Somebody smack me for my stupidity in my early days but I used to parouse the pages of www.bodybuilding.com and that is where I first found the 300 workout.
I’m not the most endurance worthy trainee but this kicked my ass witgh ease as I pushed myself to get it done in a sad 28 minutes and is supposed to be nothing but an overall fitness test once in a blue moon.
My guess, would be that the routines that the actual actors from 300 consisted of things like olympic rings, tire flips, sledge hammers and tires and alot of cns training from hell. The big diff between the 300 workout craze thats going around and what they did for work is functionality.
The 300 workout may shock your body into breaking a plateau but there is no real functionality to it. It’s like any other bodybuilding routine that would, in the end be designed to make you stronger, faster and more aerodynamic as they say; it focuses on the individual bodyparts rather than what the actual goal of the actors that trained for nigh 6 months to get their physiques.
Overall body conditioning and functionality. I’m not knocking the crazed 300 workout, for it seems to be the only thing that makes people think they have the potential to get that body.
Thats all well and good if you’ve found confidence in something, but don’t expect it to make you look like the crew from the 300, nor should you ever expect to find their actual routines, there is no way in hell the movie director would let the training coaches of the cast release their “secret formula” to the public.
If any of you should choose to do nothing but that workout and alot of interval training mixed with nothing for food but natural things (meat, farm dairy, veggies and fruits, homemade breads, etc) and actually succeed in an effort to prove me wrong about my post, with pictures mind you,
I will go lay in the middle of the rotary outside my father’s house a few towns over that sees some thousand odd cars a day.