| The Purposeful Primitive approach to the
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| | lackadaisical fashion. Those of us who
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| art and science of physical renovation is
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| | belong to commercial gyms have no doubt
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| deceptively simplistic. By using a few
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| | noted that the vast majority of regular
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| basic tools and food purchased from the
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| | members never ever change physically
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| grocery store, you can radically alter
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| | despite being diligent and regular in
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| the way you look while simultaneously
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| | their training. These diligent gym goers
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| improving health, vitality and energy
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| | stay the same for very real physiological
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| levels. The Primitive approach has two
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| | reasons: the human body does not
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| irreducible goals: tone, strengthen and
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| | transform itself in response to sameness;
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| increase muscle mass and function, and
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| | the human body changes its molecular
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| the systematic reduction of body fat.
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| | structure only in response to the
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| This methodology has been used by the
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| | self-inflicted trauma of intense physical
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| athletic elite for decades and is shorn
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| | effort.This is an inconvenient
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| of fluff and bloat.There are three core
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| | fact-of-life that promoters of commercial
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| elements to any effective fitness
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| | product gloss over or purposefully
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| regimen: progressive resistance training,
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| | obfuscate. They want you to believe that
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| cardiovascular training and nutrition .
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| | their miracle product will allow you to
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| These are the three legs of the Fitness
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| | by-pass all the blood, sweat and tears
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| Triad. A Purposeful Primitive uses an
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| | associated with true transformation. Wish
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| unending rotation of simple yet effective
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| | it we so but this is the number one
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| methods within each of the three Triad
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| | fitness myth. Intense training effort
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| component disciplines. Inter-related and
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| | must be coordinated with a disciplined
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| inter-locking, the three disciplines
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| | approach to nutrition.The Purposeful
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| compliment, stimulate and accelerate
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| | Primitive understands that intense
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| progress when linked and executed in a
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| | physical effort is required trigger
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| balanced, sane fashion.The goal is to
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| | muscle hypertrophy and intense effort is
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| establish physical momentum and then keep
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| | required to mobilize and oxidize stored
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| the progress ball rolling.Any fitness
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| | body fat. The tools needed need not be
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| expert worth their salt will tell you is
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| | sophisticated but the intensity generated
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| that stagnation is always just around the
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| | need be sufficient to pull the
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| corner. The typical trainee finds a
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| | hypertrophy trigger.Generating training
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| particular weight training routine,
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| | intensity is a learned trait and need not
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| cardio routine or diet that they like and
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| | be hurtful, harmful or injurious. The
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| then proceed to stick with it for far too
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| | good news is that by training intensely
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| long. The dirty little secret of fitness
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| | we need not train often - in fact by
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| is that almost any program of diet will
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| | training as hard as we should in our
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| produce results for the first 3-6 weeks.
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| | progressive resistance training, too much
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| By exposing the body to a new and
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| | training done too often is down right
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| different mode of behavior (regular
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| | counter-productive.Cardiovascular
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| training, disciplined eating) progress
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| | training, a.k.a. aerobics, are an
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| will occur.The problem is the human body
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| | indispensable leg of the fitness triad.
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| is remarkably adaptive and from the time
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| | Progressive resistance training builds
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| you begin using the new procedure, be it
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| | and strengthens the 600+ muscles on the
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| a weight training regimen, new aerobic
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| | human body; cardiovascular training
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| routine or the latest diet craze, the
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| | improves circulatory function, builds the
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| body is seeking to neutralize the impact.
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| | internal heart pump muscle, increases the
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| If you stay with the new training or
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| | size of capillaries and prevents
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| eating approach long enough the human
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| | hardening of arterial walls. In addition
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| body will find a way to 'normalize' what
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| | aerobic activity burns calories and
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| was once radical and effective. For this
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| | elevates the basal metabolic rate. Cardio
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| reason just about any new fitness or
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| | exercise is the perfect complement to
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| eating regimen will yield results for the
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| | progressive resistance exercise -- one
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| first month or so. The inevitable problem
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| | exercise form provides what the other
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| is resistance to change: once the
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| | does not and vice versa. When both are
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| progress vein is exhausted, rather than
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| | practiced on a regular, systematic basis,
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| recognize stagnation and rotate in a
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| | the combination (in conjunction with
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| fresh new approach, trainees stick with
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| | performance eating) causes the body to
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| the now ineffectual mode.Among fitness
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| | respond to a degree that is not possible
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| adherents there is a disturbing and
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| | if one exercise form is practiced to the
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| predictable phenomenon: developing an
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| | exclusion of the other.PERFORMANCE EATING
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| unhealthy and counterproductive
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| | AND SKINNY-FAT PARADOX: Exercise need be
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| allegiance to a once-effective routine or
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| | coordinated with a specific eating
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| diet. Out of loyalty or a misguided sense
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| | strategy. Most will-driven, serious
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| of stick-to-it-ness, they take what was
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| | fitness adherents under-eat. You need to
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| once (and no longer is) effective and
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| | eat enough calories to support the
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| turn it into a religion.The Purposeful
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| | intense training. The combination of
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| Primitive recognizes that all routines
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| | intense exercise and too few calories is
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| and diets, no matter how sophisticated or
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| | a recipe for disaster. Catabolism takes
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| effective run their natural course and
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| | hold when the human body is over-worked
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| peter out. We recognize the indisputable
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| | and under-fed.In the PP lexicon we call
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| fact of life and always have another
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| | this 'prison camp' nutrition: work the
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| equally effective routine or eating
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| | prisoner to death through intense
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| strategy ready to roll out. Progress is
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| | physical activity then starve them. Oh
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| the most important product.ENTHUSIASM
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| | sure you will lose body weight by using
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| TRUMPS WILLPOWER EVERY SINGLE TIME!A key
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| | prison camp methodology but the result is
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| element to success is being able to
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| | the "skinny-fat" syndrome. Skinny-fat
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| develop a genuine enthusiastic love for
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| | occurs when the fitness adherent loses as
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| the physical renovation process. If you
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| | much or more muscle tissue as the do body
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| view the fitness as drudgery and dread
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| | fat during the dietary process. The end
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| the thought of training and hate the idea
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| | result is the individual ends up a
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| of preparing foods that enhance the
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| | miniaturized version of their old fat
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| performance-eating portion of the fitness
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| | self. True, they might lose 100-pounds of
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| equation, then you are doomed to
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| | body weight -- yet they still retain a
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| eventually quit.Those with fabulous
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| | high percentage of body fat. They have
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| willpower last longer then those with
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| | succeeded in replicating themselves in a
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| lesser mental discipline, but regardless,
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| | way that is lighter but still fat, fat,
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| all acts of will come to an end sooner or
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| | fat.The reason is rooted in simple
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| later. As any competent psychiatrist will
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| | physiology: when the body senses
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| attest that while willpower is great for
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| | starvation, as it does when a person
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| getting a life-changing process or
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| | slashes too many calories too quickly, a
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| procedure started, at some point in the
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| | primordial mechanism triggers that causes
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| foreseeable future, willpower and
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| | the body to hang onto body fat. Body fat
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| determination must morph into
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| | is form of fuel and the last line of
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| enjoyment.If you are able to develop
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| | defense against starvation. If a
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| enthusiasm (and love) for the process,
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| | starvation situation is sensed, the
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| effort will magically regenerate itself
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| | body's innate wisdom holds onto the fat
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| and develop a self-sustaining,
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| | at all cost.The body actually
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| self-regenerating momentum. When workouts
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| | cannibalizes muscle tissue to preserve
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| become enjoyable and something that you
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| | precious body fat. Rather than expend its
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| look forward to, when you look forward to
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| | precious body fat in the face of
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| eating great tasting diet meals that
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| | starvation, the body will strip muscles
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| happen to be good for you, the battle is
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| | of amino content to serves as fuel to
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| won. Physical transformation becomes not
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| | power activity. The PP avoids this
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| a matter or if but when. Variety is one
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| | metabolic catastrophe by never slashing
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| critical element to developing
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| | calories. If you train intensely you need
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| self-sustaining enthusiasm for the
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| | to eat. The PP loves to eat and eat
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| process.Expose yourself to a wide range
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| | often. Performance eating is the art and
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| of training modes and systems, and
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| | science of eating plenty of tasty food;
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| amongst them you will most certainly find
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| | yet paradoxically you are able to
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| one or more that you actually enjoy.
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| | simultaneously oxidize stored body fat.
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| Ditto for nutrition: the key to eating
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| | Sound impossible? Champion bodybuilders
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| correctly is taste. Learn how to prepare
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| | eat upwards of 10,000 calories a day
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| great tasting foods that also happen to
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| | while maintaining 4-8% body fat
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| be absolutely the perfect foods for you
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| | percentiles.How do they do this? Over
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| to consume. When all three elements are
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| | time they have build up the body's
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| in continual rotation and when you look
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| | ability to consume calories without
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| forward to engaging in each leg of the
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| | shuttling these calories into fat storage
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| Fitness Tripod then inevitably the human
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| | compartments. They have turned up the
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| body will undergo a positive molecular
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| | body's thermostat and burn tons of
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| transformation.PRIMITIVE SYNERGY: When
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| | calories while at rest. This is the
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| all three elements of the Purposefully
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| | opposite of an obese person's sluggish
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| Primitive fitness triad are in place and
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| | metabolism. A champion athlete burns
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| practiced in a balanced and proportional
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| | calories at a tremendous rate while an
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| fashion, a physical synergy occurs
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| | out-of-shape individual needs very few
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| wherein results exceed all realistic
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| | calories to exist. By engaging in intense
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| expectations . Better to do a bit of each
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| | physical activity and eating foods not
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| discipline than a whole lot of any one or
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| | easily converted in body fat the
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| two elements.Typically a fitness adherent
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| | Purposeful Primitive raises their basal
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| will latch onto one (or two) of the
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| | metabolic rate.Does this mean we want you
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| irreducible core elements and work the
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| | to eat 10,000 a day? Hardly, but in the
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| hell out of it. Unfortunately this
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| | finest tradition of Prometheus, the PP
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| approach will only get you so far. When
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| | will expropriate the tactical
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| progressive resistance training,
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| | architecture used by elite bodybuilders
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| cardiovascular training and performance
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| | to aid the average individual build
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| eating are all present and accounted for
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| | muscle, loss fat and stay healthy, sane
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| and executed in a systematic, balanced
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| | and gobbling ample amounts of tasty
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| fashion, results occur at a phenomenal
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| | food.PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
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| rate that has to be experienced to be
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| | Purposefully Primitive methods will work
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| believed.The Purposeful Primitive begins
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| | for you. Based in science and biology and
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| the transformation process by
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| | drenched in decades of hardcore empirical
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| realistically accessing how much time
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| | experience, this approach to physical
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| they have to devote on a weekly basis to
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| | renovation yields significant,
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| the total effort. Then the available time
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| | indisputable results in a short timeframe
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| is apportioned in a fairly equal way. The
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| | - provided you implement all three legs
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| PP allots time for meal preparation and
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| | of the fitness tripod in a balanced
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| grocery shopping and plans ahead on all
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| | fashion.Marty Gallagher is a former
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| fronts. Ample amounts of quality food
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| | fitness columnist for He is also a
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| need be prepared ahead of time, ready to
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| | former national and world champion
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| be consumed at a moment's notice. This
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| | powerlifter. Marty's articles have been
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| notion of balance and proportionality
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| | featured in Muscle Media, Muscle &
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| carries over into the composition of the
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| | Fitness, and Powerlifting USA magazines.
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| individual meals. Primitive tactics used
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| | His website, assimilates years of
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| in a balanced fashion create critical
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| | accumulated knowledge from the athletic
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| mass. Physical synergy is real and when
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| | elite and makes them accessible to the
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| achieved results occur rapidly.HOW WE
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| | common person. The "Purposeful Primitive"
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| TRAIN: Athletes know that training
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| | way has been proven effective time after
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| intensity is a force-multiplier. Better
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| | time after time for weight loss,
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| to have a second-rate training executed
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| | increasing muscle tone, and complete
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| with great physical intensity than a
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| | physical transformation.
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| super-sophisticated plan executed in a
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