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Bodyweight Training – The Dreaded 8 Count Bodybuilders

Bodyweight Training – The Dreaded 8 Count Bodybuilders

Why are so many people afraid of the dreaded 8-count bodybuilder? Because they are a brutal bodyweight exercise that has been used in the military by Elite Navy Seals.

I have read and purchased many books on military training in every part of the military. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, and they all show the 8 count bodybuilder exercise as one of the exercises that helps them get in great shape.

But one book, a Navy Seal training manual, talks about how every Friday they would have to do 1×100 of this brutal exercise. And how the Seals hated it, I read this many years ago when I was transitioning from weight training to bodyweight training.

I thought how hard could it be? The first time I did it, I handled 60 of these bodybuilders and thought I’d never do it again. But, there was no way for that to happen. I was on my own mission to do 100 in 10 minutes and I did it.

Which made me want to know more about these and the fact that the author of the book omitted the dreaded 8 counts out of the exercise section because of how brutal they are. I like that. If he left it out because he hated them, he wanted to make them.

Many years have passed and I still do them and it’s still quite a feat to hit 100 in under 10 minutes. The best was 600 in 1 hour and 100 in less than 15 minutes using a 40 pound vest.

These are tough workouts and the exercise will work your entire body pretty hard. I have combined 8 counts with bodyweight squats and also used a combo using bodybuilders and a jump rope, both of which are amazing fat burning and strength building exercises.

If you only managed 50 of these beasts, the average man would not be average. Anyone who is a little skeptical scroll through some right now and see how many you can get in 1 minute or 2 minutes. I think he will be surprised.

The only drawback is that most people will never do them as a regular part of their training, and the reason is that they are very demanding. You can be like everyone else and do everyone else’s workouts; You know the workouts designed by the average man for the average man.

Do you want to be elite? You train and do the exercises with which the elite train!

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