Mountaindog Training

Have you read everything you could on training and listened to what the big guys at the gym tell you to do, follow it to a t, and find yourself making no gains? This is what John Meadows claims happened to him for many years. The creator of Mountaindog Training knew that he didn't have the genetics for a huge and muscular body like the ones we see who compete professionally today, so he needed to find another way of training that worked with his body. This man is a visionary because he doesn't believe in typical lifts such as bench pressing, squatting, deadlifting, or shoulder pressing because they have never worked to build his body the way that they were supposed to. This is when he started playing around with different motions and inventing new lifts to target the muscle different than any lift had before.

Apart from using new exercises that will shock your body and various additional techniques (hard contractions, slow descents of weight, partial repetitions), he believes in starting with a moderate amount of volume and slowly increasing over a few weeks to progressively higher volume.

Here is a typical arm workout that he puts his clients through.



I recently found out about this training style because he is a well respected poster on one of the fitness forums I frequent. He is very active online and gives out a ton of information and is always willing to answer any question regarding his training and dieting methods. In addition, he writes articles for T-Nation and has his own Youtube channel that he uses to demonstrate the various lifts that he creates. These videos just give you an example of some of the unique lifts that he incorporates into a clients
regiment.



John Meadows is a national level amateur bodybuilder and believes that through hard work and the right kind of innovations and tweaks to one's lifting styles, anybody can improve beyond what their previous bests were through these training techniques. He is also very well versed on diet and has an atypical approach to dieting for bodybuilders. Health is his number one concern and the way he diets reflects that. John believes that a body will perform much better if it is healthy. For the purposes of this project, I won't go into depth on his dieting approach but more information can be found on his website, Mountaindogdiet.com.