Indigenous Ability

Neuroscientist, Scott Grafton, has gifted the empirically thoughtful and scientifically literate a volume that is chockful of provoking information. The book, Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life , makes a case that smashes a bit of that Cartesian duality mind-body separation nonsense that many armchair philosophers wheedle and wrangle over till the cows come home. Mr. Grafton, warns that perhaps the cows will never come home if we stay mired in “ This is mind stuff ” and “ This is physical body stuff .” He demonstrates more than capably and quite convincingly that we need to recognize that mind directs the body [no argument there I wager] but also what makes up a large part of our mental intelligence is how the body bolsters and interacts with the mind even in areas you might have formerly considered mere intellectual matters. The volume is full of provoking/enlightening observations throughout.  Let’...

The Michigan Assassin’s Unlucky Meeting w/ Mr. Royal Burpee Belly up to the bar my stalwart ones, today’s challenge is a combination of a hypothetical meeting between Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel and Royal H. Burpee, the man purported to have contributed to the world the compact evil that bears his name. Mr. Ketchel [as we have documented elsewhere] used to throw boulders to build wind and explosive punching power. Seems to have worked for him. So, who are we to argue with old school true? The Gear ·         You ·         50-lb slam ball, rock, cinder block, or some other heft worthy stand-in. ·         Space to fling and break stuff. The Protocol ·         Drop and hit 13 of Mr. Royal’s invention. ·         Then pick up your “boulder” and hurl it for all you...

First, that title is a lie, there will be exactly two-steps taken. After that, any and all steps taken in addition is a signpost where your body broke and what you want to work on. This is a three-exercise warm-up that will wake-up all those lovely major muscle groups, provide some active stretching, wake-up that spine, and tell your heart and lungs it’s “Go time!” When done to protocol and speed it is a sub-5-minute warm-up.  Keeping it under 5-minutes [or as close to 5 as you can manage] allows you more time to work on the heavy-hitters of strength and tactical cultivation. The good news about the Never-Stake-a-Step Regimen is that it serves as a nice just below the redline cardio burner and is enough of a muscle pusher that those into somatotropics should find it a utilitarian muscle-builder. Note: This is not meant as a cardio-replacer in and of itself but…if you hit this Sub-5 with good protocol 3-days per week and use Blitz Drills on altern...