CHAT TRANSCRIPT 08.23.2005
zebulondragonslayer
Hey Marty,
Can you do an article on Deadlift training for us ? perhaps as a blog one day ?
or get Riverhorse to do one for us on the deadlift and training for it ?
Just a suggestion.... I need help there too !
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:57:13:
shore - look for it on my blurb later this week...
Chicago, IL
Are you and Kirk also available for birthdays, weddings, and bar mitzvahs?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:55:14:
Oh absolutely - we're extremely expensive but we'll liven up any event - we make those losers in the 'wedding crasher' look tame...be advised that kirk will leave with someone's woman...
Colesville Dad
Hey Marty,
I am 36yo, male, 195lbs - intermediate lifter (3yrs). I have not been able to get my deadlift significantly above 230lbs ever. I am currently leaning out and my deadlift is maxing out around 200. Any advice on how to break through a deadlift plateau?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:51:21:
send me your current training plan to mgso at supernet.com
Adminsitrator
Riverhorse, please re-submit your question regarding bench presses. It seems to have disappeared.
JimmyV
Do you think the excess PL equipment also leads to bad training for unequipped novices? So much one reads about bench press technique is lockout geared -- the last inch or so of the lift, when the shirt is fully extended and the lifter is doing some work. I can't think of a raw lifter regularly failing on that last bit of the movement. Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:47:17:
Karwoski and I talked last night for an hour and he was relating about the rash of broken arms that are occuring in the bench press by shirt users - he says he can identify six instances off the top of his head - seems the poundage used is so far past the lifter's actual capacity that bones are snapping - I said a smart trial attorney should gather up all the broken-arm people and file a class action lawsuit against shirt makers that are selling the equivlent of cars with faulty brakes....
El Dangeroso
Modern powerlifting is as bogus and inflated as Jet Ski towed surfing! Take that Laird Hamilton!
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:39:31:
Totally different in that at least Laird doesn't compete in sanctioned surfing championships and he doesn't trumpet his new approach as the greatest of alltime...I know a man who admittedly cannot bench press 405 without a shirt - within the last six months he registered an 'offical' 600-pound bench press - now the shirt advocates are saying, 'raw bench pressing bears no relationship to shirt benching' - well that's a hell of a bad development...
Shin Splints
Marty, I like to jog, but my shins kill me after a mile or two! Is there anything I can do to prevent shin splints, besides changing shoes (which I'm going to do anyway)? Do I need to strengthen lower leg muscles?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:43:38:
You have a self-inflicted repetive motion injury and need to find another cardio mode - one definition of dumbness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results...the continually slap, slap, slap of feet on concrete has given you an injury that needs to heal -
Equipment Breakthrus
Interesting point about equipment, Marty. The same can be said about tennis and golf. Equipment and balls are lighter and stronger than ever, but then again these athletes are also weight training, unlike the stars of yesteryear.
Bill R.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:32:54:
Sorry charlie - the analogy doesn't hold up - there are only two or three aspects of tennis that can be modified - the raquet, the ball, the surface they play on - in powerlifting you have anarchy - they have elimintated the walkout - do you know how fundementally easier not having to walk a weight out and set it up makes the lift? This alone changes the squat so fundumentally as to make comparison impossible - this is allowing pro baseballer's to use aluminum bats - do you know how much extra wrapping knees with 20-feet of wraps makes when compared to 10-feet? I submit that other than the deadlift (funny how little the deadlift has gone up) every aspect of the squat and bench has changed - to say "oh its just like having a fiberglass pole" is an infantile oversimplification -
zebulondragonslayer
I'd be very interested in coming up for some seminars should you start doing them Marty ! Definitely keep us posted on any progress on that front !
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:45:56:
Hey John - we'll definately be doing some things with Kirk - stay in touch - trying to get him to do a deadlift exhibition in Richmond at the end of october...
Re: Timex
I could be mistaken, but I don't think Timex HRMs calculate calories at all.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:20:20:
I'll have to check them out in depth...
Daniel
Who is the NEXT Ed Coan?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:20:55:
As I quoted another ball player in my article on Jim Brown, "When God made Jim Brown he shattered that mold into a million pieces and said enough!"
I talked to Ed a few days ago and will be trying to get him to come to the washington DC/baltimore area for a seminar...
The current 'professional powerlifting' scene is riddled with with bloated inflated lifts - the monolift, the canvas suits, the new $300 'groove briefs' the bench shirts that are so restrictive the lifters cannot get 900 down to their chest despite pulling downward on 900 with all their might...Don't forget poor judging where skyhigh squats get three white lights and benches that aren't locked out are passed with brazen impunity - don't forget extra length knee wraps - there is no way to compare modern 'pro' powerlifting to old school powerlifting - I am totally unconvinced that any of the modern lifters are stronger than the old guys - I think they're weaker - the modern inflated lifts are the result of equipment breakthroughs not strength breakthroughs...
jim h
Hi Marty,
Enjoyed reading your article about some books you like, and also about the Yates video. Do you remember in which issue of M&F you did the comparison between Yates and Coan? Thanks.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:29:48:
I wrote over sixty feature articles (some ghosted) for three different weider mags - one month I had five articles published in a single issue of Muscle & Fitness - I cannot remember the exact date but will look back through some of my records to see if I can nail it down - I'm thinking early 1990's...
Daniel
Hey Marty, what are the best exercises for forearms? I get quite a forearm workout with my deads, but I'd like to work on them directly to improve my tennis game.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:52:23:
superset wrist curls with reverse wrist curls done off the end of a bench - one/two/rest...one/two/rest - make sure the range of motion is extreme and keep the reps in the 12-15 rep range - you'll need a lighter poundage for the reverse wrist curl - stretch the fingers backward between sets - 3 sets and those forearms will be on fire...
Rockville
Sports Authority on the Pike sells the other brands. I haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:11:06:
I'd love to see if they have a website with the stats...I'll check it out after the show is over...
Music Man
What brand/style of guitars do you own? Any favorites?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:08:40:
I don't play guit-tar I play piano - I used to have a 1936 acoustic Martin DB something or other but I threw it out - then I saw a guy on antiques roadshow with the same guitar being told it was worth $35,000 - I was upset
B Goetz
What's your general take on bodyweight exercises, like push-ups, pullups, bodyweight squats, etc? Where are these appropriate within the Purposefuly Primitive routine?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:12:04:
are you the nerd subway shooter? ("Here's another one for you." pow!)
body weight exercises are poor substitutes for adjustable barbell/dumbbell - chins and dips and good because they're tough even with body weight...
Rockville
Marty, is there any particular reason why you prefer Polar HRMs? Is there anything wrong with other brands, like Timex or Reebok?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:06:03:
I'd love to see some of the capabilities on the other models - could you do a little research for me? I would love to know if they can regsister heart beats below 100 and if they count calories - I would particularly be interested in Reebok as I am getting a little fed up with the execs at polar...where in rockville are they available?
Carlos S.
How can you claim to know anything about health, when you haven't had your Consciousness Calibrated by "Dr. Dan"?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 11:57:19:
Hey there - this is a reference to the 'ethnic cleansing' Carlos Sanatana let loose on longtime members of his staff that didn't measure up to the consciousness calibration of the pop psychologist Sanatana hired...he's just the latest celb to fall under the sway of mind-control experts that end up controlling the mind of the celeb - witness poor impressionable Brian Wilson falling under the control of Dr. Landy - who even started taking song credits from the surf genius...Sanatana is firing 20/30 year employees who don't measure up to his latest guru...
GRILL-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
GREETINGS FROM THE WOODSHED IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN MOST HONORABLE COACH GALLAGHER,
BACK IN TRAINING AND FEELING GOOD, DID SOME LIGHT SQUATS FRIDAY 405X10 THEN JUMPED TO PULLS 505X8, KISS THE FLOOR AND PULL,PAUSE AT THE TOP, INHALE BACK DOWN, KISS AND REPEAT. THEY FEEL GREAT!! THAT I MINUTE REST INBETWEEN GETS THROWN OUT THE WINDOW. I'll stay with 8's for a while and make 20 LB JUMPS AS I GO. I BEGIN BENCH,AND ARM TOMORROW AFTER A FEW MONTHS OFF FOR SUMMER VACATION AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES. THE GROCERIES ARE CLEANING UP SLOWLY, I DON'T WON'T TO FREAK OUT THE BODY SWITCHING TO TOTALLY CLEAN EATING. I'LL KEEP YOU POSTED.
GRILLMAN
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:14:41:
Always good to hear from you Monster Man - must be nice to take off for six freaking months and come into the gym and squat 405x10 then pull 500x8 - question: when you say, "Don't want to shift to (clean eating) too soon" - is there a physiological reason, is there a downside? I'm going to be working with some overweight folks with bad eating habits soon - I would assume I should clean their eating up asap and - is there a reason to slow walk it?
Washington, DC
Geez Marty, your legs look pretty thin in the new pic on the home page. How much were you squatting then?
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 12:57:56:
704 for a national age group record at 220; this in an IPF/USPF superstrict judging national championships - 3-inches below parallel in a single-ply suit - no briefs and 10-foot wraps...
Marty Gallagher
Hello, and welcome to this week's chat! you may submit questions ahead of time, and I'll answer them when the chat starts at noon.
Marty Gallagher replies on 08-23-2005 at 13:00:34:
I GOT TO GO - SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!
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