"It Just Took One Workout to Understand..."

Bulgarian Training Bags

As you can probably tell, I don't limit myself to just "one" style of training, instead, I take bits a pieces from many different areas in order to come up with my own "style."

Along those lines, I view every sport as a combat sport, so much of my training comes from exercises that have always been popular with wrestlers and boxers – and this is how I stumbled upon the Bulgarian Training Bags.

It was a little less than a year ago when we made them available and now they are more popular than ever.

Sure, plenty of wrestling teams and clubs have ordered them from us, but so have police academies, military bases, MMA Athletes and even a couple D-I college football
teams.

Not bad company!

Anyhow, being that I actually "train" – and train with the equipment that I feature, I know just how valuable and effective it can be – and I wouldn't make any of it available otherwise.

Fortunately a lot of people "get" what I am trying to promote, heres someone who certainly gets it now:

John, I just got my 27lb bag two days ago. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to train. All I can say about this training bag is WOW!

At first upon seeing and handling the bag I was thinking "how is this little thing gonna do anything" but I banished any negative thinking and decided to go all out and see what I could do with it.

I did the "upper body" exercises on the DVD. I did 3 sets of 10 to 15 reps, or as much as I could do if I couldn't get 10. It's been QUITE awhile since I've been so exhausted from a workout that I could not physically undress myself to go shower, but this thing managed it. I could not lift my arms above my head and feel now (two days later) like I've been hit by a Mack truck.

My abs, forearms, shoulders, tris, obliques, neck and hams are all screaming. My wife tried it last night and she just called me saying how sore she was, she loves it. I'm going to use this for a full body workout once a week in addition to my normal lifting. Thanks for introducing people to products that actually work! I'm ordering the TRX bodyweight system next.

Thanks again. I emailed now cause I'm getting ready to go do "lower body" and might not be able to drag myself back to the PC today. haha.
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Casey Blackburn

CB, I know exactly what you're talking about – it happened to me too. Don't know if you caught it but the University of Iowa just won the NCAAs last weekend – Last fall, Tom Brands, the head wrestling coach And a damn good wrestler in his own right, ordered some Bulgarian Bags for his team.

A few months back, Ivan's Greco-Roman team took home the World Championship for the first time ever – every competitive Greco-Roman wrestler in the United States is currently training with Ivan's Bags.

The bottom line is that when you train with Ivan's Bulgarian Training Bags, you are training just like some of the best – and toughest – athletes on the planet.

After just one workout, Casey now knows the value of this kind of
training. You can too:

Ivan Ivanov's Bulgarian Training Bags

As Ive mentioned before, we have all size sin stock and ready to ship Asap, however, I recommend starting with the "Medium" – yes, it's a lot tougher than you think…

Imagine where you'll be after a few months of this kind of training...

Train hard,
John Wood

My New Dumbbell

My New Dumbbell
I mentioned last week that I was heading down to Toledo to pick up a custom dumbbell... Here it is: a plate-loaded Inch Dumbbell Trainer.

I've always enjoyed lifting thick-handled dumbbells.

Let me tell you about this one" you see, some folks has tried to make thick-handled dumbbells in the past and use a technique called "sleeving" where gradually larger pieces of pipe are welded over top of each other.

In most cases, that works just fine, but the issue with the Inch Dumbbell is that that the "real" Inch Dumbbell has a handle 2-3/8 inches in diameter while pipe only comes in 2 inches or 2-1/2 inches diameter. They also tend to make the handle area too narrow which ends up banging against the wrist, which isn't a good feeling at all.

In any case, this dumbbell is made of one solid piece of stainless steel. We took a 2-1/2 inch diameter length and lathed the handle down to the required 2-3/8 inches exactly. The plate-loading area was further lathed down to 1.95 inches to all plates will fit, and each section is 8" long, leaving plenty of room for my hand, as well as the plates.

Needless to say, this one's a work of art.

I don't plan on making these available as an ongoing product but if the demand is great enough, we will just have to see. I sense a lot of good workouts with this one...