Your Fountain of Youth

God bless you all.

A quick one today . If you don’t know who Milo Steinborn is you’re probably new to the hardcore iron game. An old timer and probably the reason we all do serious back squats today. A German who came to America after being in a prison camp and became one of the preeminent lifters of early last century. Pioneered the squat styles of the Olympic lifts, was monster-strong and was one of the first to demonstrate the kind of over-all muscular strength you can get from prolonged heavy back squats. This is the days before squat racks so for his squats he simply up-ended the barbell, rocked it onto his shoulders and squatted from there with 550lbs for three reps.

It’s also said that he once squatted 330 pounds for 33 reps on a bet with famous millionaire J. Paul Getty. He went on to become a celebrated professional wrestler the rest of his life up into his 70’s. They say for exhibitions at wrestling matches they would carry a 400+lb barbell to the ring which he would promptly rock up onto his shoulders and squat for reps just to toy with the crowd. In an article written about him in MILO a few years ago, his son said he kept coming back to the squat over and over again throughout his life, building himself up. It was his fountain of youth.

No matter where you are in your training, squats have a big place. Whether you do them like the Hindus with hgih-rep bodyweight style or JC Hise 20-rep breathing rep style or multiple heavy singles, or some crazy combination of all of it like me… it’s a foundational exercise. The squat and whatever form of deadlift you prefer are the foundational exercises that will tell how big and strong you’ll get. Coming back tot hem over and over again over a lifetime is what makes a true ironman and continues to build your health, vitality and strength over a lifetime.

Are your squats on course right now? It doesn’t have to be insanely heavy all of the time. In fact switching around from time to time and focusing on different styles of squat will have a greater overall training benefit and will prolong your lifting career. It will teach you about yourself inside and out and give you a hormonal kick in the butt to get new muscle growing.

Get squattin’!!

If you want to know more about how to squat the right way, how to take your muscular destiny in hand and really jack your squat up hundreds of pounds you should have our book and DVD, “How To Squat 900lbs.”