Why Ancient Gymnasium ?

Just started ancientgymnasium.blogspot.com, and wihtout really thinking, gave this name to my blog.

what exactly made me think of this ? to answer, i have to explain you my philosophy of training:

everything begins ...

I used to hate training. i started going in a gym with a friend, because he asked me to( he is the kind that can't do stuff alone). but i hated it from the first day. there was only machines there, no free weights. no barbells and no dumbells. i tried to bench on the smith machine, but it felt wrong and weird, and i sucked at it. so the only thing i did in this gym was push ups and pull ups.

After a year or so, my friend had reached a nice developpement, by doing only bench pressing and curls in the smith machine, and lots of push ups at home every morning. he gained around 20 pounds of muscle and fat.

I, on the other way, founded myself exactly thesame as when i started, because i did not try to eat more or increase poundages, wich were still the same mostly. but i could do push ups chin ups and dips without much rest and get my workout done  in about twenty minutes.

Another thing is that i was very skinny. at age 20, i weighted 150 pounds at 6'2. by age 25 i was only at 160 pounds so i started thinking maybe it was the time for me to boost my knowledge about bodybuilding.
All my friend had good results with bodybuilding, but most of them only wanted to grow a little muscle, then stop there to stay with a fit body. i wanted to get big. i dreamed of a big and muscular body.

By chance, i found stronglifts.com, wich advocates heavy barbell training to gain muscle and strength. i went for it and ordered a power rack and a barbell and around 300 pounds of weight. with gomad, i gainded 30 pounds in just three months, but my body felt completely wasted and i stopped there for 4 months, to rest.

I started over and went back to 190 pounds but this time, i was leaner , and stronger. again, i did not want to abuse my body, so after three months of training, i stopped again. To this day, i keep alterning between months of training and rest, not because im lazy but because i feel the need to be cautious with the heavy weitghs. my best lifts are : 200 pounds bench press 240 pounds squat 315 pounds deadlift, 135 pound one rep over head press strict, and 55 pounds dumbbells press strict. my best bodyweight was 190 pounds around 10-12% bodyfat. (where you can see the abs, seratus) so what is my philosophy of training ? in a few words : heavy, barbells and dumbells, and bodyweight exercises.

i did nt yet reach my goals, of a big muscular body, but my friends all saw my transformation from skinny to bear like arms and chest.

Ancient Gymnasium will be a place for naturals trainers, that loves free weigths, milk and honey, that want that herculean physique by sweating rather than with pills, that want to grow a thick beard but to have body air removed and that want to display a perfect sun-taned skin.