stronger and have a much better physique. Period.

Yes, exercise is free. And effort is the most important ingredient.

Your videos inspired me to do one of my school projects abt old school bodybuilding. It's great how you promote early physical culture

This channel is truly one of the best not just for fitness but in general on this platform. Thank you so much for these amazing videos!

Your content is so increrdibe and necessary nowdays! Indeed, it IS simple, and is MUCH more than hypertrophy. Bodybuilding has been long gone, for most of the people, as an art of the body.

Im just about to start my body building journey and get recommended this video .

Bronze age lifter: Do you think we wanted to do free weight leg presses?! You kids have it so easy.

I have been excerising since like 10yrs now and I started with all those clickbaity youtube videos "get shredded now" but after years of lifting I got into IF and beign healthy, this kind of content is perfect for natty lifters, I love this channel... real fitness.

I love this. I laughed out loud at the thought of these early bodybuilders just quitting because they were told they had bad genetics or low testosterone, which proves those claims are just silly excuses to not even try. The last point about not only being big and jacked but strong, functional and aesthetic is also great. Epic video as always Natty Life!

But for real your channel is very inspiring to me. Especially the part of this video where you mentioned that they grew up as sickly children and grew into men with the physiques of Greek gods as I have grown up sick my whole life and have a passion for fitness and bodybuilding

You are dead on… You are the best thing that’s happened to Trainor on the Internet, your precise, your eloquent gracefully and intelligently thank you thank you thank you

I lost my enthusiasm because of all the rubbish the media sales us. Really appreciate all of your work you put it in. It’s helping me out a lot in my journey.

Genetics is just where you start. Good genetics means less work to get where you want to be. BUT anyone can reach a peak physique. Even bad muscle insertions can look amazingly impressive. You will be more impressive then 98% out there even with bad genetics.

I recently got me a chest expander with 6 springs (I even have another 4 laying around). Can barely use 2 rn, when I get to 5-6 springs I'll be JACKED

Bodybuilding = consistent training + good diet + patience. Now okay there are nuances. But they matter at the margins, not for the middle 80%. For the middle 80% - everything else should be an afterthought, including genetics. Also agree that modern fitness culture values muscle over anything else. That's a sad development - we should value mobility & flexibility just as much. Hopefully there will be an evolution with channels like yours.

Sound, thoughtful advice! I started lifting weights in 1959 and continue to this very day with enthusiasm. I have a collection of muscle magazines going back to the late 1940's that offered good advise. I to have witnessed the evolution and destructive nature of steroids and was able to avoid that temptation! I enjoy your content....thank you!

Oh. I had terrible lower back pain as slim even kinda sporty teenager that forced me into the gym. It fixed it. Went through plenty gym breaks till the pain came back. Maxxed out low back and abs machines. Currently deadlifting up to 160kg/350lbs raw and i like the gym now . No backpain at all 9+/10 days. I'm definitely not looking my best but them being sickly kids kinda makes me feel connected.

This inspired me to start working out again. You seem like a good guy, the world needs more genuine people like you. Thank you for your videos, keep up the great work man

The genetics thing. I was an obese 263lbs, and i suffer from asthma. One day i had had enough, signed myself up for a race,and got myself to work. I got down to 183lbs and came 3rd with a 17:35 5km. If you want it, you can do it

As a life-long thin guy I appreciate the content of your channel, and the realistic depictions of what hard work and fitness can look like.

Light weights with multiple reps and sets works for me and my genetics 😊

Bonsoir merci de remettre "les pendules à l'heure". Et en plus vous avez mis mon athlète préféré de l'air de bronze en photo dans votre vidéo le Français Ernest Cadine .J'ai 65 ans et je continue à m'entrainer .Des haltères cours. banc à développer ,Soulevé de terre .Presse. Squat au poids de corps je ne plus mettre de poids sur mes trapèzes, cela compresse trop mes vertèbres.L'été dans la rue en t shirt les gens me demande si je fait de la musculation .Ca fait plaisir .Et oui je peu bomber le torse comme les "jeunes coq" 😁😁.Continuez de faire vos vidéos ca fait du bien à des gens de mon âge de voir des jeunes s'entrainer comme on le faisais avant l'air des stéroïdes.Bonne soirée.

i have to admit, that i prefer the old school look more than the mordern day look of body building!

Those Guys Were Not Ronnie Coleman Big, But They Were The Definition Of Pure Strength. I Would Rather Have A Bronze Era Physique Than Coleman’s Any Day.

I enjoy your videos bro. I've always had high motivation, but this video in particular got me fired up for my next lift. You are doing god's work, for the love of god, don't ever stop: the fitness community needs A LOT more people speaking the same way you are. I am hoping your messages reach those who are looking to get started.

BRAVO!!! I started weightlifting once I retired and have used your videos to guide me to a rational and sustainable fitness routine. I'm using "just" dumbells, protien powder (along with a well-balanced diet), and Leroy Colberts' philosphy to guide me. At 60 I am making great gains, have great energy and look forward to every workout. No excuses, just lift!

Love this channel and this video shows why. There’s so much to admire about bronze era lifters, and they are really inspiring to me. They didn’t have access to steroids, but they also didn’t have access to modern machines, and probably had limited options when it came to food. Yet they still built amazing physiques and became insanely strong. As someone who has dealt with Anorexia for most of my life, and have been really sickly at points, it’s these bodybuilders I look up to.

Yeh the whole Genetics thing got started after Arthur Jones founder of high intensity bodybuilding coined the phrase genetic potential

This is probably one of the best fitness vídeos on yt. Agree 100% Actually now having more fancy stuff and science at disposal it's our oblogation to try going even better...

Great Video!!! I wish more "fitness influencers" would share this very simple message.

I fully agree on this matter. All I take is just a basic protein powder and black coffee for energy before I go work out. This was a great take as it takes hard work and dedication get in the best shape you can be.

I'm 59 and just told a friend that I run 25 to 20 miles a week and do resistance training 4 times a week. I have a crappy diet in that I eat whatever I want and only supplement with creatine. I have nothing against supplements as I feel like I've tried them all and just got nothing out of them. The only thing that seems to work on me is simply more cardio than the average lifter likes to do. Most of all, keep it fun and rest when your body seems to need it. Great video, thanks!!!

I had asthma very bad as a child, but in the early 80s, the doctor told my parents to put my inhaler on the side of the pool and make me swim. I also worked out with the chest expander, bullworker, 5BX from the Air Force, etc. I ended up playing 2 Division I sports in college and was in the Army. I grew out of the asthma and weakness with lots of hard work. Black pill is stupid and limiting. Life is like a track meet; you’re competing against your own personal record and abilities. It’s your job to develop yourself into the best that God gave you.

I wish I didn’t listen to people at the gym on training splits. I’m getting way better results from training twice a week than training six days a week. I do legs on Saturday and an upper body workout on Sunday.

Old school bodybuilders were definitely more versatile. Like you said they did a bit of everything. Nowadays everyone just wants to look the part.

You are right, building muscle is indeed very simple, just hard work, consistency, good healthy food.

I have gotten into a couple of back and forths with people online because I questioned the utility of theorizing so much about people's "genetic limits". It would have been nice to clearly articulate my thoughts in an effective manner. Like you just did. Those were my thoughts. Thank you for presenting them to me in a organized manner. Thou rockest.

This is a very refreshing take man. We've forgotten why we train

So TRUE! What a fantastic reminder. Keep at it, get pumped, eat and sleep well. Gains are comin'.

I have to admit, and I think many others can agree the paralysis by analysis is a giant factor.

There seems to be a really strong temptation to look at the Bronze Era and see it as a simpler time where men without modern conveniences made up for it with basic exercises and good old fashioned hard work. While obviously these guys worked hard, I think this take really overlooks the level of skill, sophistication, and creativity that went into their training. They didn't have the same variety of equipment in some cases, but what they did with it! That's a different story all together. No matter how hard working or consistent they were, they would never have been able to build such capabilities with "simple, basic training" as we understand it today. I think there was a lot less agreement on what sort of training was the best at that time than now, when we're all comparing notes on social media, so it isn't as easy to see what the generally agreed upon principles were at that time, but if you look at the training of any of the greats, each individual found something that worked very well for him, and it was rarely "Simple," by today's standards.

Their muscles just looked so freaking dense its insane. Prob due to the vastly superior nutrition value of their largely unadulterated food.

Great channel excellent content. Old school bodybuilders are the boys.Hard training and dedication pays off.Nice one.

Great stuff love hearing about bronze and silver era bodybuilders .. Keep up the good work.

I don't buy his supplements, but I love watching coach greg.

Compound movements + time + progressive overload = gains The goal of lifting is to continue lifting for as long as possible with as little injury as possible,

Modern bodybuilding: looking unnatural while being unhealthy&dehydrated, and flexing everything as hard as possible Classic bodybuilding: had to display strength, muscle control, while looking vibrant

Excellent video thank you for another awesome video

Great video man, this is what Arthur Jones was saying in the early 70's its all about the intensity of effort and being consistent long term. Of course your genetics determine your shape and the amount of muscle mass an individual can aquire but we all can improve drastically over time

The last point really inspires me. Physical activity is beautiful. It is useful, funciontal, benefic, all those things, but above all is beautiful. Is gives you joy, it's pleasant to watch and to perform and one should explore and cultivate as many skills as he/she can in my opinion. Of course time is not unlikited so you would have to periodize your traininf, and it is something that I' lookinf forward to as soon as I reach certain strenght levels ( particularly squat 2 times bw, bench press 1.5 times bw, 15 clean full rom pull ups to the clavicle)

Awesome channel

"the mindset is free!" Awesome! Short and memorable. I'm 54. Ectomorphic, but mesomorphic wanna be. The skinniest white boy in Oregon who wanted to be Mr T. Lifted most my life. Natural. Despite working at a bodybuilding gym through college. "Don't take any hormone supplements because your body quits making it and your stuck for life? " My greatest gains have come in the last year since adopting a keto diet. It's amazing. I tell my friends "I'm not on roids, I'm off carbs!" Happy to be natural, healthy and gaining strength and muscle again!

I love old school training and I started to study training science for this. Old school training is a great deal to start lifting and to get big and strong simultaneously, but today we got incredible gym equipments and machines that can help us a lot in the matter of bodybuilding. Sticking to the principles of hard training and progressing overload it's a must and this is truly what gym members need to understand to get their whished results.

Information now is really like a double edged sword like you said. It becomes overwhelming to the point lifters now obssess about training the most 'optimal' way with the most 'science-based' studies, or with top tier equipment rather than training hard and eating enough itself. Bronze Era bodybuilders just worked with what they have regardless of equipment or whatever they could supplement their performance with. It just comes down with training their asses off consistently, pushing themselves to their limits to progress as well as also giving their time to eat enough and rest/recover.

Body building shouldn't be that complicated, just start the journey and no BS!!!!

5:30 I 100% agree with this, finding content for hypertrophy is magnitudes times easier than finding more functional training content because these type of functional movements take much longer time to show any visual effects, but these are the actual movements we need to get strong at You may have a crazy strong bench or deadlift pr, but in practical situations, you don't have a bench or proper flat surfaces to exert your maximum effort/muscular strength. It's better to improve your pushing strength in 10 different angles/movements/exercises if your goal is strength and power and body control

You've said it all and summed it up perfectly. Thanks for this new video and all your content in general.

I lifted to look good for years but missed training for a purpose. I didn't want to compete as a bodybuilder, so I started thinking to myself, "Why am I this big?" I had a lifelong interest in Judo and found a school near my work. As soon as I took my first class, I knew I had to start weight training for function and had never been so excited. It had been over 20 years since I trained for a sport, and it's been the change I needed. Love training for Judo, and it's made my training more fun.

Training in this way and living the way they did taught me to be creative, self imposed limitations are now a joke, you can achieve a lot with just the basics.

Best channel on health

Awesome video!

I completely agree with your thoughts. Today we overthink too much

Dude, this video is fantastic, fucking love it! Bro you have no idea, when I saw the Indian body builders from your channel, it set a fire in my soul - I purchased a macebell. I want to be like those guys. The physiques of that era are just on another level. Thank you for making a video about this. Very informative, very inspiring!

I agree cuz im training like this to i gave up the machines and modern bodybuilders know days are for show but no go im prefer this training method method of body building it needs to come back

I also feel that bodybuilding has lost it sofistication. The focus on the hipertrophy and not the body as a whole makes people stiff, clumsy, with no armony or aesthetic.

Absolutely astounding great video!!! Yes! This is what can benefit anyone with a true passion to not only better themselves but to perfect what has been done but lost over time. Excellent work done here

Great video .. I eat steak and eggs and lift heavy as I can .. sometimes I can't go as heavy from a hard weeks work so I train less days and maybe go abit lighter.. just doing something is better than not doing it.. also some of the best sessions you have are when you are battling with yourself about even going to workout

I love the message this sends!

Even if people pay some attention to new research, they really need to disregard the idea that they need to be 'updating' their plans all the time as a result. All you need to do is train, eat and sleep well. It may well be that there are some small inefficiencies and better ways of doing things, but the facts is that the core principles haven't altered a great deal. Progressive consistency over time and a sense of reality goes a long way.

Appreciated, keep motivating.

Im happy to find this Channel,great,true Content!🔥👍😎

I love the bronze era. Natural strength for life man!

Thank you for your videos! : )

"Bronze-Era" = The Best Era💪💯

Thanks a lot for sharing your view. It is so important, that people recognize, that this sport isn't about mass, but quality, also about overall health and most importantly mind-body connection!!! People are caught up deep in the dschungel of fitness methods, that they do not see, what it is essentially about . It is a big help, to especially younger people, to get into touch with a more natural way of living and conducting sports without drugs! All the best🙂

Great video💪👍

1. Get Strong AF (example Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength) 2. Get Ripped 3. Find some other thing to do as mentioned in the video

I love it. I turned 40 this year. Been training consistently since 14. Still look and feel 25. I didnt “train” today, just banged out fifty push-ups, three reps static hold pull-ups with legs out. Fifty lunges and squats and a hundred calf raises. This is a mandatory minimum for an off day. Consistency is key.

Could not agree more excellent vid

Increible, sobre todo la seccion q mencionas q el culturismo es más q la hipertrofia

Nice to see you uploading more 🙏🏾

Another fantastic piece

Thanks! Extremely welcome and refreshing insight. We should all learn from history

Thank you very much.

Body building has lost sight of the fact that it should be about making one's self, not just bigger, but healthier.

Preach brother 🙌🏽

excellent points! you make a ton of sense but I'm afraid it will fall on deaf ears, or on people who already agree. I'm more boxer than bodybuilder but I like bodybuilding too but sadly there's only yourself and maybe 2 other people I listen to, everything else I've seen out there is just garbage. Maybe I had an advantage, my dad worked for Nautilus and would tell me stories about Arthur Jones and training that to me anyway, made lots of sense. Anyway, great video, have a good day!

I can say after 15 yrs off trqning that my strength is constant and im never been to doctor. But my buddy's that took peds are weaker with years and pills got up. I may not be shredded and most biggest guy,but i dont need pills to help me move things,and run. Be healthy and look to make yourself better not fake. Years of training will show how dedicated you were.

Old school bodybuilders never had to live in the modern toxic environment. So don’t say thinking testosterone is irrelevant. We don’t have their luxury of living in a world without plastic, poisoned drinking water, low nutrition foods and nukes. It’s incomparable. We should try to correct low testosterone because it can be a sign of poor health and environmental stress. Agreed with everything else.

Great talk! I wholeheartedly agree 👍

astronomically based video.