Doc Pink and Gearing Up For Spring
15 March 2005If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
DOC PINKdespite power-phobic stereotyping, not all Purposefully Primitive powerlifter/iron pumpers are bone-headed Neanderthals (though most are). My old friend Dr. Dan Pinkston (pictured, left) was in town for a Senate sub-committee hearing on the North Korean nuclear threat. Dan and I first met twenty years ago when he was stationed at the National Security Agency as a Korean analyst. He became a training partner and a serious powerlifter who eventually squatted 800, bench-pressed 500 and deadlifted over 700 at around 270-pounds bodyweight. He relocated to South Korea for many years and earned his Ph.D. Fluent in Korean, Dan went to work for various think tanks stateside and abroad. He continued his lifting and took up judo, studying under one of Californias leading sensei masters.
A few years back at a reduced body weight he broke the California master drug-free deadlift record with a pull of 650 using a limited training schedule. A back injury last year put the brakes on his power career. He still trains hard and heavy. For the past few years he has been employed at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and recently was named the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. In addition Dan is a senior research associate for the Korean Peninsula.
He was in Washington for some high level conferences and had a few days before jetting to Albuquerque for another conference. He always shoots up to hang out for a few days on his periodic visits to the Capitol. As is our habit, we relaxed and drank quite a bit of imported beer, ate massive amounts of grilled salmon and compared notes on who was where and doing what.
After two decades we have a far-flung network of brother-in-arms. Big GrillMan called while Doc Pink was here: the two served together and Big Grill, all 6-2 and 350-pounds of him, phoned the Compound to run his latest deadlift routine by Pink and myself. Grill wants to hit 800 at a competition in April and that day hit 605 for 8 single reps each done within 30-seconds. Grill lives in an adobe mud hut in the desert and has a sweat lodge out back next to his garage gym. Chief Dan George drops by on occasion and watches Big Mike Fink (GrillMan) deadlift. Dan thinks he might be back in the neighborhood within the next few months and I always look forward to his visits.
GETTING GEARED UP FOR SPRING: Here in the Northeast, the onset of spring means warm weather and time to get outside and get super active. Im already plotting my next cardio venture. Late last fall I discovered a pristine lake tucked away in the Catoctin Mountains, 12 miles from my house. I have been to the lake a dozen times in the past four months and hike the mountain trails that surround it; for all intents and purposes the lake is unused. All winter I dreamt of getting down to business as soon as things warmed up.
My plan is to purchase a single man ultra-light kayak, strap it to the top of my jeep and hit the lake for high-intensity cardio sessions, paddling my arms off on the smooth-as-glass surface. After 40 to 60 minutes of 75-90% age-related heat rate max aerobic activity, what better way to cool down than to take my spinning rod and toss my hula popper along the shoreline and see if I can land some breakfast trout? This seems an appropriate Purposefully Primitive way to get the daily cardio out of the way.
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