Bud is one of my closest friends and my first mentor. He gave me my start and introduction to performing Strongman culture/training. I had the honor of being interviewed by him in my home.
Bud is super strong and a very classy and humble man. To learn more about Bud (in case you live on another planet and don’t know of him) be sure to go to www.strongerman.com
He is a class act.
Machine
After 25 years of training, hard work, success and failure I’m still striving each day to reach my goals with my body. At 38 years old I’m closing in to the best shape of my life. Through discipline and a desire to be the best at what I do I wake every morning ready to tackle the day and stomp negativity beneath my feet. I will succeed. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t make it, no matter what it is that you want in life. Coach Machine
This is one of my other signature feats of strength I perform in my strength shows.
Starting at the first of the year I will be performing this feat again regularly.
At the end of the video is a very short clip of a neck support with a barbell loaded to 405lbs. Though the person filming did not zoom out so the full weight can be seen (he was scared for my life) I assure you the weight is 4 45lbs plates on each side of the bar.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING. THIS FEAT IS VERY DANGEROUS.
The bar is placed on my throat and I held it for as long as I could.
Which was not that long LOL.
Keep the Faith
Machine
Weekend Private Training Camp
After the tremendous success of my world record neck feat, I have had
many inquiries from people about how they can come train with me. I am
offering a private camp for those of you who are interested in getting
trained by me. This weekend camp will be available any time of the year
that fits into my schedule. I have to emphasize that you need to enroll
quickly, since I will only take 4 people.
Read below for the details:
I am holding a 2 day intensive training camp for all skill levels, and
I am offering it exclusively to my national and international based
students/clients only (no local registrations will be accepted). I am
STRICTLY limiting enrollment to 4 people and it is on a first come,
first serve basis. I will not reserve spots for anyone….NO
EXCEPTIONS. When the spots are filled, enrollment will be closed so I
strongly suggest you act soon to enroll.
You will fly in on a friday to Lexington KY Airport. I will pick you up
and bring you to your hotel then to my gym. Here I will cover the
training that will be done on saturday.
You will then fly out on sunday before 3:00pm.
I usually stick to strict curriculum but will not do so while you are
here. I want to give you the best service I can so I will cover a vast
amount of material.
Here is a sampling of some of the material that will be covered:
Introduction to Physical Power and Phenominal Conditioning: Both of
these methods will be covered in detail such as:
Intro to the Super Sprawl, The importance of Partials and how they can
build insane power, The Overhead Dumbbell Swing and how it is one of
the most important all around strength/conditioning tools we have,
Protect your Neck: all their is to know about the importance of
building a strong neck, A comprehensive veiw of the Deadlift and all
it’s many benefits and much more.
Intro to Submission Wrestling with The PCS-5 system:
Position-Control-Submission, Wrestling as a Conditioner.
(only applicable if you are interested)
Hand/Hand Combatives
“Roughing Up” intro to wherever it tickles it hurts. How to use your
knuckles, elbows, finger tips, where to grip for maximum pain.
(material from my dvd Dirty Fighting)
Foundations of Takedowns and Throws
(Let the Stretching Begin)
Submissions: Offensive and defensive and their counters/escapes
This is off the PCS-5 curriculum & Let The Stretching Begin.
Lethal Weapon- Mental development and Character building skills that
teach the student that the most lethal and powerful weapon we have is
our mind. Here I referance certain material that I call AMMO to further
development a warrior mindset.
Defensive Tactics For The Real World.
Drills: You will be exposed to many drills and exercises designed to
enhance both your striking and grappling skills
and much more…..
For your lodging information, feel free to email me and I will supply
you a list of hotels/motels in the area. Flying in to Lexington
Bluegrass Airport will land you closest to our gym.
The cost of this training camp is $499.00. You will receive a
certificate of completion at the end of the week.
Email me here [3]rippermachine@hotmail.com and confirm your
enrollment.
Once I know you’re serious about attending I will send you the payment
link.
Links:
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The training, while intense and hard, will be safe and very rewarding.
You will learn truly world class techniques and no matter what your
current skill level, you will leave here a better Strength practionner.
I look forward to seeing you soon in Kentucky!
Mike “The Machine” Bruce
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I’m used to training to a set schedule, meaning that I have my weekly workouts all laid out ahead of time.
However, latley I have been straying form my planned approach to training by how I feel.
This has been great for me.
I have had many personal bests by going in to my gym and training by how I feel instead of training what I had scheduled.
An example of this would be:
Monday: I usually deadlift, but what happens if your body has a different plan? Maybe you don’t feel as strong that day, maybe you mentally want to do something else. If so then go for ti.
I may walk in the gym and plan on doing a certain bodypart but then after I warm up I decide to do a full body day (like today)
I find this way of working out to be fun to me, training is fun to me anyways but this way of training has reignited the flame in this old, seasoned body.
Give it a try and see how it works for you.
You might just have a better training session than you had planned.
Today is sunday, I usually never train on sunday but I felt like training so I did and it was awesome.
Sunday workout:
This workout took me 45:00 and I felt awesome.
Also bent a nasty piece of steel. Will continue to bend this piece 1x everyday until it becomes very easy and I can bend it multiple times per day.
Here are 2 videos of some neck work and assistance Deadlift work.