Its an excerpt from Kurt Angle’s training log when he was training for the 1996 Olympic games. Think of this next time you’re tired!
"He’d squat 400-odd pounds 28 times … after squatting 315 pounds 44 times and 225 pounds 73 times and 135 pounds 149 times … after running six miles … after running dozens of wind sprints while carrying his training partner over his back … after charging up a hill, with added resistance, for 2 1/2 minutes.
He did this every day, for every muscle set in his body. He consumed 1,000 calories for breakfast. He set an alarm to eat meals during the night."
[quote]Sonny S wrote:
A workout to be appreciated…
Its an excerpt from Kurt Angle’s training log when he was training for the 1996 Olympic games. Think of this next time you’re tired!
"He’d squat 400-odd pounds 28 times … after squatting 315 pounds 44 times and 225 pounds 73 times and 135 pounds 149 times … after running six miles … after running dozens of wind sprints while carrying his training partner over his back … after charging up a hill, with added resistance, for 2 1/2 minutes.
He did this every day, for every muscle set in his body. He consumed 1,000 calories for breakfast. He set an alarm to eat meals during the night."[/quote]
I’m with Charles on this one. Tom Platz, who trained legs harder than anyone who’s ever lived (and had the wheels to proove it!) did squat 500lbs for 23 reps and that’s considered to be one of the greatest squatting feat of all times (at the time Platz could also back squat 635lbs for 12 reps).
Granted 500lbs is more than 400lbs, but that was a stand alone feat. Not after a nonesense workout like Angle supposedly did.
Consider that Platz was built to squat compared to Angle who’s taller and has longer legs. So basically we should believe that Angle was almost as good as the guy who basically squatted for his living? I doubt it!
Not to take anything away from Angle though. He used to/is a great athlete. But let’s be realistic for a moment!
Now, I doubt that Angle full squatted (Platz did) so that may make the 400lbs x 28 plausible (in fact I’m sure that it’s possible to do by many, but not after the preceding grueling work) but still doubtfull in light of all he did before that set.
As they say, believe none of what you hear and half of what you see!
A possible explanation is that since it was written for the Life section of Angle’s hometown paper, the reporter was probably not particularly good nor was his editor.
Being a Journalism major back in the day, I know that people who write these fluff articles generally are freelance (for a reason), interns, or just got hired from the Palookaville Post.
Maybe it was an excerpt from a week or month’s training log and the reporter didn’t understand that or didn’t mention it.
Re: faking it, that’s an enormous disrespect to Angle, whose athletic accomplishments are amazing and well-documented. He is known for an intense and ferocious work ethic and for sacrificing his body just to get better.
(Also his workout regime has never been discussed or played up by the WWE)
He has broken his neck twice, had 6 knee surgeries, torn ankle ligaments and other injuries as a result, and is at a point where he has trouble playing with his infant daughter.
Even his fellow professional wrestlers consider him to be insane and want him to retire!
When pro wrestlers think there’s something wrong with you…Wow.
Sonny, I think that either yourself or where ever you got the information from misinterpreted the information about Kurt Angle’s training.
He wouldn’t squat the 400+ lbs after doing the previous weights. He would alternate weekly between his squat weights and just do max repetitions. Coming from his book he wrote about his life, he said he’d squat 225, and the highest reps he ever got was 77. Another week, he’d do 315 and the highest he got there was 41. Following week was 405 and the highest was 28. And he’d drop to 135 another week and got 136 for his max reps.
I’m sure he wasn’t hitting those max reps for those weights each week, those were his personal bests he claims. For all we know he could be exaggerating with the numbers a bit but i dont see much of a point in him doing that. I believe he’d train weights in the evening. He said that he’d do the hills and partner carrying drills that you talked about along with other added resistance running drills in the morning. Then mat skills and wrestling in the afternoon and weight training at night.
He specifical worked for fatigue training since he was always a lighter heavyweight for wrestling. He definately deserves a lot of credit for his training and accomplishments, but how it was stated in your first thread Sonny was definately out there and hard to believe. But that was an honest mistake. Hope my information helped out.