Got a pretty interesting email the other day.
This guy had seen that my new “Body Armor – The 2nd Chapter” had finally been released (and is flying off the virtual shelves, I might add), and noted that if you grab the ‘deluxe’ package, you get a “Home Version” of the program.
(Meaning you could do the entire program with nothing but dumbbells or kettlebells and a pullup bar if you wanted to.)
He was puzzled b/c he thought that you had to go to the gym and lift barbells in order to get big and strong and powerful. After all, take a look at most of the big and strong and powerful dudes you see – pretty much all of them are lifting heavy-ass barbells.
And this *is* true. BUT, here’s the thing…
Your body honestly has NO CLUE what you’re using as resistance when you work out. All it knows is that it has to produce force in a given direction(s) for a given number of times (i.e. – reps).
It doesn’t know if you’re lifting a barbell or a dumbbell or a kettlebell or a rock or a sandbag or the annoying kid from down the street. All it knows is that you’re lifting something.
So all that means is that you gotta reproduce the same kinda conditions – heavy weight, the right volume and density, and such.
All you have to do is get a little resourceful. Most of the time, you can just do a DB (or KB) version of the barbell lift. Sometimes, to still keep it heavy, you might have to lift one arm at a time or one leg at a time. That kinda thing.
And certain types of training won’t lend themselves real well to DBs or KBs – working up to a new RM is a perfect example. But that’s no problem – there are several types of other set and rep schemes that are just as beneficial, and much better suited to DBs or KBs.
But you wanna know the cool thing? You really don’t have to worry about *any* of that. Because if you pick up “Body Armor – The 2nd Chapter”, I’ve already thought about all that for you….AND given you all the solutions.
All you gotta do is show up and work your ass off. Leave the thinking to me.