Archive for July, 2005

Balance within the training template

29 July 2005

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! As Purposeful Primitives we understand the need practice two distinct types of training: progressive resistance for the external musculature and cardiovascular training for the internal plumbing. In addition, training need be coordinated with a distinct eating regimen that […]

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A Purposefully Primitive irresolvable contradiction in terms?

28 July 2005

A lot of readers have taken me to task for, one the one hand, stressing starkness and minimalism in training and nutrition — yet on the other incongruously and unreservedly recommending the Polar heart rate monitor. As one hardcore buddy eloquently put it, Dude, you tell these people all they need is a bunch […]

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Food prep shortcuts

27 July 2005

The reality of summer is I cook less than any other time and that can be problematic. My appetite plummets in direction proportion to the thermometer and as a realist I need to take that into account and make adjustments. First, I never try and engage in a mass building program when the heat […]

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The default rep range

26 July 2005

I had an hour long conversation with Pavel Tsatsouline on Sunday and per usual his probing questions churned up some things that I had forgotten. One thing that he asked was, Over the years, was there a single repetition range that I preferred? What was normal for me? Put another way, what single rep […]

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More thoughts on hot weather cardio

25 July 2005

Hot enough for you? When it reaches 90-degrees here in the mountains I know you flatlanders are really suffering. I hit the steep mountain trails early to beat the heat and even then the humidity is so intense you see mists rising off the surface of the trout stream. When it gets this hot […]

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Why accessing cardio intensity is so important

21 July 2005

I take my cardio outside be it August or February. Nowadays with the thermometer busting 90 each day it takes less effort to generate the same heart rate. Too many fitness devotees confuse the cardio goal (systematic and protracted elevation of the heart rate) with the cardio mode. The mode is a means to […]

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Beyond Bodybuilding: Stranger in a Strange Land

20 July 2005

When Americas foremost literary critic, Harold Bloom, professor emeritus at Yale was asked to define literary greatness, he did so as follows,
I have tried to confront greatness directly: to ask what makes the author and the works canonical. The answer, more often than not, turned out to be strangeness, a mode of originality that […]

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Remembrances of Days Past

18 July 2005

The 1991 world champions: Team USA…Kirk and Marty are in the back row
This is a picture of the 1991 American powerlifting team after we captured the world team championships in Orebo, Sweden. I was a one of four coaches for the US squad. In 1983 I had a horrific accident and ended up with […]

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