Ursus Minor

Bigger Stronger Leaner Powerlifting & Strength Sports
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OK, in the past two days i have seen two different guys at my gym doing a variant of The Bear but without the front squat. now, this is a gym where i rarely even see anyone else doing deadlifts, so there is more than coincidence here. Instinct tells me that one of the newsstand mags had this exercise featured this month and its killing me to figure out where these dopes have seen it. don’t get me wrong, i’m not discouraging it. but, these are not guys who have been doing power movements for years.

anyone come across the source?

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Funny you mention it, about 2 weeks ago one of my old college professors asked me if I had ever heard of this new exercise complex called the bear. It must be somewhere out there in ghostdawg land.

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The Bear is a variation on Istvan Javorek’s Big Fun complex, and has been around for years. Javorek had an article outlining it in Muscle and Fitness in the 1990’s.

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The “bear” as well as Coach Davies received a mention in June 2003 Men’s Health.

Someone else must have covered it recently though.

Brian