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I R O N E S S A Y S Cassidy” training and over time morphed his training template into a mirror of the methodology used by Ed Coan and Doug Furnas. At the time I was conversing with Ed weekly and I would continually share with “The Great One” how “The Kid” was doing. I would alert Ed on how Kirk’s training had gone the previous week and seek Ed’s thoughts. I’d relate the glitches and potholes we encountered and Coan was magnificent. He would ponder with me about what had happened and would continually make incredibly insightful suggestions about how to up Kirk’s game. Ed’s core advice was oddly resonant with my own discoveries when I first began training. John McCallum, my first Iron Mentor, had repeatedly stressed the importance of the 5-rep set. Later when I trained with Hugh, he too stressed we should get as strong as possible using 5-rep sets. My introduction to Ed and Doug’s training template was old home week when Ed indicated that the backbone of his strength philosophy was “getting as strong as possible in the 5-rep set.” Ed encapsulated the rationale: “The 5-rep set strikes the best balance between low 1-3 rep power-building sets and 8-12 rep tissue-building sets.” I anchored Kirk’s training template around the 5-rep set and he took to it with a vengeance. The last piece to the Karwoski puzzle fell into place when he ventured to West Haven Connecticut at my beckon to learn “The Fantano Bench Press.” For some reason, structurally or psychologically, Kirk absorbed this complex method effortlessly. While it took most lifters years to master and incorporate all the subtle, interrelated complexities, Kirk picked it up in no time. It was like handing a boy who had never touched a football the ball and having him throw a 70 yard “frozen rope” bullet pass on his first effort. Nutritionally he needed help. He was massive but fat and eventually we hooked him up with a monstrous bodybuilder named Anthony D’Arrezo (RIP). Anthony got Kirk squared away on a big man nutritional regimen that dropped Karwoski’s body fat percentile from 20% to 10% without any degradation in muscle mass. Karwoski morphed into a power Terminator and just as I had been there when he commenced his national domination, it was fitting that I was there when he began his world domination. We captured the world team title with ease. At the awards banquet afterwards, the greatest non-USA powerlifter in the World, the Finnish 181 pound World Champion, Jarmo Virtanen, came up to Dan Austin immediately after Dan came offstage after being awarded the Champion of Champion’s award. Virtanen had his Finn posse with him and these genuine bad asses sauntered over to Dan and I. Jarmo looked like Charles Bronson and was in a confrontational mood. He swilled a double vodka with one hand while he chain smoked Marlboros with the other. I thought he was going to offer congratulations; instead he ignored our handshakes and glared at Dan, “So, Don, I see you have my Champion of Champions award; be a good boy and hand it over!” For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now 72
73 T H E P U R P O S E F U L P R I M I T I V E Silence…I didn’t know if I had heard him right or if Virtanen was aware of the racial insensitivity he was displaying towards my African-American comrade, but he spoke good English and he knew our swear words and slang so I always suspected he knew what he was saying. I instinctively settled into a back-loaded fighting stance as I really thought these nasty, inebriated Finns were going to throw down on us. One of our young team managers innocently wandered into our midst, drunk, laughing and began poking the stock still Austin with a playful finger, this distracted him enough to break the deadly mood. I’ve always wondered if Virtanen’s real intention was to pick a fight at the awards banquet. That would have been one hell of a Pier Nine bench-clearing brawl. There was no love lost between the Finns and us. The Russians would have loved a reason to mix it up with their Finnish northern neighbors. Whereas the Russians and the Ukrainian’s were fierce competitors, they were good guys immediately after the competition. The Finns and the Russians had some serious differences of opinion about everything. The US lifters were hated because we always stood between the Finns and the World Team Title. Too bad! I drank hard with Kirk and the Russians (what a combination) and the next day was a hangover blur. We had to commence our god-awful trip home, this time exhausted and with exploding heads. It was a terrible way to end a successful trip. 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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