I Replaced My Entire Workout With These 3 1950s Soviet Exercises

Back in the ’70s, an older weightlifting fellow showed me a few drills he said came out of the Soviet lifting system, and I remember thinking they looked too plain to replace a proper bodybuilding workout. One of the younger boys in our garage laughed at all the squatting, pulling, and overhead work until a few months later the old fellow was still moving weights the rest of us had to talk ourselves into. The lesson wasn’t that the Soviets had three magical exercises, but that simple compound movements, practiced hard and often enough to get technically good at them, could train an awful lot of muscle without an awful lot of equipment. That’s real training knowledge every old lifter understood in one form or another, long before the internet found a way to put a monthly fee on it. #OldSchoolBodybuilding #SeniorFitness #GoldenEra #StrengthTraining #FitnessOver60 #SovietTraining