Program Description
“Kozo Sudo could've been Japan's answer to Tom Platz, but he quit training legs in the gym & just went mountain biking for 2hrs a day after judges told him he'd never win with legs like his. Somehow, the answer he arrived at was to keep his legs in competition shape by refusing to change gears while biking Japan's absurdly steep mountains. Weird as it was, that method worked- it enabled him to beat Bertil Fox & Dale Adrian when he won the medium class of the 1976 NABBA Mr U (& Dale Adrian once beat Tom Platz for Best Legs). Standing 5'8 & weighing 185lbs when he achieved his final form, Sudo sported a pair of hard-earned 17" cold-measured arms that were just over 18" with a pump. When he took 4th in the 1972 Mr Japan, he was told his upper body lacked mass & his lower body was too bulky. Over the course of the next couple of years he added .5" to his arms by training with an astonishing amount of volume. In this era, Japanese lifters used a system in which they trained full body daily, doing a bulking workout M-W-F @ a shaping workout T-Th-S during precontest. If you thought you couldn't bulk & cut simultaneously, think again. Here's the program natty Japanese BBers used to both. Sudo obviously replaced the leg work with mountain biking, but he still lifted 2-2.5hrs/day precontest & dieted on 4k calories/day.“ -Plague of Strength, 2024
Program Overview
- LevelIntermediate, Advanced
- GoalBodybuilding, Muscle & Sculpting
- EquipmentFull Gym
- Program Length16 weeks
- Time Per Workout120 minutes
- CreatedDec 14, 2024 08:19
- Last EditedDec 14, 2024 09:30