Is Hardcore Training Dead

  You know I was reading up a little bit on one of my favorite websites ever, Animalpak.com. (Articles found on Bodybuilding.com also at ) I read a little on the gyms of the old days and the hardcore mentality that is obviously lost in today's up and coming bodybuilders and gym goers. What's up with this brothers? I remember when I started training two years ago, we trained for football with three lifts basically squat, bench, and hang cleans. Four sets for each. Oh yeah, it sucked. There wasn't any televisions, radioes, spas, or any of that crap. We had carpet on the floor that smelled of piss, blood, sweat, and other rank smells that are undescribable. Did that stop us? Nope. We had screaming coaches in our ears, one coach in particular was the main one doing the screaming. He didn't baby anybody, nor show partiality. He called you a pussy footed, gutless, no-balls-at-all, coward. Yeah, those words hurt for a upcoming freshman in highschool.   We trained like there was no tomorrow; most of the time, we didn't want to go back to class after that hour or so of training. The gym I go to now, YMCA, is an alright gym around here. It's the only gym that my town has, what can I say? There are some people that come in there with cordinated outfits, nice hairdos, the newest and best brand of pants or shirts that are sold at stores like JCPenny or the mall in general. Makes me sick, these people are not the people I want to see after a hard fought set of squats or deadlifts. Really I don't want to see them at all. Sometimes a guy who is curling the 25s or 30s for a few reps will ask me do I need those dumbbells he's using. What the crap? I tell him, "No, I'm headed for the 45s or 50s." Then I do more reps than he does, and yell, grunt, and do whatever it takes to move the weight. I seriously believe that hardcore is dying in some places, it's quite obvious brothers. When we don't feel like going beyond that pain barrior and training beyond the comfort zone. Think back to Arnold, Franco, Haney, Ferrigno, just a few names that come to mind. They trained balls to the wall, because they were hungry for a win, hungry for victory. Hardcore training worked for them, our generation should keep it alive. Keep it alive, brothers. Keep lifting." title=""> " title="">  " title="">  " title="">   " title="">                              " title="">    " title="">    " title="">   " title="">   " title="">   " title="">   " title=""> " title=""> " title="">           " title="">        " title="">        " title="">                                                             " + ipb.lang['loading'] + "