Hi Everyone
I hope all is well
This is a new type of blog post I am doing, more for fun than anything else.
I am talking about what the training Astartes Space Marines would do to get in such immense physical shape!
If you know me well enough I love this area of fiction and lore. So much so you have heard me yell it during training haha
Enjoy!
If you know any 40k fan this is for them!!
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In short Space Marines are freaks of nature monsters that are designed to be the best of mankind and can do almost anything.
The best (and funniest) description that I have read to describe their physiology is by the RussianBadger (Youtube Channel linked in Video).
Watch from 00:54 - 02:01 just describes their insane physiology
Here is what (I think) they would train like
In no particular order
Periodisation of Programs
These are the types of programs these weapons of death may of ran. It would include the following;
- German Volume
- Smolov Junior and Senior
- Russian Squat Program
- Boring but Big
- Shieko
etc etc
High volume, high intensity pushing their strength limits beyond what is possible! Regarding exercises.....
Big Compounds = Big Results
As Boris would say......
via GIPHY
- Squat
- Overhead press
- Pull Up
- Row
- Deadlift
- Clean
- Snatch
- Farmer Walks
- Atlas Stones
- Prowlers
- Sprints
- Tyre Flips
- Bench Press
These freaks would have the strength of a few top tier elite level powerlifters/strongmen and the fitness to sprint over and over yet never tire. Thanks to their 2 hearts and 3 lungs.
It is as if someone made a cheat code for humanity and then clicked the "enter" button to see the final results.
Recovery and Adaptation
Now these guys are genetically modified so there would of some form of Androgenic Anabolic Steroid usage going on in the 41st Millenieum of the Imperium of Man.
Who can fault them, they are fighting the forces of chaos and all Xenos spawn from the warp!
As Primarch Guilliman would say when both training and fighting the enemy.........
Yet being too big can still be a hindrence even for these guys!
In the Novel, "Deathwatch" by Steve Parker this is an section taken from it when an Imperial Fist Space Marine kept doing weight work haha (taken from a reddit thread)
Steve Parker's Deathwatch
Perhaps it was a kind of unconscious compensation, but Voss had become prone to voluntary sessions of extreme physical training. His muscles swelled beyond their already significant gene-boosted mass. His armour had to be adjusted by the Chapter’s tech-servitors. Then it had to be adjusted again, and again. Finally, he had been told – no, commanded! – to grow no thicker. His strength and power had outstripped those around him, but concerns had arisen about his mobility in the field. So far, these had not been borne out. But nevertheless, with some reluctance, Voss had acceded to the demands of his superiors. He grew no bigger and, from that moment, trained only to maintain what he had.
Imperial Fist
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| Image Credit: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Imperial-Fists-Legion-based-off-of-In-the-way-that-the-Ultramarines-are-based-off-of-the-Roman-legion |
(source: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/a6mw9p/how_do_space_marines_exercisework_out/)
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PS If you want to hear one great story from the Universe of Warhammer 40k then look no further than this fan movie of one of the books. Titled: Helsreach
Amazing story and vocabulary about the Black Templars focusing on Reclusiarch Grimaldus
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If there is enough interest I would love to sit down and write out their training programme given the lore around it from a sport science perspective
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