King of the Marsh
@KingVelesI • 38,209 subscribers
Cattle and sheep herder. Natural bodybuilder. I post while I herd my livestock. Married to @QueenMokoshI.
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It took my wife 20 hours to make this sweater out of the raw wool of our sheep, and keep in mind, she's still pretty new at this, and getting faster. With a bit of skill, making wool clothing from scratch takes much less time than the internet would have you believe.
King of the Marsh4,510,910 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
This is how you build big hamstrings at home. No equipment needed. Just kneel on a pillow and hook your feet under a piece of heavy furniture. Put additional weight on it if necessary. Building up to a proper Nordic curl without any arm assistance will take a long time, so I recommend the following progression: At first, use your full palms to push yourself off the floor. Once that becomes easy, push with just your fingertips. Then, start subtracting fingers one by one. The fewer fingers you use, the less your arms will be able to help. I'm currently down to using just my thumbs, and feel I'm getting close to getting my first unassisted Nordic curl. For fast progress, do four sets of ten reps every other day. Use your arms only as much as you need to help you complete the movement. The last reps should be hard and slow ("grinders"). Final note: You can also do this exercise by having a training partner hold your ankles down or sit on your heels, but I don't recommend this, as that makes you dependent on another person for your training, and that will mess with your consistency.
King of the Marsh106,014 просмотров • 6 дней назад
"Overhead presses don't hit your side delts; they are a front delt exercise." I used to believe this for many years, and I was wrong. The truth is, overhead presses are a fantastic side delt builder IF you don't let your ego get in the way. You need to resist the urge to lean back and turn the exercise into a standing incline press. Instead, do them seated. Now you have no choice but to keep yourself perfectly upright, or you'll fall over. This will seriously limit the amount of weight you can use, but it'll put a ton of stress (and size) on your side delts.
King of the Marsh81,331 просмотров • 21 дней назад
This is what 14% body fat looks like. I know half the people here think "visible abs = 10% body fat", but that's nonsense. Notice the large "love handle" I'm still sporting. Depending on your fat distribution pattern, you might have visible abs at 20+% body fat. I still have about 3 kg (7 lb) to lose to be at my best, both functionally and aesthetically.
King of the Marsh96,964 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Did you know there is a simple exercise you can do at home and that can build MASSIVE quads? It requires no machine, no special equipment, and little to no additional weight. I would argue sissy squats are better for overall quad hypertrophy than regular squats, as sissy squats heavily stress all four heads of the quadriceps (unlike regular squats which can't stress the rectus femoris head that much). I haven't done a "proper" barbell squat in many years now, as I don't have enough weight for that in my home gym, but as you can see at the end of the clip, my quads are doing well. Be warned, though: high-rep sissy squats BURN. A lot.
King of the Marsh24,409 просмотров • 14 дней назад
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I'm really tired of people here telling me, "I believe you're natural, bro, your shoulders kind of suck.", so I'm training my delts and traps extra hard. As I see it, you're not an advanced natural bodybuilder until you get a "The shoulders don't lie, you're juiced to the eyeballs!".
King of the Marsh30,996 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
This is the most important piece of lifting wisdom I can give you: Plateaus aren't real. If you keep training with enough volume and intensity, you will keep progressing indefinitely, on the exact same routine. Think about it; there is no biological explanation of why a body that is continually subjected to a stress that is near the limit of its ability would suddenly stop adapting to it merely because the stressor is not varied enough. "But everything stops working after a while, and you hit a wall!" Nope. People just expect faster progression than is naturally possible. Adding a tiny bit of weight on the bar every couple of months is an excellent rate of progress that will take you very far if you keep at it for years and resist shiny object syndrome. "Switching things up" is almost always the wrong move. It just makes you waste time as your body adapts to the new approach, and that is time you could've spent pushing your limits; the limits your old routine was already pushing, which is exactly why you were progressing slowly on it. Your new routine, on the other hand, makes you "progress" fast because what you're seeing is not real progress, but merely acclimation. You need to ask yourself what the point is: maintaining the illusion of progress to keep yourself happy, or actually building strength and muscle.
King of the Marsh12,960 просмотров • 11 дней назад
"Bodybuilding doesn't build functional strength!" Sorry, "functional strength" bros, but that silly cope of yours doesn't hold up in the real world. There is no functional and non-functional strength — strength is, by definition, functional, and the strength developed through dedicated bodybuilding training can be applied to any strenuous task. Physiologically, the only way to significantly increase a muscle's strength is to make it bigger. Especially when natural lifters are concerned, hypertrophy IS strength.
King of the Marsh211,280 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
What separates the truly disciplined from everyone else? Everybody can adhere to a discipline while everything's fine and dandy, and nothing unpredictable happens. But, a truly disciplined person knows that the real test of discipline is sticking to it when everything goes to hell. Your most important workout will be the one you improvise at home when the gym was unexpectedly closed; Your most important practice session will be the one you put in when you're stressed and exhausted because everything went wrong at work; Your most important day of working on your business will be the one when you show up in spite of just having had your heart broken. "But you have to be flexible!" Deciding you'll go to the gym later than usual because you had to work overtime is being flexible. Deciding you'll skip the gym altogether because you're "too tired" is not flexibility — it's laziness. Disciplined people understand that discipline is non-negotiable. They understand the value of time, of consistency, of momentum, and that it's far easier to just keep the ball rolling rather than letting it stop and then having to get it rolling again, over and over. Disciplined people DON'T BREAK THE CHAIN.
King of the Marsh191,365 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
Want to become a stronger and faster physical worker? Do lots of heavy curls. Few exercises have so much carryover to all sorts of heavy physical labor, and make heavy stuff feel so light in your hands. When someone tells you curls don't build "functional strength" for real work, you can be 100% sure that they've never actually done any real work.
King of the Marsh14,093 просмотров • 18 дней назад
HOW TO GET RICH BY HERDING LIVESTOCK: 1. Move to a remote area with lots of free pasture. 2. Buy some cattle, sheep, and/or goats of an old and hardy breed. 3. Take your herd on grazing walks every day, feeding them at zero cost. 4. Watch your herd multiply and grow bigger year after year. The bigger it is, the faster it grows. Zero overheads. Everything you produce is pure profit. Keep it up until you've amassed a gigantic herd, and then grow it some more. The crucial part is selecting breeds that are suited to this kind of management. Breeds that have fantastic health and constitution; that require no shelter and live under the open sky all year long; that can graze through thick snow in the winter; and that have no need for vets, medications, or supplements of any kind. Check out the clip: This Highland bull calf was born in the middle of the grazing walk, and was ready to follow his herd home (a trip of several kilometers) a mere TWO HOURS after being born. Seriously, the little dude was already running, jumping, and climbing steep inclines. Crazy! 😄
King of the Marsh119,699 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
Nothing triggers the leftist more than the sight of one who is healthy, beautiful, and capable. Of one who is not, like him, estranged from nature, but in harmony with it. The leftist can't help but feel inferior and resentful. He is incapable of being inspired to better himself, so all he can do is hate and seethe. Hate never comes from above. Hate always comes from below.
King of the Marsh24,457 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Day 293 of working out every day and eating only one meal a day. Many people here asked me if I get tired, and yeah, I most definitely do. Since starting this routine, I increased my training volume from 12 daily sets to 31. Just as my body gets used to a certain amount of work, and my fatigue starts to drop off, I increase the volume again, always keeping myself at a level I would describe as "tolerably tired". Many folks will tell you this doesn't work, and that you'll "hit a wall" by training like this, but my tape measure disagrees. The more work I force onto my muscles, the faster they grow, exactly as you'd expect if you'd never had an "expert" tell you about "overtraining". You even learn to like the persistent weariness. It's calming, and makes you feel all peaceful and zen. Much like low-frequency lifters enjoy the feeling of sore muscles, you come to appreciate that slight feeling of "lead" in your body. It tells you you're pushing yourself just enough. By now, the workouts have, of course, lost all novelty. There's little to no excitement involved, no psyching up, no making a big deal out of it. It's just a chore I do twice a day, much like feeding my calves (as in my young cattle, not my lower legs 😄). It's just work. So yeah, I am tired, and it's honestly not that bad. As I see it, being tired from working on your dreams is a privilege. "Do hard things, and be grateful that you can."
King of the Marsh71,004 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
One of the many perks of marrying a black metal girl is that she won't defile your home by putting up a "Live, laugh, love!" poster, or similar junk. Instead, she'll spin some yarn, dig up some sheep bones, and make a badass, 100% farm-sourced piece of wall decor.
King of the Marsh14,807 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
I was forced to sell my home gym when we moved to this farm. There was just no room for it in the tiny cabin. And yet, I've built a much better physique now, by lifting logs, rocks, farm tools, and family members, than I ever did back when I was training with top-of-the-line equipment. Your muscles don't care what you use to overload them. All they care about is volume, intensity, and CONSISTENCY.
King of the Marsh47,340 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад