[I offer the photo of the 58-year-old me not to say “Dig me” so much as “Dig what is possible with remarkably little perceived effort.” For the whole skinny, read on.] 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 sure 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 is 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 enviable 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 harde
[Best consumed with the blog entry Men That Gave Jack Dempsey Pause & An Education and for the actual visual detailed how-to’s see Timber Beast & Mucker “Rail Fighting.” For a podcast episode on the topic .] Any thrower of hands is likely familiar with Jack Dempsey’s “Falling Step”, that bit of “controlled unbalancing” he [and many an early fighter] used to stack power into forward driven punches. The Falling Step is not a mere stamping of the foot ala show-wrestling ballyhoo theatrics; that is, there is more to the Falling Step than the falling forward aspect. Dempsey’s Falling step was informed by his background as a Mining Mucker, and brief forays into lumberjacking. He makes no claims as to having invented the Faling Step, in fact, he is open and up front about its origins in the Lumberjack Milieu and the spice of pickaxe work among Muckers. [Again, I heartily encourage you to see the aforementioned material to really seat what follows. Men That Gave Jack Dem