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Instead of a TL;DR, I'll just put this at the top, why should you explore the below info more? Many people can see benefits for fixing/preventing injuries, improving multi-functional strength, flexibility and mobility, as well as opening themselves up to fun and challenging new ways of training. There is a lot of interesting stuff here about physical culture, martial arts, and fitness philosophies from around the world. Also, I'd be interested in hearing from any members who have done Ido's online coaching, attended one of his workshops, or have tried some of his workouts.

This Data Sheet has been a long time coming after multiple requests, and while it went through various revisions, I'm satisfied enough to finally post it now. I will add any updates in future comments or help where I can with answering questions.

Ido Portal is a hard man to clearly define, so first I suggest reading his short bio: http://www.idoportal.com/ido




A decent introductory video with a bit of his philosophy, as well as comments on the Paleo Diet, CrossFit, Vegetarians, etc.

While I know the term "Red Pill" is getting applied to an increasing variety of areas beyond Game, I would argue Ido is one of the best examples of Red Pill philosophy towards physical training, health, teaching, etc.

For example, compared to many other high profile names he regularly calls out BS he sees in the mainstream world, will post videos of his students to show the clear results from his methods, and even put his blood work on the web years ago when the subject of his diet came up. He encourages people to travel, get out of their comfort zones while always learning, and yes, he's a big fan of fat shaming.


Ido with some of his students and footage of their training:

Specifics on diet, supplementation, and blood tests:

https://www.facebook.com/portal.ido/post...4462131540

https://www.facebook.com/portal.ido/phot...42/?type=3

https://www.facebook.com/portal.ido/phot...01/?type=1


He has been building his body of knowledge for many years, as he travels the world learning from a variety of disciplines and mentors, and has built a network of like minded people while teaching others. For example, this is some incredible footage he shot of Claude Vitoria, an elderly former circus performer who assisted with Ido's Equilibre training:

Great story behind that trip:

http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009/01/equilibre.html (preface)

http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009_02_01_archive.html (start at bottom post on that page for the first day of the trip)


A few workouts and notes from him as an example of the variety:

Pre-hab/warm up to help wrists and shoulders: http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009/07/pre...ining.html

Improving Natural Squat Routine 1.0 + Bridges http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009/07/flo...ber-1.html

Explosive Leg Workout: http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009/08/exp...rkout.html

Animal Movement Patterns and Locomotion Conditioning: http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/2009/07/loc...oning.html


You shouldn't need an FB account for the following:

Planche: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ido-porta...9012181420

Back Bridges: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ido-porta...8948288093

Basic Scapular Strength: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ido-porta...2908204697

Proper Pull Up Form: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ido-porta...2849274036

Improving Squat Routine 2.0: https://www.facebook.com/portal.ido/post...9121091838


Very exhaustive interview with London Real covering many different topics:

Some of Ido's mentors who I also enjoy checking out:

Charles Poliquin: http://www.strengthsensei.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VnjtJ6...sjA/videos

Coach Christopher Sommer, USA National Team Gymnastics Coach: https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/forum/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/GymnasticBodies/videos

Jacob Daskalo, Israeli Boxing Trainer: https://www.facebook.com/daskalo.jacob and http://www.youtube.com/user/descalo/videos


Links for further reading, videos, workouts, etc.

http://www.idoportal.com (official site, not much here right now beyond basics)

http://www.youtube.com/user/portaldo/videos (his Youtube channel, lots of demonstrations of different exercises and movements)

http://idoportal.blogspot.ca/ (his old blog, no longer updated, documents his travels, along with lots of great workouts under the 2009 section)

https://www.facebook.com/portal.ido/phot...tos_albums (Recent photos, often with info about various methods used in his workshops)

http://antranik.org/the-floreio-project/ (One guy's attempt to organize all the info and knowledge Ido has posted around the internet, this is like it's own Wikipedia, highly recommended)