Primal Blueprint Fitness - Intense bodyweight workout

[gb389]

The deer was the best part of this entire video.

[coldzak]

Thanks for posing this video. It is waking up my inside nature

[InvisibleSun97]

Niiice! 

[fra3rd]

Gorgeous place to live! ... enjoyed the video and the workout!

[MrGregbint]

unfortunately i dont have any fucking slippery trees or logs to climb/crawl across, thanks for the misleading title, next time im at a cottage in my metropolitan town ill be sure to try your methods out you lush.

[USAJungleGym]

Great stuff man!

ManTis

[bagginshates]

What is the soundtrack for this video? I want to learn the guitar. thx

[GreenwaldTom]

@bagginshates

Sorry mate. I don't know. My friend edited this video and he found this song somewhere.

[jumprilke]

Are you a traceur?

[GreenwaldTom]

@jumprilke No. I just enjoy using different training methods.

[staralur03]

Thank YOU for showing really slow somersaults and safety rolls! I hurt myself doing one when I was really little so utilizing the method you use to do them will help me build back up the confidence to work on these!! GREAT VIDEO. Wish I had a beam like that to do pull ups. I end up driving to a playground...

[dolphin6]

where are you learning how to do your primal workouts? I am seeing all these videos, and want to learn. Love the video, very peaceful

[GreenwaldTom]

@dolphin6 Thanks! "Primal" is more like a marketing slogan :) Basically those are just simple body-weight/functional strength exercises. You can do them anywhere - in a gym, in forest... Check out "MaxwellStrengthCond" channel. Steve has got some great ideas and he really knows what he is talking about. .

[trevfrank]

did u eat your cat after this workout for your raw protein?

[DuckHeadlolz]

inspiring video! you've made me want to do my next cardio session outside :)

[RudiCast]

what gloves did u use to climb the tree? just some normal ones? or fingerless workout gloves?

[GreenwaldTom]

@RudiCast I used FOX MX gloves. I usually don't use gloves for climbing or pull-ups. With bare hands you get better "response" and you toughen your hand muscles and skin even more. In this video I used gloves because the tree was really wet and it was too slippery to do it with bare hands.

[jitsu30]

Really cool. I know Mark Sisson wrote the Primal Blueprint which I just purchased and he was involved in some way in the P90x program with Tony Horton. I, upon first glance, saw many of the movements from p90x in your workout. My first thought after watching this was 1 to get out into nature and do this (I felt it deep in my brain that this was a primal need/desire-weird) and that I could do many of my P90x moves outside. Thanks. If that's your cabin so cool

[Fatherfilms]

Thats awesome dude! Great effort! Great video, inspiring.

[PrimalToad1]

Awesome workout. This is what primal fitness is all about! Getting out in nature and using our full body for a fun and effective workout.

[primalenergy]

Nice! Funny how just because you are not muscle laden every idiot has to criticize your workout. And yet look at Anderson Silva! He over powers and puts away giant over trained fighters every time. If you watch mma? He is your build by the way. There is a lot people have to learn about what fitness is. There is no hard and fast rule it varies for everybody. Some guys who look amazing and kill themselves in the gym are insanely unhealthy, and are on deaths door

[GreenwaldTom]

@primalenergy I know who is Anderson Silva. One of my friends is a big martial arts fan.

Unfortunately many people often forget that fitness isn't only about muscle mass. It incorporates other factors like endurance, flexibility and longevity. Also every person has different genes and different gene expressions. I know a BMX racer who is an amazing sprinter but he has got really skinny legs. We just need to accept that everyone is different.

[GreenwaldTom]

@primalenergy Talking about fighters. In a fitness forum I once saw a discussion where people where arguing who would win in a fight - a professional kick-boxer or a bodybuilder. That just shows the level of knowledge those people possess :) So often people believe that raw strength or even muscle mass is more important than skills.

[primalenergy]

@GreenwaldTom

If skills do not count then how come Marius Pudzianowski is not the worlds best fighter? As he is one of the strongest men in the world. But he is a shit fighter

[GreenwaldTom]

@primalenergy You misunderstood me. I said just the opposite. I believe that skills are far more important than raw strength. If it would be the other way around then every sport would be dominated by strongmen and power lifters. ;)

[primalenergy]

@primalenergy Lol you misunderstood me. I did not mean that statement to have aggressive undertones. It was not directed at you. Just a thought I had that I wished to express. It should have had the tone of being an agreement with your previous post

[GreenwaldTom]

@primalenergy ohhh.... ok :D My mistake!

[efisgpr]

Tom, this OvoPiano guy is obviously wrong. Please just read my commentary and USE IT. You will NOT be sorry.

[efisgpr]

If Scott Summers trains the strongest people alive (or even some of them) please tell me how many world titles they have won in strength competitions.

"what you say is basically true" NO what I am teaching you is 100% true. I'm in the field, and am at a very high level. You have much to learn. You will NOT meet your potential in maximal strength without approaching your 1RM in training.

AND WHY is max strength so important? Because all other fitness variables flow from there. It's the base.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

what you say is what Rippetoe says and he has been proven wrong many many times since there are very strong people who never lifted a weight in their life. This video is about primal fitness which is an ideological way to be as strong as possible without much or any human created equipment, so I think you're preaching to the wrong chorus. That being said it's also 100% true that you can be incredibly strong without ever lifting weights in your life.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

Sommers had trained gymnast athletes for the olympic games, that his athletes are extremely strong is something one can determined just by looking at them (and they're also trimmed to the bone and as ripped as humanly possible) Sommers himself abandoned weight lifting when he realized that 5x5 and other stuff were making "him" less strong than when he trained using nothing but bodyweight movements. He proved this by lifting way more than seasoned 5x5 lifters the first day he tried

[efisgpr]

This is all you need Tom (my last comment). Besides reading Charles Poliquin (the BEST in the world---ever), read anyone he suggests. Most of all, go do all the routines he lays out. You will look and perform WAY BETTER.

[efisgpr]

Look, trust me OvoPiano, you would look, feel, and perform totally differently if you were to lift in all the repetition ranges I suggest. It's just the way it works. For best results, start with a dynamic warm up, then your high-coordination, high-weight lifts (hitting the high-threshold motor units). So, that entails wts. you can lift for 5 reps or more (again, after warming up for that particular lift). Next, you'll want to work in the 6-12/14 rep range. Then it's on to the 15-25 range.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

I'm not saying your suggestions are not true but with body composition, strength and such there are many ways to the same end, otherwise the body would be not only extremely stupid but unfit for survival (and I've never seen evidence of hunter-gatherers lifting rocks according to a certaing rep and set range) Scott Sommers train some of the strongest athletes alive (and they have chiseled ripped physique as well) but they never lifted something in their life, except their body

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

so don't get me wrong: what you say is basically true and your suggestions are appreciated, but it's not the only way and it seems to me that Tom here is more interested in getting a strong as is naturally possible, as humans were supposed to be in their natural environment, without any sort of modern external tools (yes, barbells can be considered very modern)

[efisgpr]

Tom, this is NOT "Intense" at all.

If I had 6 months to train you, you'd be about twice as strong, bigger, and faster. That is honest. Keep learning & training. Pick up some iron.

[GreenwaldTom]

@efisgpr

Hi! It's very hard to evaluate the intensity of a workout. Especially from a small sample like this video.

I agree with you that this is not the best way to build raw strength and speed. On the other hand it's usually fun to implement this kind of workouts in your training routine. This is just a workout variation filmed for MDA "competition". It doesn't show the full workout or explain the purpose of this routine.

[efisgpr]

@GreenwaldTom It's not hard at all, actually, for a high-level fitness pro like myself. I applaud your use of real movements, but I think you'd thoroughly enjoy strongman training, for example. From there, I'd suggest adding in the barbell/dumbbell stuff a few months later. Good luck, buddy.

[GreenwaldTom]

@efisgpr How I already mentioned we both have different goals. I know that lifting weights is beneficial. However I eager to know how far I can go with using so called "natural movements" only. Currently I do what feels good for me. My aim is not to become the strongest or the fastest. I just want to enjoy my workout and maintain a good health. I don't have a strict goal in mind - I want to develop my movement skills in different areas.

[GreenwaldTom]

@efisgpr About the intensity. I can call fast running a sprint even if it's not 100% effort. I used to be a MTB racer. I was especially good in sprint disciplines. I was even able to out-gate some top level amateur BMX racers. In the last year of racing I suffered from a heart overload (I don't know how it's called in english) while I was training sprint intervals. That's what happens when your legs get stronger than your heart. Now I'm more careful when it comes to high intensity training. 

[GreenwaldTom]

@efisgpr Thanks for your advice, but I have already achieved some great personal goals during the period of last 6 months. Probably we have different goals in mind. During the last 5-6 months my training has shifted more towards parkour or MovNat than traditional weightlifting or calisthenics. I believe that movement skills are far more practical than raw strength.

In the future I'm planning to start lifting weights, however it will probably be kettlebell or clubbell training.

[efisgpr]

Tom, Tom, Tom. Please just go lift weights. That is all.

[efisgpr]

do your strength work FIRST! (you're welcome)



[efisgpr]

0:28 "sprint"?!!??!!! Wow, please go lift some weight. You will be amazed at the potential you tap into.

A little tip: for strength, pick a weight you can do 1-5 times, for mass, 6-14, for muscular endurance &/or recovery, 15-30(sometimes 31-50 or even 51-100).

Look up Charles Poliquin NOW.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

The whole small reps for mass and higher reps for endurance is a simplistic and fallacious concept. And even according to this concept you're completely wrong since 6-12 reps are still (even according to this ridicolous notions) in the hypertrophy and resistance range and not endurance. 1-5 don't build anything. I have seen people doing the Rippetoe 5x5 stuff and they just got fat and not anymore strength than they could have been with whatever other higher reps program

[efisgpr]

@OvoPiano

@OvoPiano COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG. A weight you can lift 1-5x will build serious strength by working the high-threshold motor units. This will serve to build up the contractile proteins a lot. You obviously are not a pro. I am. Just read and learn. The strongest people work with singles, doubles and triples mostly. Try it. You will see. Complimenti per il tuo inglese, pero'.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

What you say is not wrong, just not as straight cut as you'd like us to believe. There are several studies that show that even running while on a caloric deficit produce muscle legs hypetrophy. So the body is smarter than us and all our math and precise numbers, which we have been using for just a very short fragment of our history and it can adapt and overlap a lot better than we give it credit for. There are very strong people who don't train the way you suggest.

[efisgpr]

@OvoPiano NOT NEARLY as strong as those who DO train the way I say. ANY world class weight lifter is gonna use what i'm talking about. ANY athlete who wants higher relative strength (strength-to-weight ratio) as well--including sprinters. THAT is why this guy can barely sprint in this video. I could basically tell you his squat 1RM just by watching. It is quite low compared to where it could be in just a year of adding some iron to his regimen. Do yourself a favor and read some Charles Poliquin.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

grazie dei complimenti :D

[efisgpr]

@OvoPiano Non c'e' di che.

[glblankenship1]

place is beautiful...great workout

[pmuellerblue22]

Incredible stuff - and a beautiful setting.

[robdibbles]

lol @ 2:25. all tranquill w/ nature

[gvidguy]

dude.

[jjkrmain]

Good work out. Beautiful place. Nice music. Everything just flows as life should.

[Dankydooodle]

awesome workout man. love the scnenery. like to see people starting to go back to nature and getting out of gyms for workouts.

[apensiil]

labrit  from estonia :)

[GreenwaldTom]

tere from Latvia :)

[datrealhyphydeal]

where is this at??? what state?

[GreenwaldTom]

I'm from Latvia.

[RFrankB]

@GreenwaldTom It's sooooo beautiful!

[pedroaguiaromundo]

all good but the stretching, but all very good!!

[ShoreScout]

Very cool -- way better than gym workouts.. One thing though .. You should not bounce in your stretch - stretch slowly. Otherwise very good IMO>

[GreenwaldTom]

Thanks! Yeah, way better than gym :)

I usually do my stretching really slowly and carefully but this could have been better, I agree.

[IvanDrago187]

A light bouncing for a pre warm up stretch or dynamic stretching exercises is a perfectly fine thing to do. This mimics the type of real world mix of strength and flexibility demands on the muscle. Flexibility exercises to actually increase your range of motion should be performed after your workout, preferably later in the evening as a separate training session, using isometric stretches. Isometric stretching before a workout however could be dangerous and hurt performance.

[efisgpr]

@ShoreScout HAHA. WRONG! This is way worse than a professionally designed workout---yes, even in a gym. And you're WRONG about the stretching.

Look, Tom, learn about dynamic warm ups. Then do static stretching AFTER your workouts. There are many reasons for this, supported by tons of studies. Just take my word for it. Also, for the love of god, look up Charles Poliquin (among others).

[ShoreScout]

@efisgpr -- Right!!? -- I'd rather be in the gym working out with roidheads who know it all and tell everyone how efin great they are.. No thanks.. I'll take a good run in the woods by myself.. I was always taught not to bounce to avoid ligament injury. So show me the physiological explanation of why it's good to bounce in a stretch.. I want to know.

[efisgpr]

@ShoreScout It's in a million journals. We are way past the research stage on dynamic warm ups. What you are talking about is ballistic stretching, and, yes, it is stupid. I was talking about dynamic warm ups. Just for clarification.

Not everyone lifting weights is around 'roid heads. This guy could even fashion his own implements. Point is, once you can do 15 or 20 push ups, you are gaining muscular endurance (mitochondrial density and capillary density, mostly). Not strength. Period.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

you're wrong, higher volume is greatly underestimated in building strength and muscles, resistance is resistance and the only way to just train muscle endurance is going very fast, but if you're slow in your movements you are creating resistance and challenging the muscles to become bigger and stronger. If that wasn't the cause every human on earth would be weak since both dumbbell/barbells, rep max, sets and reps are recent inventions and humans kept fit the way this guy's doing it

[efisgpr]

@OvoPiano that IS the case that most humans on earth ARE very very weak compared to olympic lifters, etc. Look up Charles Poliquin. You will never, ever know as much as he does. He agrees with me 100%. These are the principles used to train the best bodybuilders, olympic lifters, Olympic athletes of all types, pro athletes, etc. You have no clue.

[OvoPiano]

@efisgpr

bodybuilders rarely train that way, since the low volume stuff is indeed better for strenght but not for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and mass. In fact the 5x5 of Rippetoe works at most for skinny teenagers but no one else and all people using it just became fat and looking nothing like a bodybuilder. Since we're suggesting books I suggest you "The Gymnastic Body" by Christopher Sommers. His athletes are stronger than bodybuilders and train only with bodyweight and high volume

[efisgpr]

@OvoPiano I'm NOT TALKING ABOUT bodybuilders, as I am WELL AWARE that they aren't the strongest people. In fact, they're not even strength athletes at all! You keep bringing up Rippetoe as well, but that program is incredibly remedial. Once again, I'm not talking about bodybuilders. I have no clue where you got that from. Bodybuilders are approximately 2/3 as strong as they could be. I know all about that. I am only saying this man should focus on lifting for huge gains in climbing, running, etc

[Radminster]

Nu baigais nazis tu esi ;)

Piecas zvaigznes :)

[QUINGEANS27]

u really need to work on ur sprinting form haha!!

[urbanbluegrass]

Great workout, beautiful scenery, I love it. Thanks for sharing!

[SoupBone22]

Somebody get the kid a set of dumbbells. Jesus that workout looks lame.

[crassedefrein]

the place is so cool!!!... best place to train ever! great vid!

[asklyar]

Really nice place to live, looks amazing and working out in nature. btw, I assume you speak russian since you're latvian?

[GreenwaldTom]

I don't understand what the language has to do with my video.

But, I am Latvian and I speak Latvian. We have our own language, you know. Latvia is not a russian province, although here are a lot of them.

Thanks for the comment about the workout, though.

[utmost11]

ill bet that place looks amazing covered in snow

[TDosen19]

Absolutely love the workout. Great music and love the simplicity and the fact its outdoors in nature with beautiful scenery.

[GreenwaldTom]

Thanks for your comments. I really appreciate it.

[HarlandBock]

Great workout, with some music that's pleasant and not annoying like many videos.

[youtwo485]

Nicely done strong man!

You live in such a beautiful area, lucky!

Grok on :)

[OzBlog]

Wicked. Nicely done!

[dmg555]

nice job on the video. I think it captures the essence of a primal exercise approach

[joeeverett87]

i love the enviroment man....ur workout is very simple..and KICKASS no need for a HUGE OVER THE MILL gym membership, get fresh air , out in nature and bust ur ass and enjoy mother earth while keeping fit and eating her fresh food...awesome bro, LOVE THE VID! GREAT stretches too

[banstee]

Where do you live? It's gorgeous!

[GreenwaldTom]

Thanks! I live in Latvia. A small country located in the North-Eastern part of Europe.

[zenkahuna]

A well-rounded environmental workout. Liked the slippery tree climb.