DragonDoor has just announced the upcoming release of a new book entitled "The Purposeful Primitive". Written by well known strength expert Marty Gallagher this book promises to be one of the best books on the Iron Game.
The book is expected to ship July 1st. If you order by midnight June 12th you can save $5 off the full price. I ordered mine yesterday as soon as I found out about.
Here's what Marty has to say:
The Purposefully Primitive Manifesto
Doing Fewer Things Better
Executed with the requisite tenacity, intensity and precision, Purposefully Primitive
methods can and will favorably alter the compositional makeup of the
human body. Primitive tools and simple modes are used to power sparse
methods. By generating a methodical and sustained physical and
psychological effort, the human body is forcibly morphed from what it is
into what we want it to become: leaner and more muscular. The human
body is not seduced, lured, cajoled, convinced or persuaded to alter
itself—it is forced to alter itself. We force the body to
favorably reconfigure itself by generating physical and psychological
fierceness during training. This intense, protracted physical effort is
amplified and enhanced by the studied and sustained use of specific
nutritional strategies. Commonsense nutritional strategies and Old
School training tactics are synchronized and placed within a periodized
timeframe.
The three interrelated Purposefully
Primitive disciplines (weight training, cardiovascular training and
nutrition) need to be regularly and routinely practiced in a balanced
and proportional fashion. Lock down all aspects of the program and
within seven days of full implementation tangible results appear; by
the end of the first month, body composition (the fat-to-muscle ratio)
undergoes a dramatic turnaround; those who commit completely for 90
days undergo a total metamorphosis. Does this mean everyone will end up
looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger on his best day? No, but no matter
how deep a physical hole you are currently standing in, 90 days of
maniacal discipline and teeth-gritting effort will enable you to
utterly and completely change the shape, texture, efficiency and
hardness of your body.
Our Purposefully Primitive Methodology is a
loose amalgamation of methods and modes absorbed from genuine Masters.
This cumulative, combined knowledge is grouped into one of four
categories: Iron, Mind, Cardio or Nutrition. These are the four avenues
of transformational progress. The Purposefully Primitive amalgamated
philosophy is not time intensive, but it is physically intense: total
training time for a beginner or intermediate athlete does not need to
exceed five cumulative hours per week—not much time at all when one
considers the innumerable physical benefits derived. The caveat is that
you must generate extreme physical effort during those five
hours. Sub-maximal training yields sub-maximal results; we consciously
and continually push against the lip of the limit envelope because we
understand that extreme physical effort is the transformational
precursor.
Disciplined nutrition underpins gut-busting
training. Eat plentiful amounts of wholesome, nutritious and delicious
tasting foods. Bias food consumption towards nutrients preferentially
used to build muscle and accelerate the healing and recovery process.
Avoid foods preferentially shuttled into body fat storage. Purposefully
Primitive training is self-inflicted physical trauma. We need to supply
the battered body with ample amounts of regenerative nutrients. Certain
nutrients ingested at specific times will accelerate the physical
recovery process. Physical recovery is the precursor to actual muscle
growth.
Certain foods accelerate results and other
foods undermine hard training. We consume foods that amplify our
efforts and jettison foods that subvert and derail the transformational
process.
Those disciplined few able to attain and
maintain that delicate, elusive balance between resistance training,
cardiovascular training and precision nutrition, ignite physiologic synergy.
When synergistic critical mass is attained progress compounds at an
astoundingly fast rate; results exceed realistic expectations. The
transformational total exceeds the logical sum of the deconstructed
parts: 2 + 2 + 2 = 10. A fully instituted Purposefully Primitive
regimen always transforms the physique. The human body
subjected to our peculiar and particular procedures and protocols has
no biological choice in the matter: when the human body has been
successfully served with certain physiological imperatives the laws of
causation must be obeyed. Enact our procedures in the prescribed
fashion and muscle must be manufactured; stored body fat must be mobilized and oxidized.
I
have provided you with a series of tried-and-tested tactical training
templates. I have provided you with nutritional strategies used on a
worldwide basis by the athletic elite. Hopefully I have shed the light
of truth on a few basic physiological facts-of-life. There are certain
laws of science and biology that are profoundly applicable to the
process. All fitness-minded individuals need to understand these
facts-of-life if they are ever to gain any traction in their own
transformational quest.
I have empowered you with classical
knowledge gleaned from true Masters. You now know precisely what
procedures and protocols will work. By replicating and instituting
Purposefully Primitive training and eating strategies, you will be able
to engineer your very own physical metamorphosis.
Your search for effective transformational methods is over.
—Marty Gallagher
From the foreword by Pavel Tsatsouline:
"Since their overwhelmingly warm reception of Paul Anderson
half a century ago, the Russians have always been respectful of
American strength and I am no exception. Anywhere Marty and I met, be
it in a powerlifting meet where he was my 'corner man', on a meditative
walk through the mountains, over a glass of wine at the Ritz in
Washington or a fine Mennonite-raised steak at Marty's country
compound, I prodded and cajoled my friend for more knowledge. What I
have learned has blown me away by its beauty and simplicity. I invite
you to be equally blown away from your reading of The Purposeful Primitive.
Marty
Gallagher is the best writer in the iron game, period. He is so far
ahead of the competition, both in his inner and outer knowledge of his
subject and in his masterful delivery, that he is in a league of his
own and the second best is not even in sight. It only took him forty
years to reach his overnight success…" Read Pavel's complete foreword
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