Karwoski and Gallagher throw a seminar
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Kirk Karwoski and I are going to throw a ‘resistance’ seminar on Sunday October 8th in downtown Washington DC. This will be a wide-ranging three hour comprehensive talk fest that will include demonstrations, explanations and audience participation. Generally speaking we are going to take an hour apiece to go over leg training, torso training and back training. Since both Kirk and I preach the Purposeful Primitive approach to resistance training the entire seminar will be done using a lone barbell. As the two of us brainstormed the format, one underlying philosophic idea came repeatedly to the surface: the infinite variety of possibilities available with a bar and some weights. We are proud minimalists in a world of dazzling distraction. Resistance training has become muddled and fuzzy and most of the inexactitude and ineffectualness of modern progressive resistance training can be traced back to a larger societal malady: too much variety. In this day and age confusion about resistance training is rampant. Personally I feel this is attributable to the profit motive of personal trainers, gym owners, equipment makers and fitness experts. Every day some new device or method is touted as a “breakthrough” and persuasively pitched. Back when I was coming up all we had were barbells and dumbbells and that was a blessing in disguise. We were forced to use free-weights since machines had not been invented. As it turns out, free-weight movements are superior to machine movements insofar as effectiveness and return on exercise investment. Machines eliminate side-to-side control, this “third dimension of tension” is eliminated and that significantly reduces muscular stimulation. Old timers were forced to be inventive using our barbells and dumbbells. Because our exercise menu was so limited we were forced to develop technique modifications that elicited different results from the same basic movements. Apparently this is a lost art (was it ever found?) and every time I show trainees some subtle variations of the basic movements you’d have thought I split the atom. At our Purposefully Primitive seminar Kirk and I will share the infinite variety of exercise possibilities available to any individual with imagination and determination. We have decided to share some of this pent up information in an expanded seminar format. If you live in the DC or Baltimore area and would like to attend, the date is Sunday, October 8th between 11 and 2pm. Contact me at mgso@supernet.com for further information. Please include “seminar” in the message portion so I won’t flush it as spam. Hope to see you there.
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