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An "Intra-Muscular" Hack by Mark Hatmaker

 

Unleaded Conditioning Tip #8 [8 of 99] by Mark Hatmaker

[Excerpted from the upcoming Unleaded: Whole Hog-- The Support Manual.] Wanna lose fat with no work? With no formal cardio? While increasing calories? Then gain lean muscle. OK, there is a slight cheat on this Tip, but only slight. Here’s what I mean. The current “Tried & True” formula for losing fat is… ·         Reduce caloric intake. ·         Increase caloric expenditure. ·         Reducing caloric intake, aka, dietary restriction, aka denying the self-waging that never-ending war of the will between you and the fast food burger. ·         The caloric expenditure usually takes the form of aerobic exercise, aka, “cardio.” ·         The more calories burned the better. But… ·         What if I were to tell you the Old Schoolers had ways of increasing ca...

Unleaded Conditioning Tip #13 [13 of 99] by Mark Hatmaker

  [Excerpted from the upcoming Unleaded: Whole Hog-- The Support Manual.] Do It Right or Don’t Do It. This rule has also been phrased as “You can't compensate for piss-poor effort on your sets by doing more sets.” ·         It is NOT the length of a training session that dictates progress, in fact,… ·         If one is drug-free, extended sessions work against your progress. ·         It is NOT necessarily a function of the intensity of the training session [be that intensity defined in form of poundage or High-Intensity Interval Training HIIT], again… ·         If drug-free, focusing on redlining can inhibit, slowdown, and be counter-productive to your goals. ·         The Do It Right Rule asks for intensity of focus, and fulcrum-tweaked “perceived” intensity that allows joints, tendons, and lig...

Unleaded Conditioning Tip #15 [15 of 99] by Mark Hatmaker

  [ Excerpted from the upcoming Unleaded: Whole Hog-- The Support Manual.] Unleaded Conditioning Tip #15 When you want to lose fat, move more, but don't train more. Yeah, I hear ya, sounds like a paradox, or at the very least a Zen Koan that is more intended to confound than impart wisdom. But I assure you the opening statement is truth. A verified scientific fact. One known by the Old School Boxers, Wrestlers, Combination Men, Rough n Tumblers of yore. Little ado was made of “cardio” in 18 th and 19 th century thought and yet we wind up with staggering feats of endurance in treacherous environments with little [if any] “dedicated training.” We see enviably lean and mean physiques in early physical culturists decades before the advent of anabolic “helpers” hell, not even a scoop of creatine in sight. Often the assumption is that these early hellions simply trained harder and longer but…the record does not bear that out. A careful examination of these feats ...

How to Stop & Reverse Panic/Situational Anxiety by Mark Hatmaker

  A couple of things first… Thing 1 —The most recent issue of The Backwoodsman Magazine contains another of our frontier scoutcraft articles—a preview of what’s to be found in the upcoming book on the topic. Things 2 —Just like the old Burger King slogan “ Have it your way!” The Black Box Subscription Service always aims to oblige. We offer a brand-new premium volume each and every month of the year [have been for over two decades] it comes automatically to subscribers but…if the current volume does not fit your current training bill, drop me a line with your alternate pick from any of our 250+ back-titles and we’ll make it happen no sweat. We always look out for The Black Box Brotherhood. I’m obliged to you! Now on to our regularly schedule program… How to Induce a Panic Attack or Vice Versa Panic, anxiety, and an overall feeling of unease are seemingly more prevalent than one might assume. In fact, according to sources such as the American Psychiatric Associatio...

Unleaded: Whole Hog--Block 1

  The Old Man Invites You to Sub-30 Minute Conditioning aka “A New Y-O-U in Six Months” YOU--“ Hey, Old Man, I see lots of Unleaded Conditioning stuff spread throughout your store. Not sure where to dial in, is there a single go-to you’d recommend?” ME--“ Glad you asked. Let me hep you to something coming soon.” Unleaded: The Whole Hog What’s that? Here goes… ·         A complete 24-week conditioning course. [That’s a full six-months, Kids.] ·         All based on Old School physical culturist principles. ·         24-weeks broken into 6 four-week Blocks. ·         Each 4-week Block [Block I-VI] gives you a complete 5-days per week training template. ·         Each day is broken into a specific conditioning focus—complete reps, counts, sets, & rest times are provided. ·   ...