🏋️ Donnie Thompson’s SuperD Training Method: How the First 3,000lb Total Was Built

🏋️ Donnie Thompson’s SuperD Training Method: How the First 3,000lb Total Was Built

Before the kettlebells, before body tempering, and before the mobility tools found their way into elite powerlifting, Donnie Thompson was busy doing something no one had ever done—totaling 3,000 pounds in sanctioned competition.

But what made it all possible wasn't just mass or mindset—it was a highly structured, highly intelligent training system that redefined what Conjugate could look like for superheavyweights.

This article isn’t just a tribute—it’s a full breakdown of the SuperD Training Method: how Donnie paired max effort and dynamic work, how he blended recovery tools with CNS-intensive lifting, and how his programming principles can still be applied today by lifters who care about both performance and longevity.

Let’s break down exactly (okay maybe not exactly) how the first 3,000 lb total was built—and how you can borrow from it without breaking yourself in the process.

More Than Just Strong

Before he was known as the godfather of body tempering… before the world caught on to his kettlebell prehab work, or his recovery tools the size of anvils… Donnie Thompson was simply the strongest man in powerlifting history.

In 2009, Thompson became the first human to ever total 3,000 lbs in competition, writing his name into the record books at the 2009 SPF Pro-Am with:

• 1,265 lb squat

• 950 lb bench press

• 821 lb deadlift

• 3,000 lb total at a bodyweight hovering between 340 and 360 lbs

Across multiple meets, he posted all-time top lifts in squat and bench press history, redefining what was possible for superheavyweights and becoming a legend in both multiply and geared lifting circles.

But despite his sheer mass and monstrous lifts, Donnie’s approach was anything but chaotic. His success wasn’t built on size alone. It was engineered—piece by piece—using a brutally intelligent variation of the Conjugate Method. One that prioritised longevity, mastered variations through repetition, and elevated recovery work to the same level as max effort training.

This system eventually became known as SuperD Training—a hybrid approach that fused Louie Simmons’ Westside framework with Thompson’s own unique insights from decades under the bar.

What made it different?

• A relentless focus on joint integrity and nervous system health

• The use of repeating movement patterns between max and dynamic effort work

• High-volume, calculated accessory work designed to outlast everyone

• Integration of kettlebell flows, body tempering, and self-therapy into the training plan

When most lifters hear the name Donnie Thompson, they think of canvas suits, reverse bands, and a 3,000 lb total that changed powerlifting history. And rightly so—Donnie was the first to ever do it, and his geared lifts (1,265 squat, 950 bench, 821 deadlift) remain legendary.

But what most people don’t know is that Donnie could also lift raw. And not just “respectably”—formidably.

In 2006, three years before he made history in multiply, Donnie posted the following raw total in sanctioned competition:

• 805 lb squat (raw)

• 565 lb bench press (raw)

• 800 lb deadlift (raw)

• 2,170 lb raw total

These weren’t token lifts or throwaway numbers It’s easy to dismiss multiply lifters as gear-dependent or overly specialised—but Donnie’s raw work proves the opposite. He was a technician. A tactician. A lifter who knew how to train for total-body strength—whether that meant under canvas, sleeves, or just chalk and barbell. This is still a top 100 raw without wraps total.

And it wasn’t just a fluke. These raw lifts reflect the base he had built over decades, the same base that allowed him to withstand the volume, pressure, and brutality of multiply lifting at the highest level.

If you think raw and multiply are completely separate worlds, think again. Donnie bridged both—and that’s what made him dangerous.

If you’re a strength athlete looking to build not just a total—but a career—this system offers gold. Not because it’s flashy. But because it worked—under the heaviest barbell totals ever moved.

Let’s break it down. Of course this isn’t actually the exact system he used. It’s the best guess based on an amalgamation of posts, videos and interviews.

Foundational Philosophy: Strength, Structure & Longevity

Donnie Thompson didn’t just want to be strong. He wanted to be dangerous—and stay that way.

While his name is forever etched into powerlifting history for being the first man to total 3,000 pounds, it’s how he got there that reveals the real lesson. Donnie took the Westside Barbell Conjugate Method and adapted it not for the average lifter, but for superheavyweight athletes with brutal goals and brutal wear-and-tear. He wasn’t interested in theory—he was interested in what worked for him.

As he put it: “You can train like a monster if you recover like a professional.”

This wasn’t Louie’s exact playbook. It was Conjugate, re-engineered for a man in his 40s pushing world records, while holding a full-time job and staying ahead of pain, breakdown, and burnout.

Donnie hit his 3,000 lb total at age 46—not in his youth, not in his prime, but at a point in life when most lifters are chasing “maintenance.” That alone speaks to the system he built.

Core Principles of SuperD Training:

• Joint Health Comes First Everything in Donnie’s system—from kettlebells to body tempering to specialty bars—was designed to preserve the structures that let you keep lifting. Shoulders, hips, elbows, knees. He protected the chassis to keep pushing the engine.

• Variation Isn’t Chaos—It’s Calculated Stress Donnie embraced variation, but never for its own sake. He chose movements that targeted weak links, gave joints a break, or forced new patterns. Cambered bars, reverse bands, board presses—they were all part of a wider system of specific variety.

• Tools Aren’t Gimmicks—They’re Leverage Bands, chains, fat grips, kettlebells, safety bars—if it built something, it stayed. If it didn’t, it got cut. Donnie’s gym looked like a Frankenstein’s lab because it had to. He used every available method to create overload, reduce pain, and reinforce precision.

• Accessory Work > Weekly PRs Where many lifters chase one big number a week, Donnie chased volume, balance, and cumulative fatigue in his assistance work. Reverse hypers, JM presses, heavy triceps, hamstrings, and abs. The goal wasn’t to peak every week—it was to build resilience and readiness year-round.

• Recovery Is Part of Training Body tempering, kettlebell flows, hot/cold contrast, Normatec boots, VooDoo floss, banded joint distractions—you name it, he did it. And not as an afterthought. In Donnie’s system, recovery lived inside the program, not beside it.

What separates SuperD’s approach from most other lifters is simple: he trained like he wanted to be around forever. And at 340+ pounds, under bar weights that would fold normal lifters in half, that philosophy wasn’t just smart—it was essential.

The Weekly SuperD System

Donnie Thompson’s training week wasn’t just brutal — it was smartly structured, relentlessly consistent, and built around two key pillars of the Conjugate Method: Max Effort (ME) and Dynamic Effort (DE).

His version of conjugate wasn’t about ticking boxes — it was about building and maintaining one of the most powerful, beaten-up, and finely tuned superheavyweight bodies in powerlifting history.

Here’s how he laid it out:

🔹 Max Effort (ME) Days – 2x/Week

Each week featured one upper body and one lower body max effort day, just like the traditional Westside model. But Donnie’s lift selection and rotation had a personal twist: everything was chosen based on joint health, bar control, and maximal loading without breakdown.

• Rotate main lifts every 1–2 weeks to stay ahead of overuse injuries and CNS fatigue.

• Main movement was always a strain — he wasn’t chasing RPE 9s, he was chasing perfect technical maxes under heavy load.

Key Max Effort Movements:

• Cambered Bar Box Squat (a favourite — loads hips while sparing the shoulders)

• Front Squats

• Safety Squat Bar (SSB) Squats

• Reverse Band Floor Press (his go-to for overloading the triceps safely)

• 2-Board Press with Chains

• Football Bar Bench Press

“Reverse band work is essential. It teaches the body to overload safely.” – Donnie

Donnie also logged every single session — not just the numbers, but notes on bar speed, effort, and what he’d adjust next time.

🔹 Dynamic Effort (DE) Days – 2x/Week

Here’s where Donnie departed from Westside orthodoxy in a major way — and created something more repeatable and scalable for big, beat-up lifters.

Unlike Louie’s strict 3-week DE waves, Donnie often used weekly DE work based directly off his ME lift from earlier in the week. This created variation continuity and skill refinement — same bar, same setup, different stimulus.

If Monday was a cambered bar box squat for a top single with 9 plates, Friday might be 4.5 plates (50%) for speed doubles with band tension. If ME Upper used chains, DE Upper did too — but for bar speed, not absolute load.

That said, Donnie still sometimes used Louie’s 3-Week DE Wave:

• Week 1: 50% bar weight + bands/chains

• Week 2: 55%

• Week 3: 60%

It depended on the goal, fatigue, and what he needed most — speed under tension, or movement fluency under consistent variation.

Standard DE Prescriptions:

• Squat: 8–12 sets of 2 reps (rotating bar or stance)

• Bench: 9x3 with three grip widths (narrow, medium, wide)

Bands and chains were used on nearly every DE lift — not as a novelty, but as a way to reinforce bar path and teach acceleration through sticking points.

The result? Faster lifts, better technique under fatigue, and carryover that went beyond just max effort PRs.

Donnie’s Variation Pairing Approach

One of the subtler but most powerful aspects of Donnie Thompson’s system was how he paired his Max Effort (ME) and Dynamic Effort (DE) work across the training week.

Where many Westside-inspired lifters treat DE work as an entirely separate entity—with rotating bars, stances, or movement types—Donnie doubled down on variation continuity. In other words: use the same bar, same setup, same pattern—just different intent.

This wasn't laziness. It was skill sharpening under different intensities. The more exposures his nervous system had to a specific pattern in a given week, the more dialled-in and violent he could become in that movement. It also allowed his accessory work to be laser-focused around that exact lift, rather than scattershot recovery volume.

🔄 Weekly Pairing Examples:

• ME: Cambered Bar Box Squat → DE: Speed Cambered Bar Box Squat (same stance, lower intensity, max intent)

• ME: 2-Board Press with Chains → DE: Speed Bench Press with Chains (often straight or Swiss bar to maintain bar path with slight change in stimulus)

• ME: Safety Bar Good Morning → DE: Band-Resisted Good Morning for reps and blood flow (sometimes timed sets)

He said it best himself:

“I got better when I kept things the same for longer and just did them harder.”

This approach might sound simple, but it’s deceptively effective. It:

• Reinforces technical consistency

• Increases CNS efficiency and bar path fluency

• Makes accessory programming easier, because all work supports the same theme

🏗️ Not Just Boxes

Another divergence from Louie’s standard model: Donnie didn’t live and die by the box squat. He certainly used them—especially with the cambered bar—but often preferred squatting into chains or even pausing below parallel without a box. This allowed him to stay honest with depth, manage joint stress, and build raw starting strength from the hole.

In short: his DE work wasn’t just speed for speed’s sake. It was part of a structured, layered attack on movement mastery. If he squatted with nine plates on Monday, you can bet he was rehearsing that bar path with four and a half plates at speed later in the week.

Accessory Work: Outwork Everyone

If max effort built the firepower, accessory work built the armour—and Donnie Thompson was militant about both.

His philosophy here was simple but savage: Outwork everyone, especially on the stuff that doesn’t get Instagram likes.

Accessory work wasn’t just thrown in to pass time or “get a pump.” Every movement was selected to either reinforce the week’s main lifts, bulletproof weak points, or rebuild structural integrity from the inside out.

And it wasn’t a few lazy sets after the fun stuff. Donnie’s sessions regularly included 30–60 minutes of assistance work, sometimes in circuits, supersets, or giant sets. The volume was deliberate. The tempo was controlled. And the movement quality was elite.

💪 Core Movements & Methods

Here’s a snapshot of what that looked like in practice:

• Reverse Hypers: 4–5 sets of 15 reps, multiple times per week → Loaded heavy or for volume depending on the phase. Essential for lumbar health and posterior chain density.

• Glute-Ham Raises (GHR): Strict reps with full range, often tempo-controlled → No cheating. Every rep built hamstring resilience and dynamic knee integrity.

• Rolling Dumbbell Extensions, JM Press, High-Rep Triceps Work: 3–5 sets, 10–20 reps → Built pressing endurance and lockout strength. Fat grips and banded variations used frequently.

• Dimel Deadlifts: Fast, snappy RDL-style pulls for 15–20 reps → Focused on building aggressive hip drive and hamstring reactivity. A favourite posterior chain “finisher.”

• Hanging Leg Raises: 100+ total reps per session → “Trunk training” that improved squat and pull stability. Donnie chased total rep targets, not just sets.

• Fat Bar & Axle Variations: Used constantly, even for curls and rows → Every grip was a chance to build forearm integrity and crush capacity.

This wasn't fluff—it was foundational volume designed to reinforce the heavy work and future-proof the body.

“You don’t need to hit a PR every week. You need to outwork people weekly on the accessories.”

That’s the mindset that separated Donnie from 900lb squatters who plateaued—and the one that helped him total 3,000lbs when most couldn’t even recover from 2,500.

Equipment & Recovery: The Tools of a Tank

Donnie Thompson didn’t just train hard—he built the tools to survive it. His gym, The Compound, became a testing ground for methods and equipment that would later define modern strength and recovery culture. But back then? It was all DIY, welded, bolted, and tested on his own spine.

“If it kept me lifting heavier for longer, I tried it.”

His innovation wasn’t just about intensity—it was about durability. He knew that if you wanted to squat over 1,200lbs, you needed joints that weren’t crumbling and a nervous system that wasn’t fried. That meant thinking beyond barbells.

🛠️ Specialty Equipment

• Specialty Bars Everywhere Cambered bars, Buffalo bars, Safety Squat Bars (SSB), and Bamboo bars were staples. → Each bar had a purpose: stress a new angle, shift load differently, or reduce joint strain. → Bamboo bar benching with hanging kettlebells became a staple for shoulder health and bar path control.

• Reverse Band Setups on Every Rack Not just for overload, but for patterning and confidence under supra-maximal weights. → Donnie famously said: “Reverse band work is essential. It teaches the body to overload safely.”

• Chains & Bands Integrated into ME and DE work alike. Chain weight allowed load to increase through the strongest range of motion. Bands added tension and taught intent. → Deadlift lockouts, squats to chains, triceps extensions, even curls—everything had tension.

• Kettlebells: Not Just for Conditioning Donnie was one of the first powerlifters to publicly credit kettlebells for improving mobility, posture, and joint integrity. → His circuits often included swings, halos, carries, and goblet squats. → Later, he transitioned into using Fatbells and Center of Mass Bells to enhance carryover to heavy barbell work.

🧊 Recovery: The SuperD Way

Before body tempering became a global phenomenon, it was just Donnie, a lathe, and a 130lb steel roller.

• Body Tempering (Pioneered by Donnie) Steel rollers weighing 130–200lbs were used on the quads, traps, hamstrings, glutes, and low back. → The goal: decompress tissue, improve pliability, and reduce post-lift soreness. → “It hurts like hell. But you’ll squat better tomorrow.”

• DIY Recovery Tools

  • Voodoo floss for compression and joint flushing

  • Passive traction setups with bands and inversion

  • Sauna use, hot/cold contrast, and manual therapy

  • Homemade compression therapy long before Normatec was mainstream

“I was recovering like a pro when most guys still thought ice baths were a badge of honour.”

⚙️ Built for a Reason

These tools weren’t gimmicks. They were necessities. Donnie’s body was taking the brunt of world-record lifts in his 40s. His recovery toolkit wasn’t just forward-thinking—it was essential survival protocol for an aging, 300+lb lifter moving monstrous weights multiple times per week.

And here’s the kicker: Everything was adapted in-house. No fancy sponsorships. No tech teams. Just a welding torch, decades of experience, and a spine that demanded innovation.

A Week in the Life: Sample SuperD Schedule (With Variation Pairing)

Donnie Thompson’s training wasn’t random chaos or just "max out and hope." It followed a repeatable structure, built around the Conjugate Method, but tweaked to serve a superheavyweight lifter who needed variation, intent, and restoration just as much as brute force.

His typical training week balanced Max Effort, Dynamic Effort, recovery, and skill development—all underpinned by variation continuity between heavy and speed work.

🔄 Variation Pairing Philosophy

One of the most unique aspects of Donnie’s system was how he paired his Max Effort (ME) and Dynamic Effort (DE) movements across the week.

“I got better when I kept things the same for longer and just did them harder.”

That meant using the same specialty bar or movement pattern for both ME and DE work, letting the nervous system rehearse and refine it multiple times per week.

📅 Sample Week Schedule (With Paired Variation Logic)

Day	Focus	Main Work
Mon	ME Lower	Cambered Bar Box Squat to Max → RDLs, Reverse Hypers, Glute-Ham Raises
Tue	DE Upper + KB	Speed Bench (w/ Chains, 3 Grip Widths) → Band Pushdowns, DB Extensions, KB Carries
Wed	Recovery / Prep	Walking, Body Tempering, Kettlebell Halos & Swings, Contrast Showers
Thu	ME Upper	2-Board Press w/ Chains → Chest-Supported Rows, Rolling DB Extensions, Heavy Curls
Fri	DE Lower + GPP	Speed Squats (Cambered Bar) → Sled Pushes, Band Good Mornings, Belt Squat Marches
Sat	Optional KB Flow	Carries, Swings, Windmills, Kettlebell Flows for Posture & CNS Priming
Sun	Off / Contrast	Sauna, Mobility, Tempering, Voodoo Floss, Light Walking

📌 Alternate Conceptual Week (Same Structure, Slightly Different Lifts)

Day	Focus	Key Work Highlights
Monday	ME Lower	Safety Squat Bar Box Squat → RDLs, Reverse Hypers, GHRs
Tuesday	DE Upper + KB	Speed Bench w/ Chains → Triceps Volume, Shoulder Health, KB Carries
Wednesday	Recovery Day	Long Walks, Tempering, Kettlebell Flow & Mobility
Thursday	ME Upper	Reverse Band Bench Press → Heavy Rows, Extensions, Fat Grip Curls
Friday	DE Lower + GPP	Speed Pulls (w/ Chains) → Sled Drags, Belt Squats, Ab Work
Saturday	Optional KB Flow	Carries, Swings, Halos, Windmills for Posture and Movement
Sunday	Off or Sauna	Contrast Showers, Sauna, Floss, Light KB or Band Work

🧠 What Made This Work?

• Consistency with Variation: Rotating lifts weekly, but keeping the bar, tension, or position consistent between ME and DE days allowed for skill refinement and bar path mastery.

• High Output, Low Chaos: No random plug-and-play. Every movement served a purpose, and assistance work reinforced the core lift of the week.

• Recovery Was Built In: Whether it was tempering, sauna, contrast work, or light kettlebell flows, recovery wasn’t an afterthought—it was an active training component.

• Optional Flows, Not Mandatory Volume: Saturday kettlebell flows allowed for self-regulated, joint-friendly movement without hammering the body further.

This weekly setup gave Donnie the structure to chase massive lifts, the tools to stay resilient, and the recovery bandwidth to keep doing it for decades.

 The SuperD Legacy

Donnie Thompson didn’t invent the Conjugate Method — but he took it somewhere new.

Where Louie Simmons built a system to push powerlifters to their peak, Donnie evolved it for the biggest, strongest, and most injury-prone lifters in the world. He was a 340+ lb superheavyweight, squatting 1,200 lbs into his mid-40s, and he needed more than just bands and effort — he needed a system that could sustain it.

This became the SuperD Method: a hybridisation of Conjugate principles, extreme recovery protocols, and intelligent movement selection that made longevity just as important as load.

What Made SuperD Training Different

• 🧠 ME/DE Synergy that Reinforced Technique Instead of wildly rotating variations every week, Donnie paired Max Effort and Dynamic Effort work — often using the same bar, movement, or loading scheme to refine skill and build patterning under different intensities.

• 🦾 Accessory Work that Built Armour, Not Just Size His assistance wasn’t just about pump or fatigue. It was chosen to bulletproof joints, reinforce weak points, and make you feel stronger tomorrow, not just today.

• ♻️ Recovery That Wasn’t Optional Body tempering, kettlebells, compression, mobility, contrast work — all of it was structured into the week like any other lift. Because if you want to train like a monster, you’d better recover like a professional.

• 🔩 Equipment That Solved Problems Fat bars, bamboo bars, chains, bands, reverse band setups, kettlebell flows — these weren’t gimmicks. They were tools of precision, created to solve real-world problems in battered joints and overloaded bodies.

• 📐 A Total System — Not Just a Spreadsheet This wasn’t just programming. It was a lifestyle, a philosophy, and a blueprint for lifters who wanted to last under the heaviest weights imaginable.

If you want to build a system that:

✅ Lasts under heavy loads, 

✅ Keeps you sharp and moving well, 

✅ And actually builds toward something bigger—

Then Donnie Thompson’s SuperD Method is a blueprint worth studying, adapting, and respecting.

It’s not flashy. It’s not mainstream. But it’s one of the few systems that got stronger, healthier, and harder to kill at the same time.

Don’t just chase numbers. Build something that can carry them.

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Disclaimer: The methods in this article are summarised from a number of sources and of course it will only accurately represent a portion of the years and years of training that went into the building of the 3000lbs total. Donnie Thompson is one of powerlifting’s GOATs.

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SuperD vs Westside: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Donnie Thompson’s SuperD Method wasn’t a rejection of Westside—it was an adaptation. He took the skeleton Louie Simmons gave the world and re-engineered it for the needs of the biggest, most broken, and most brutal lifters alive.

Here’s a breakdown of where Donnie stayed loyal to Westside and where he broke off to build his own path:

Element	Westside Barbell (Classic Louie)	Donnie Thompson / SuperD Method	Why It Mattered
Max Effort Work	1 Upper / 1 Lower per week, heavy singles	Still lots of variation but a smaller group of exercises for rotation	Prioritised joint integrity while still chasing strain
Dynamic Effort Waves	Strict 3-week wave cycles (50/55/60%)	Often used weekly DE % based on ME lift that same week	Reinforced movement patterns, simplified planning, prioritised recovery
Movement Rotation	Change ME lifts weekly or every 2–3 weeks	Same, but reused bars more frequently for CNS mastery	Mastery > variety. More technical exposure = better motor learning
Box Squat Dominance	Box squats were foundational	Used them, but often swapped for chain squats or paused raw work	More specificity for meet performance and individual weak points
Recovery Methods	Reverse hypers, sled work, occasional massage or contrast baths	Body tempering, compression tools, voodoo floss, daily kettlebell flows	Recovery became its own system inside the training—not an add-on
Accessory Work	High volume, posterior-focused	Even more volume—especially on trunk, triceps, and hamstrings	Used assistance work to build armor, not just pump
Equipment Innovation	Bands, chains, reverse hypers, GHR	Invented body tempering, bamboo bar benching, early Bowtie usage	Created tools that solved specific pain and recovery issues
Coaching Focus	Lifters trained in groups, coached in real-time by Louie	Donnie was largely self-coached; documented everything	Emphasised personal responsibility and detailed tracking

🧊 The SuperD Recovery System: What It Actually Looked Like Week to Week

Donnie Thompson didn’t treat recovery like a luxury or afterthought—it was the third pillar of his training system, alongside ME and DE work.

While most lifters wait until they’re broken to start rehab, Donnie trained to not break in the first place. Here’s how he actually structured recovery throughout the week:

🧠 Core Recovery Principles

• Daily mobility = minimum standard, not extra credit.

• Recovery methods rotated based on fatigue, soreness, and loading pattern.

• Body tempering = nervous system restoration, not just tissue flushing.

• Kettlebell flows = warm-up AND joint maintenance, depending on session.

🗓️ Example Weekly Recovery Structure (SuperD-Style)

Day	Recovery Focus	What He Did
Mon (ME Lower)	Post-lift flush & tissue decompression	Reverse hypers → tempering on glutes/hams/quads → light sled drag post-session
Tue (DE Upper + KB)	Warm-up emphasis on joint prep	Kettlebell halos, windmills, carries, trap band traction pre-lift; contrast shower at night
Wed (Recovery Day)	Full system deload	20–40 min walk → kettlebell flow → full-body tempering → sauna or hot/cold contrast
Thu (ME Upper)	Elbow & shoulder decompression	Light band pushdowns → forearm rolling → Bowtie post-session → passive shoulder hangs
Fri (DE Lower + GPP)	Blood flow + posterior flush	3–5 rounds sled drags → banded good mornings → quad/ham/low back tempering
Sat (Optional KB Flow)	CNS tune-up & posture reset	Carries, swings, windmills + diaphragmatic breathing work
Sun (Off/Contrast)	Active rest + compression	Normatec-style compression, voodoo floss, sauna or cold plunge, long walk

🔧 Tools in His Weekly Recovery Arsenal

• Body Tempering Rolls (130–200lbs) — pre/post-lift or on recovery days

• Kettlebells — halos, windmills, goblet squats for prehab and posture

• Voodoo Floss — elbow, knee, and ankle flushing after hard sessions

• Band Traction — used before/after upper sessions for shoulder reset

• Hot/Cold Contrast Showers — used 2–3x/week to aid nervous system rebound

• Bowtie (Donnie’s own design) — worn post-training or for active decompression

💬 Donnie’s Mindset on Recovery:

“I couldn’t afford to get hurt again. So I trained like someone who expected to recover.”

—————————————————————— While in reality this is only a flavour of the type of training that Donnie Thompsom did it’s very important that people coming into the sport remember and pay homage to the legends of it - additionally among his many groundbreaking and sport changing inventions Body Tempering and its impact on strength sports performance cannot be understated.