Indigenous Ability

I am a content man as I… ·          Never have to run another step, hit another burpee, or sweat another HIIT session again. [High Intensity Interval Training.] ·          I have kicked a two-doctor consult of, “ Looks like we need to replace that hip cuz you won’t be doin’ much on it”  down the road for close to four years. [Still may happen, just sayin’ already do far more than pre-diagnoses with far less trouble.] ·          Keep in mind, I was told a cane was in order to make it thru an amusement park to watch my daughter ride rides. ·          I swim rivers, free-dive oceans, hike miles in canyonland at elevation, climb and skitter cliff face without apparent hiccup in hip or, here’s the important part—perceived increased effort via non-specific cardio output at times under elevation. ·          The Grand Experiment of Turning this Old Body over to nothing but Old School Unleaded Conditioning began just before my 54 th  birthday. [58 years-old at the moment.] ·        

  Eugen Sandow [This offering can be consumed independently BUT, it is best read as a companion to the blog/podcast titled  Three Old School Principles You MUST Have to Un-Stick Your PT .  Following this a browse of any of our old school Unleaded Conditioning articles will add bolstering support. Surface understanding serves no good purpose.]    Performance Cars & Performance Bodies We start our engines at Le Mans, France where beginning in 1923, world class drivers came to test themselves in a 24-hour endurance race. Where many races are tests of speed over a course of limited laps, Le Mans ups the ante and asks for speed, of course, but also endurance of both the car and tests the stamina of the flesh and blood piloting that car. For any who doubt that performance driving is a physical endeavor, might I suggest enrolling in a Rally Driving Course, put yourself mid-pack at speed for even a mere 10 laps, I wager your estimation of the physical demands will change. All W

  We could easily have titled this one, “ The Primacy of the Posterior Chain in Combat Conditioning ” but that’s a little less sexy than the chosen one. Let us breakdown that opening salvo through the prism of Old School Conditioning, and to be clear, when I say Old School, I’m talking pre- “ I use a little help, ” in other words, all work and no dietary or supplemental juju, not even creatine. That’s right, one can reap results on pure ol’ Southern Soul Food, heaps of BBQ, and a dessert each night even at an age when the loss of muscle mass due to aging is supposed to rear its head. [Sarcopenia is the technical word for this creeping loss of muscle mass that sets in after 40—for the record I’m 57-years-old at the time of this offering, so around 17 years into tissue entropy.] Side-Bar for Bra Sizes : A casual comparison of photos between early physical culturists and the beginning of the Modern Era of bodybuilding where drug-use begins to rear its head, we see a few differences