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300 Spartan Workout - Still Wrong

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Yes, yes I know I have already written an article on the 300 Workout, a very popular article. In fact most the email comments I receive are to do with the 300 Spartan Workout Routine. I received an email the other day from a rather interesting fellow, Dean, who is a self proclaimed expert on the 300 Spartan Workout routine and probably everything else in the world.

The 300 Spartan Workout routine article has also proved to be my most popular article drawing many visitors from Google and Yahoo Search Engines. Unfortunately this makes it easy for people like Dean, our soon to be introduced 300 Spartan workout routine guru, to find my website....

300 Spartan Workout Routine A Myth 

In my original 300 Spartan Workout routine article I wrote about how the actors in the 300 movie were not changed into Spartan Warriors from couch potatoes as originally reported by Men's Health Magazine in a period of somewhere between 8 to 12 weeks of a fictitious 300 spartan workout routine.

In the article I refute that the casting director would have hired fat slobs then tried to kill them with an ultra hard 300 spartan workout routine from Gym Jones when he had such a large talent pool of stuntmen available in North America and Canada.

Regardless of any magical 300 Spartan Workout routine there is also no way possible to gain large amounts of muscle and drop large amounts of fat in that time, this I know from 22 years spent training in the gym.

300 Spartan Workout Not Only A Test? 

Yet the fact that I am 320lbs and relatively lean seems to suggest to some that they still know better than I might, today I am going to pick on Dean, our 300 Spartan Workout Routine Expert of the Day, in regards to this.

Dean sent me this rather enlightened email on the 300 Spartan Workout Routine;

 Wow?! First off do your research before you make yourself look like a dumbass.
The 300 spartan workout routine was designed to give actors and stuntmen a lean, chisseled look, in a short period of time. The actual 300 spartan workout routine is NOT just the final test, it is also the workout routine that led up to it. The 300 reps were not done all at once durring the workout. I'll help you out here bro, go to www.webmd.com and look up "300 work out". Read this article so you'll understand. Next time do the propper research before you go bitchin

Now reading Dean's email he obviously has issues with anger management and potty mouth, we can also assume by his use of the words "bro" and "propper" that he is either a semi-literate from New Zealand or from the lower socio-economic areas of Australia. I am guessing the second as one outstanding negative feature in many Australians is the innate desire to see successful people made wrong or "brought down" - it is called Tall Poppy Syndrome in Australia.

Anyway... 

And my response to Deans little 300 Spartan Workout Routine outburst;

Who's the dumbass?

http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=35

"The second misconception surrounds the idea of the Spartan workout, aka “300”, how frequently it was done or who actually finished it. “300” is a one-time test, an invitation-only challenge undertaken by those deemed ready for it. By the end of our four-month project 17 people had done the workout (Logan and I were two of them). This constitutes about 50% of the cast and stunt crew. We supervised every test, evaluated each rep for quality and only counted those that achieved our standards for form and range of motion. Like many workouts “300” is not hard once you’ve done it but the apprehension built up ahead of it – something we encouraged – was enough to make some guys fear it to the degree that performance was compromised. This workout was a crucible that some passed through and others still have hanging over them."

The above quote is from Mark Twight, head trainer and designer of the "300 Spartan Workout Routine", now I think the actual designer of the 300 Spartan Workout Routine, the guy who actually worked with the actors,  would probably know what he is talking about a little more than our learned friend Dean.

I also get others who do "drive by" abusive emails which seems rather weird, some of these people seem to get off on being rude to strangers - what sort of person goes scouring the web to find someone to write an abusive email to?

Anyway, Dean, I think you will find that you are completely wrong on the 300 Spartan Workout Routine thing, though you never replied back, it would be nice to receive an apology... but I won't be holding my breath bro. 

Here's the original the 300 Workout article 

 
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