Working out and work
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Purposeful Primitives love to work out. They like the feeling they get anticipating the upcoming session, they love the feeling they get as they actually work out, they love the physiological endorphin rush they get in the aftermath, they love the way a savage workout leaves them feeling the rest of the day. Because they love the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment derived from intense training, a purposeful primitive makes time for training. Its not a chore or a hassle and we work and scheme and angle to make time for something we enjoy and obtain pleasure from. For those unfortunates who have yet to figured out how to inject fun into fitness, weekly training sessions are akin to weekly visits to the dentists office (an no, I am not a rabid anti-dentate some of my best friends are dentists right Dr. John?) to have yet another tooth drilled.
Such exercises in pure willpower must surely come to an end. Those whacked individuals that love to train find that passion and love of training results in enthusiasm which effortlessly powers the process. When the process is powered by enthusiasm, momentum builds over time; when willpower powers the process momentum fades over time. Enthusiastic workouts are of superior every single time to rote, perfunctory, blas workouts. Those who love training make time for training even if they have a fulltime job and all the related headaches and heartbreaks that go with working for The Man.
How to make fitness fit? First off, training has to take a deep back seat to family and work responsibilities. Still, most of us have some free time and if you had four to six cumulative hours weekly to devote to fitness youd be able (assuming youre passionate and enthused) to mount a fairly serious fitness effort. What should be the goal of a serious fitness program? I think something profound; nothing less than a complete physical transformationmore muscle, less body fat, stronger, leaner, fitter, faster, more agile all of the above and more. A purposeful primitive is not only enthused but informed: theres a method to our madness. Lift weights, perform cardio, eat smart.
Practice the three legs of the Fitness Triad for a protracted period of time and the human body, the Soft Machine, reconfigures itself. If you subject the body to certain physical procedures on a repeated basis (and assuming the intensity is sufficient to trigger the adaptive response) the laws of science and biology determine the outcome. Realistically, how much time do you have to devote to fitness each week? Determine what days and what time of day you will train.
My default position is to divide available training time in half, dedicating 50% towards weights and 50% towards cardio. Use Old School Purposefully Primitive attack plans in both exercise disciplines. Get control of your eating dont over-eat and dont under-eat. Clean up the food selections and settle in for a while. Physical transformation is a process not an event. Consider early morning training: getting it done before the rest of humanity wakes up not only ensures it gets done but screws your head on straight for the rest of the day. Weekends: if every weekend every minute of your free time is booked solid there is always the early morning. A session on Saturday and Sunday gives you a great springboard into the workweek. Youre a hell of a lot more inclined to squeeze in a workweek workout (or two) coming off two successive kick-ass weekend training sessions.
Real results recharge enthusiasm and enthusiastic workouts result in real results. Does that sound like good dialogue from a bad Kung Fu movie? Round and round it goes, momentum regenerates and amplifies results and with each passing week Big Mo takes hold. Transformation (maybe not the whole hog all at once but at least a nice chunk) becomes a matter of not if but when.
SUGGESTION: After watching week after week the bumbling and stumbling by the hapless, Keystone Cop-like American CIA/military on the TV series 24 I have a suggestion: enlist the services of Dog the Bounty Hunter to slap the silver bracelets once and for all on Habib Marwhan. As Sonny Barger once quipped about the Hells Angel selection process, we dont select em; we recognize them. Obviously Dog is a brother Purposeful Primitive, one of the Lost Tribe of Purposeful Primitives. (On a related note: we just made contact with a whole herd of Purposeful Primitives in Finland) Apparently the family that kicks criminal ass together stays together. I love Dogs pre-bust invocations where his truly bad-ass family hold hands as Dog intones, Dear Lord please let us all be safe in our about to happen apprehension of Mongo the 400-pound Samoan crack dealerPlease guide our hand as we use that hand to beat the dog piss out of Mongo for he is bad man Lord and we intend to beat or mace his ass into the ground in Jesus name amen. Plus the best hair on TV. Dog is a role model to Purposeful Primitives worldwide on how to fight off the debilitating effects of old age.
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