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Grease the Groove — The Russian Military Secret to Strength Endurance
This training program is very different than what you’re used to.
There are thousands of weight training programs, but almost all of them rely on the same shared techniques.
First, they almost all focus on lifting heavy weights. In a typical weightlifting plan, it’s rare that you will ever work with a weight that you can lift more than 20 times.
Second, these plans generally have you train a given movement or muscle group once or twice a week. Sometimes you’ll train that muscle group three times a week, but nobody ever asks you to train that group more than once in a single day.
Most of all, the thousands of workout plans share a common goal of making you tired. To get in shape, you have to push yourself. You need to sweat. Get fatigued. No pain, no gain.
The Grease the Groove program is completely different. This style of training breaks all of these rules. You lift light weights, you always stop before you get tired, and you train multiple times a day. Often you train more than 10 times a day.
Sound crazy? Sure. But it works. This style of training is popular with some of the world’s most elite trainers and military special operators.