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I R O N E S S A Y S you” on the potentially dangerous lifts allows you—inspires you—to give 110%. We all pick up our game when another person or persons are watching us do something and watching us intently. The attention makes us perform at a different level, a higher level. A spotter allows you to extend yourself. Lifting by yourself when bench pressing or squatting, requires you to leave a rep or two “in the bank”—you need some reserve strength left at the end of each set. You cannot afford to get pinned under a heavy weight and that means you never try that questionable rep. With a spotter you are now liberated to try that extra growth or strength producing rep that safety and sanity won’t allow when training solo. Muscle growth and additional strength lies in those reps barely made, the stuff you’d be crazy to try on your own. With spotters the dangerous reps become plausible and beneficial. You don’t need a spotter for a 40 pound leg curl or a 15 pound triceps kickback, but you damned sure need them when you are attempting to handle 405x6 when the most you’ve ever done is 405x5. Spotters allow you to go where no timid man should venture: into the productive danger zone of extended reps and increased poundage. Purposeful Primitives instinctively push against the limits of the poundage and rep envelope: that is where the gains reside. Anyone performs better when all eyes are riveted on them during a heavy lift. As my old Zen power coach once said, “You only think you’re training hard until you get sucked into a training group, a group way smarter and way stronger than you.” Better to train in a dump with Supermen than in a posh palace surrounded by low-pain tolerance politically-correct metro-sexual sissies. For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now 22
23 T H E P U R P O S E F U L P R I M I T I V E HOW SIMPLE CAN THE PHYSICAL RENOVATION PROCESS R BE MADE WITHOUT LOSING EFFECTIVENESS? ecently I’ve had to do something I hadn’t done in decades: introduce folks who’ve never lifted weights in their entire lives to my peculiar ways and methods. Working with clinically obese folks caused me to undertake an unexpected reexamination of my own Purposefully Primitive methods and procedures. Could I break the basics of an already ultra-basic system down even further? Was it possible to create a framework sparser than the spare template already in place? Could I create a skeletal framework so limited that it could be used effectively by the untrained; people who work full time jobs, people with large families and lots of responsibilities? How simple can you make the physical renovation process without losing effectiveness? My back-to-basics immersion caused me to deeply reconsider procedures and philosophies done for so long and so regularly that, in some cases, I’d forgotten why I do things the way I do them. I’ve lifted weights since the age of Mark and Buck Chaillet: There was no more supersimplistic trainer than Mark. You couldn’t do much less than Mark, yet he became one of the best in the World. For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now
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