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I R O N E S S A Y S Hugh Cassidy was instrumental in helping me shape my craft. He focused my thoughts in my initial articles. He tore my prose apart as surely as he tore me apart in the gym. He was a tough taskmaster who taught me that the goal was clear communication and communicating trumped trying to impress. In the intervening decade I continued a parallel course: furthering my own competitive aspirations while writing about what I learned from the world’s best. I had ambitions and was driven to learn more and more and more. This made me an ideal interviewer. I knew my stuff and when I talked with athletes about their training they sensed immediately that I understood them. I created persuasive and compelling articles because I took the time to capture their idiosyncrasies, patois and mannerisms. I related with precision and care what it was about their training or nutrition that differentiated one great athlete from another. I would suppose that it is no exaggeration to say that I have interviewed over 1,000 athletes about how and why they train the way they do, about how and why they eat the way they eat. I also had the privilege of coaching hall-of-fame strength athletes, often in the very competitions at which they turned in their all-time best performances. Certain men, it seems, are driven to improve upon the human body they are given. I was one of them. What was it that drove myself and men like me? What was it that I was writing about? Was there an irreducible core question? Is that not the question: how best do we trigger physical transformation? I made my bones by competing, by observing, by listening and by trying new things. I have come to a basic conclusion that in this day and age of unlimited choices and unlimited distractions, some very important and productive strategies have been obfuscated, discarded or ignored. I have come full circle in my attitudes and choices and now feel certain that those who earnestly seek to transform themselves physically can benefit from using my Retro Man Methodology, much of what I first stumbled on as a boy-child. Those ancient methods turned out to be timeless. If you scrape away all the different rationale and reasons people engage in fitness-related activities, the bottom line is that they want to modify their physique, change their body from what it is into what they want it to be. Being dissatisfied with their physical status quo, they will rearrange their lives and devote time, money and effort towards triggering transformation. In almost every case they fail miserably. People who successfully transform physically transform psychologically. I’ve seen this phenomenon occur repeatedly: self image undergoes an astounding metamorphosis when a successful physical metamorphosis is achieved. People who make radical physical changes reinvent themselves, not just physically but psychologically and emotionally as well. For complete information on Marty Gallagher’s The Purposeful Primitive, or to purchase the physical book, visit http://www.dragondoor.com/b37.html now 8
9 T H E P U R P O S E F U L P R I M I T I V E For 45 years I’ve been in hot pursuit of those methods and modes that trigger physical transformation. I have come to the conclusion that the finest methods for triggering true transformations are based on modified versions of those ancient, purposefully primitive ultra-basic modes of training and eating I first stumbled upon four decades ago. People nowadays chase their metaphorical tails in feverish pursuit of change, using fragmented and ineffectual methods. There are just too many choices and too many slick marketers with silky smooth raps that they relate with great conviction. They tell the gullible with pompous profundity that they have discovered a secret method. They disguise fallacious facts with absurd pseudo science and are seductive and persuasive. People run in crazed circles all around the fitness Mulberry Bush, chasing one exotic mode, method, procedure or product after another. They all seek the mythical magic bullet of fitness: a method or mode that will enable them to effect a transformation without the disciplined deprivation, without the teeth-grinding physical effort, without the struggle. Life is struggle. I love what my Purposefully Primitive brother-in-arms, Ori Hofmekler says, “Life in paradise should be rugged!” We are primordially programmed for struggle yet we seek to avoid struggle at all cost. Struggle is the precursor to true transformation: without struggle there is no transformation. 45 years later and so many of those ancient adolescent epiphanies still ring true and still strike me as profound. Basic barbell and dumbbell exercises done with incredible intensity then backed up with lots of calories result in the construction of new muscle. If you are selective about the ample calories you eat, if you practice periodic cardiovascular exercise, stored body fat is mobilized and oxidized. If eating and training are perfectly attuned to one another, synergy takes hold and results are dramatically accelerated. Significant change without significant struggle is a fitness myth perpetuated by people looking to sell you products. When I thought about writing this book, I posed myself a question: how simple could the transformational process be made without losing effectiveness? What would you need? How little could you get by with, in terms of tools, time, and effort? The answer was you would need a barbell and food from the grocery store. No need for personal trainers; no need for a gym membership; no need for a treadmill; no need for miracle devices or magic bullet products. You need a few tools, some regular food and a plan. I can provide the plan. 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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