How did these bronze era guys train? What was their split?

>>76380617 (OP)
You can literally google it retard-kun

>>76380617 (OP)
They didn't have splits. Eugen Sandow trained his entire body every session. He trained almost every day and did a lot of compound movements.

>>76380617 (OP)
This is my ideal aesthetic. These guys never look particularly impressive. But you can tell that their strength has no shortcuts: no supplements, no injections, no gimmicks or contraptions. Just discipline and conditioning. Before the era of social media. Before workout DVDs and before the advent of Hollywood. No tattoos or false machismo. It's pure masculinity.

>>76380617 (OP)
From what I understand, their primary barbell work was lifting heavy off the ground, and lifting heavy over head.

So, lots of deadlifts, cleans, snatches, presses, jerks. One hand and two hand.

Probably did a lot of gymnastic movements as well. Horizontal bar, parallel bar, and floor.

>>76380664
Also, although i said barbell, they would have used lots of different implement. Barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells etc.

They prioritised muscle control, using lightweight dumbbells for very high reps, focusing on contracting the target muscle as hard as possible, while relaxing the antagonist muscles as much as possible
The purpose of the dumbbells is not to make the weight hard to lift, it's to help you activate the target muscle

>>76380676
Lol what a bunch of bullshit. Yeah do doing 100 reps per set and with 5kg and you will grow, sure

>>76380617 (OP)
They were the peak genetics of the era and just did compounds. Why did they achieve better physiques than the rest? Bodybuilding wasn't as popular and they had a predisposition because of great genetics for it

>>76380617 (OP)
They did the movements they liked best and often into failure or 1 or 2 reps in reserve if big movement.

>>76380617 (OP)
most of the bronze era lifters were insanely rich and had time to rest and train.
George hackenschmidts advice for training is literally train to failure regularly and rest often, eat animals, avoid supermarket foods if you can.
These people had time to train like this because they were rich

>>76380701
>eat animals
eat game animals
like deer, moose, etc.
and to avoid store bought stuff

>>76380664
>>76380669
This seems reasonable

>>76380693
Yeah they likely didn't take pictures of dyels or ugly people as much back in the days. Even if people were healthier in general tho.

>>76380701
george hackenschmidt even talks about in his book how he got groomed by a russian wrestler into being who he became
and i dont mean groomed in the sense of some discord faggot shit.
george was literally recruited because some russian doctor/wrestler saw a lot of potential in him.
He provided george with fresh meals daily, a private gym, wrestling training partners, the works. the guy quite literally wanted him to focus on his weightlifting, body building and wrestling careers

>>76380686
Yeah, you will. Powershitters will deny this but Serge Nubret got his body doing something very similar.

>>76380686
you'll get a lot more intense pump from lifting light for reps than heavy for reps

light for reps = pump so intense you'll be in pain because you're actively going out of your way to pump blood into your muscles

heavy pump = just feeling bulky

>>76380686
I'm only telling you what they wrote, many of them
>they're all liars
Maybe, maybe not

>>76380701
yes, this is the really big secret
you need tremendous amounts of leisure time for pleasurable, stimulating rest that makes you happy.
modern people who look good DO have that, even if they have 9-to-5 jobs, their jobs are mostly playing with toys (computer programming) and socializing (friendly project update meetings) so it's effectively leisure.