What Can He Do?

God bless you all. Let us remember today to be grateful for the incredible blessings of being able to indulge in our pass times. Let us remember to be grateful for the basics; walking, talking, simple health, and to live with excitement and passion for the challenges of life and achieving our dreams.

Last week I wrote an email that talked about the first time I met Dennis Rogers in person. The gist of it was how to condition yourself to be strong at any time, day or night, under any circumstances. You can look it up on our blog, it’s worth reading.

As always we get responses to these emails, mostly positive stuff because when we put these emails out we don’t mess around. We believe in giving you solid information on the spiritual, mental and physical, but occasionally you get those letters from people who take issue with something that was written. There are more of these we’ll get to in the next few days. Some in particular that were in response to our email on Memorial Day.

In this particular one we’re talking about today, someone said, “Hey you talk about Dennis with all of this respect, but what has he really done other than these grip tricks?” Because of the rest of what was said in the email, I believe this gentleman actually, seriously wanted to know. However in the past we’ve received very negative emails about people we’ve used as examples in our newsletter. Let me lay some of this to rest for those of you who may have had a passing question.

Everybody we’ve talked about in this newsletter or who writes for this site is a stud. That’s all we recruit. How big a stud? Very big. No other way to go in our barnyard. How about Mike Bruce? Former Marine, amateur and professional no-holds barred fighting champion and nearly 700lb deadlift and 1200lb lockouts at 205 bodyweight.

Pavel Tsatsouline. Father of American Kettlebell lifting, nearly 600lb deadlift at a 180lb bodyweight, as well as incredible strength information. I watched Pavel nearly close a #3 gripper and do a behind the neck handstand pushup in the same day. Both on just a whim.

How about Bryce Lane? Brilliant strength theory, former competitive lifter and creator of some insanely hard bodyweight exercises.

Dave Whitely, huge fitness success story, tremendous down-to-earth training info and has done 1,000 rep snatches with a 16kg kettlebell.

That just names a few of the guys who have written for us or we’ve mentioned in our emails. Serious guys who train hard and produce real results just like you.

This particular gentleman wanted to know about Dennis Rogers. First let me start by saying that what he referred to as, “grip tricks,” ain’t tricks. They aren’t something that just anybody can do or walk off the street and do without serious physical training. There are a couple of grip feats that people have notoriously faked throughout strength history. Phone book tearing and card tearing, but done in a legitimate way without a tampered product or a cheating technique, these are extremely difficult strength feats. All you have to do is watch Dennis to know there’s no faking and no cheating. In fact he goes way beyond what’s necessary to prove that he’s doing a legitimate feat.

The strongman feats of the old timers are legitimate feats. As with everything in the world somebody will come along and find a way to undermine and cheapen what they’ve done to fake or cheat their way through. But there are those who stand above that and perform real feats that require real strength. Dennis is one of those. If he wasn’t we wouldn’t work with him.

But if you can’t get past the issue of it being grip feats, allow me to lay out just a couple of the other more orthodox feats he has done. How about a one finger, one arm chin up? How about one arm preacher curling a 100lb dumbbell for 10 reps and a 120lb dumbbell for one rep all at a bodyweight of 150 or less. How about deadlifting double bodyweight with one finger or doing dips in sets of 80 or handstand pushups in sets of 25.

I’d say those are all things that most people would love to be able to get close to doing and there’s no faking them. We specifically have gone out of our way to prove what we say on this site and when people write for us it’s real people who can teach you something very special and specific about training.

If we write about somebody with respect it’s because they deserve it and you should be paying attention to what they’re saying. When you want to learn how to be the best at something look to the people who are the best at it and the people who’ve worked the hardest along the way to become great at what they do.

All of you have some feat of strength and test of endurance that you can become great at. Everybody has something and you should be looking to develop your own specific talent. Work your strength and become great. Work your weakness to become more than just a normal person.

Never stop working.


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