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Post by jonrock on Jun 19, 2019 21:42:05 GMT
Pierini, can you share something about Tommy Kono? Life tips, training tips, mind training, etc... He is my favourite olympic lifter and together with Max Sick my favourite strength guy, I admire them as men and lifters. jonrock, if you visit my Pierini Fitness blog and type in his name in the search box, you’ll find about 5 compositions I wrote devoted to him. Do that first and then I’ll be glad to answer any questions you have. I have lots of photos. There’s a decent DVD available that does a good job of chronicling his life. His wife gave me a copy and I enjoyed viewing it although I knew all the history already. Bruce met him when he came to visit me. We have a great photo together along with others. "It’s better to give than to receive so whatever I have to share, I know someone will appreciate it." “Often I thought to myself, Even if my back breaks I am going to put everything into this attempt. With this kind of thought in mind I had nothing to hold me back.” I love these quotes. I have read lots in your blog, amazing, I had not find that much info about him in the rest of the web. Can you tell me something about his mind training and concentration?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 19, 2019 21:58:00 GMT
Here's a quote I've always loved:
"Apply to infested area"
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Post by pierinifitness on Jun 19, 2019 23:55:48 GMT
jonrock, I’ll reply tomorrow. I do have some things to share. It’s harder to give lengthier comments because I have to use my iPhone. Bruce banned my IP address for my office desktop computer where I do most of my stuff.
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Post by macky on Jun 20, 2019 3:51:35 GMT
Another quote you may like to base your daily 24hrs on "the one you never had last night is the one you'll never have...…………."
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Post by macky on Jun 20, 2019 3:54:43 GMT
A martial arts belt is sufficiently hand friendly so that add-on handles are not necessary. Yes, but.....but......I based my loop and handles on your "Grunt & Shen's Workshop" info
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Post by Silverlooks on Jun 20, 2019 12:42:50 GMT
Overcoming:
- Hook/Strap Row - Hook/Strap Deadlift
Yielding:
- Crow/Crane pose (leg extended variation) - One-legged chair pose
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 20, 2019 15:43:20 GMT
A martial arts belt is sufficiently hand friendly so that add-on handles are not necessary. Yes, but.....but......I based my loop and handles on your "Grunt & Shen's Workshop" info Sucker
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Post by pierinifitness on Jun 20, 2019 18:44:18 GMT
Thanks for sharing jonrock, I’m going to try it. I did plenty of overhead barbell squats coming out of the bottom position when I trained in the Olympic lifts. Pierini, can you share something about Tommy Kono? Life tips, training tips, mind training, etc... He is my favourite olympic lifter and together with Max Sick my favourite strength guy, I admire them as men and lifters. Jonrock, following up sharing what I know about Tommy Kono's mind training and concentration. I never talked to Mr. Kono specifically about his mind training and concentration but can share what I learned from other conversations. He was very focused on the immediate task at hand. For example, when he participated as a volunteer for the Honolulu Marathon, he would put all his effort eggs in that basket and not be available for other things he normally did. Likewise when he was finishing writing his second book. He really knew how to devote all his energy and efforts to what it was he wanted to accomplish. This would be different than someone who, say, is a multi-tasker. Mr. Kono had laser-like focus to the immediate task. His concentration insofar as preparing for his next competition Olympic lift was no different than what you witness watching other Olympic lifters, a true joy watching their platform presence. Mr. Kono was no different than, say, Vasily Aleksyev. They both had intense concentration standing in front of the bar getting mentally prepared for a challenging lift. He was really into having respect for the Olympic bar and frowned on those who dropped the bar after completing their lifts. In my opinion, it was part of his relationship with the weight lifted and an extension of his mind training and mental concentration. One other final share, you know how the saying goes that practice makes perfect? Well, Mr. Kono's version was practice makes permanent so, therefore, your practice of a lift must be perfect because that's what will become permanent. Workouts must be short and quickly end once form fails. He also wasn't a big fan of the auxiliary work now so common in Olympic weightlifting training. The auxiliary exercises as he saw it weren't the lifts. The workouts he presented in his first book consisted primarily of the Olympic lifts, some snatch and clean high pulls and, of course, squat work, both back and front varieties, done Olympic style with upper-body uprightness, as he instructed me here: Note that I called him Mr. Kono. Despite knowing him well, he was my senior and Mr. Kono was the way to refer to him, a lesson I learned from my father. Mr. Kono never told me to relax and call him Tommy as did everyone else so I never did. We had a very good friendship and for that I'm a blessed day. He would have been 89 years old a week from today.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 20, 2019 19:52:02 GMT
Tommy Kono was also a successful bodybuilder, winning the Fédération Internationale Haltérophile et Culturiste Mr. Universe titles in 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1961.
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Post by jonrock on Jun 20, 2019 22:36:11 GMT
Thanks pierini, I am reading it carefully. What a treasure to have known Tommy Kono.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Jun 21, 2019 0:22:19 GMT
Most anything with the Bullworker or Iso-Bow.
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Post by macky on Jun 21, 2019 1:41:35 GMT
Yes, but.....but......I based my loop and handles on your "Grunt & Shen's Workshop" info Sucker
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Post by chanduthemagician on Jun 24, 2019 1:30:21 GMT
Note that I called him Mr. Kono. Despite knowing him well, he was my senior and Mr. Kono was the way to refer to him, a lesson I learned from my father. Mr. Kono never told me to relax and call him Tommy as did everyone else so I never did. We had a very good friendship and for that I'm a blessed day. He would have been 89 years old a week from today. I still refer to my high school football coach as Mr. 32 years after the fact.
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Post by jonrock on Jun 24, 2019 14:30:26 GMT
He was very focused on the immediate task at hand. For example, when he participated as a volunteer for the Honolulu Marathon, he would put all his effort eggs in that basket and not be available for other things he normally did. Likewise when he was finishing writing his second book. He really knew how to devote all his energy and efforts to what it was he wanted to accomplish. This would be different than someone who, say, is a multi-tasker. Mr. Kono had laser-like focus to the immediate task. This is what I was after, thanks. Once I read about a (russian?) competitor who said that Tommy Kono worked on them like a snake works a rat, that his concentration was immovable and that they felt he had already won before stepping on the platform to lift. I have lots to learn and I am happy for that. I have gone back to the "zen/inner mind" style of lifting as opposed to using "psych up" techniques (which drain a bit too much when used frequently). See this thread: sierraexercise.proboards.com/thread/1281/isometric-protocols-experience
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Post by pierinifitness on Jun 24, 2019 15:27:03 GMT
jonrock, with that approach, an Olympic weightlifter becomes one with the bar. Those here using The Hook become one with The Hook which becomes the One.
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