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Hey everyone. I do not start that many threads. So I decided to put together a little quiz. Why? I don't know, it just popped into my head. The answers are interesting and fun. (and possibly not common knowledge) That and I am giving myself something to do. :D

If you know the answers, post them. If you don't know the answers, guess. The goal is fun and to start some interesting exercise related discussion.

1. Why is traditional periodization based on 4 week cycles?

2. When did research in creatine and glutamine begin?

3. Who was the first to successfully use the box squat?

4. How were the original glute ham raises done?

5. What is the story of Milo generally used to describe progressive overload?
 
I'm taking a stab in the dark here.


1. Why is traditional periodization based on 4 week cycles?

Adaptation has been shown to significantly increase after 4 weeks.



2. When did research in creatine and glutamine begin?

1961 in Mother Russia



3. Who was the first to successfully use the box squat?

Louie Simmons and his crew of Velociraptors.



4. How were the original glute ham raises done?

A partner would hold someone's ankles and the individual performing the exercise would raise themselves over a platform.

5. What is the story of Milo generally used to describe progressive overload?


Milo is Italian for Prometheus, the Greek god who gave fire to man, and was thus forced to be chained to a rock for eternity while buzzards ate his liver as his punishment. Since Milo is a god, he heals everyday, however, he is not without pain. And everyday, the vultures come again to eat his liver.

Well, Milo, being forced to endure such pain day in and day out, began to adapt. As the days passed, Milo felt less and less pain. Sure, it hurt like hell, but it was nothing like when he originally began the endeavor. Since the the vultures did the same thing everyday, Milo was becoming conditioned. If the vultures were to eat, say, his kidneys or his intestines, it would hurt a whole lot. But they were only interested in his liver. How fortunate for him that because he did not recieve any new stimulus, he did not suffer anything new. He would stay at relatively the same pain threshold, or the same place, if you will, for eternity.

The vultures, however, were well fed on a god's high protein, high iron content liver. Because the liver had magical properties, they were able to maintain a bulk while putting on little, if any, fat. They hit the gym every night after feasting on Milo's liver to hit new PR's almost weekly. By loading themselves with more and more weight, progressively, they were able to become stronger and stronger.

Eventually the vultures became too yolked to fly around and Milo was stuck, chained to a rock, for eternity, soaking up rays. Eternity didn't seem too long to Milo, who soon only wanted to cool drink and maybe a magazine to read. Anything but Flex, thought Milo.
 
Hey thanks for answering Lei. You are the awesome.

I will furnish the answers after a few more people take a stab at it. :cool:

Milo is Italian for Prometheus, the Greek god who gave fire to man, and was thus forced to be chained to a rock for eternity while buzzards ate his liver as his punishment. Since Milo is a god, he heals everyday, however, he is not without pain. And everyday, the vultures come again to eat his liver.

Well, Milo, being forced to endure such pain day in and day out, began to adapt. As the days passed, Milo felt less and less pain. Sure, it hurt like hell, but it was nothing like when he originally began the endeavor. Since the the vultures did the same thing everyday, Milo was becoming conditioned. If the vultures were to eat, say, his kidneys or his intestines, it would hurt a whole lot. But they were only interested in his liver. How fortunate for him that because he did not recieve any new stimulus, he did not suffer anything new. He would stay at relatively the same pain threshold, or the same place, if you will, for eternity.

The vultures, however, were well fed on a god's high protein, high iron content liver. Because the liver had magical properties, they were able to maintain a bulk while putting on little, if any, fat. They hit the gym every night after feasting on Milo's liver to hit new PR's almost weekly. By loading themselves with more and more weight, progressively, they were able to become stronger and stronger.

Eventually the vultures became too yolked to fly around and Milo was stuck, chained to a rock, for eternity, soaking up rays. Eternity didn't seem too long to Milo, who soon only wanted to cool drink and maybe a magazine to read. Anything but Flex, thought Milo.
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:rofl: That is one of the best stories I have ever read. Awesome. (not exactly what I was looking for, but one of the greatest stories in recent times :D)
 
Yeah, that story kicked ass

Ever thought about re-writing the Bible? That book seriously didn't live up to it's revews
 
LeiYunFat said:
I'm taking a stab in the dark here.


1. Why is traditional periodization based on 4 week cycles?

Adaptation has been shown to significantly increase after 4 weeks.



2. When did research in creatine and glutamine begin?

1961 in Mother Russia



3. Who was the first to successfully use the box squat?

Louie Simmons and his crew of Velociraptors.



4. How were the original glute ham raises done?

A partner would hold someone's ankles and the individual performing the exercise would raise themselves over a platform.

5. What is the story of Milo generally used to describe progressive overload?


Milo is Italian for Prometheus, the Greek god who gave fire to man, and was thus forced to be chained to a rock for eternity while buzzards ate his liver as his punishment. Since Milo is a god, he heals everyday, however, he is not without pain. And everyday, the vultures come again to eat his liver.

Well, Milo, being forced to endure such pain day in and day out, began to adapt. As the days passed, Milo felt less and less pain. Sure, it hurt like hell, but it was nothing like when he originally began the endeavor. Since the the vultures did the same thing everyday, Milo was becoming conditioned. If the vultures were to eat, say, his kidneys or his intestines, it would hurt a whole lot. But they were only interested in his liver. How fortunate for him that because he did not recieve any new stimulus, he did not suffer anything new. He would stay at relatively the same pain threshold, or the same place, if you will, for eternity.

The vultures, however, were well fed on a god's high protein, high iron content liver. Because the liver had magical properties, they were able to maintain a bulk while putting on little, if any, fat. They hit the gym every night after feasting on Milo's liver to hit new PR's almost weekly. By loading themselves with more and more weight, progressively, they were able to become stronger and stronger.

Eventually the vultures became too yolked to fly around and Milo was stuck, chained to a rock, for eternity, soaking up rays. Eternity didn't seem too long to Milo, who soon only wanted to cool drink and maybe a magazine to read. Anything but Flex, thought Milo.
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nice GOOGLE WHORING!:p
 
goergen1 said:
Hey everyone. I do not start that many threads. So I decided to put together a little quiz. Why? I don't know, it just popped into my head. The answers are interesting and fun. (and possibly not common knowledge) That and I am giving myself something to do. :D

If you know the answers, post them. If you don't know the answers, guess. The goal is fun and to start some interesting exercise related discussion.

1. Why is traditional periodization based on 4 week cycles?

2. When did research in creatine and glutamine begin?

3. Who was the first to successfully use the box squat?

4. How were the original glute ham raises done?

5. What is the story of Milo generally used to describe progressive overload?
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popquiz! I must have missed every single class. Each of those questins contains a term I do not know. wow....humbling actually.
 
I find it hard to believe that no one has ever thought of squatting down onto a box before Louie. However, he did say "successfully use". Still though, in all the years people have trained I think someone else must have thought of actually doing what the squatting movement basically is (which is sitting down/back onto something)
 
G, you should write an article about "10 things you need to know" or something like that, where you include the important things about weightlifting history. You actually know some of this stuff and I feel like there isn't a lot of resources out there for stuff like this.
You should atleast make a post or something with some good info. It's a shame I do this sport but I have no idea of it's history.

And G, about glute ham raises. Someone holding your ankles and you just doing the leg curl part of the GHR, that's not a real GHR is it? that's just a BW leg curl.. don't you have to include the back extension part of the movement before you can actually say it's a GLUTE ham raise?
 
Someone holding your ankles and you just doing the leg curl part of the GHR, that's not a real GHR is it?
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Nope.

that's just a BW leg curl.. don't you have to include the back extension part of the movement before you can actually say it's a GLUTE ham raise?
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hhhhhhhmmmmmmm.......... ;)

G, you should write an article about "10 things you need to know" or something like that, where you include the important things about weightlifting history.
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I have actually thought about that. We will see what the future brings. :D
 
I doubt they had any fancy machine for it when they first did the movement. maybe they did it on somekind of roman chair thing that was already used for back extensions. I mean, new exercises are often born as variations of existing ones (now I don't know which one of those came first, but you catch my drift)
I have long thought of wedging my legs under the smith bar, elevated on something so I could do a back extension then a BW leg curl, which would be a glute ham raise, maybe they did something like this.. or perhaps with a person holding them down (since I have a feeling the smith machine came after the glute ham raise)
 
^^^^^ You are headed in the right direction. :D

I will provide all of the answers tonight when I get back from dinner. So stay tuned. (and keep working things out. You will get closer than you think)
 
it could be I need to get out of the whole gym setting.. it's hard to know when I don't know anything of the time.. for all I know it could be a time when they didn't have gyms and they just ledged some random guy over the edge of a cliff, held his ankles back and down towards the rock and had him do GHRs while looking down at certain death.. that would be friggin hard-awsome-Koreness! :D

and the box squat, I think Simmons popularized it, could someone who was before him in Westside Barbell have used it successfully first? George Frenn perhaps? I've heard somewhere he was among the first who started training with box squats.
In the 60s and 70s Bill West and Frenn were breaking a lot of records, and they used box squats, so it could be him too.
You'd think that if box squatting was taken from outside Westside Barbell they would have credited it, as I don't think they are guys who steals ideas and makes it their own.

I googled it and found some random forum post where a guy posted that a Sweedish friend of his had found a manual from the 50s at a polish training facility demonstrating the box squat. So it could be from around then/there

Finding the oregin of an exercise is pretty much an impossible tast, since you never know if some random Viking from 1000 years ago did it and didn't keep a training log in his internet blog. It's easier to find who used it successfully though, since that usually gets recorded (it would even have gotten recorded if it was pretty long ago I suspect, since strong people have been talked about, written about and carved into stone about for a long time)
 
That's what I meant with the GHR's...someone holds the other guy down while he goes off a platform...or cliff :p

Box squatting's father was...Eugene Sandow!

As for "Google whoring"...the only thing I googled was how to spell Louie's name :)
 
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