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"But, this is how I know you didn't do it…"
Sometimes, I answer too many questions. My wife, as many of you know, was/is a Hemingway…yes THOSE Hemingways…and I need to practice talking like Uncle Earnie:
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You see, it comes to this sometimes: people ask me questions because their mouths can formulate noises and these noises can heard by my ears to make my brain work. The questioner has the ability to literally ask anything as my friend Crazy Jerry used to say: "You have a Toyota in your nose." You can say the sentence, but it means nothing.
I have this believe that you can only train HARD in blocks of two, four, six and, maybe, eight weeks. Then, you slide back to "medium." For dieting purposes, the great ones get it: Atkins Two Week Induction is genius. Chris Shugart's Velocity Diet of 28 days of practically nothing but protein shakes works. After those short intense bouts with food, you are different: celery becomes butter and carrots are candy. It's hard to live normally like that. Now, we all know that the best diet and exercise program for fat loss is found in the book, "The Road." I enjoy telling people it is a delightful comedy…
Most of the time, you need to do those wonderful workouts that I love to call "Punch the Clock" workouts. I suggest doing all the basic human movements, work on your issues with corrective work as you need it, improve your technique on one or two exercises, break a good solid sweat and get the heart rate up and pat yourself wisely on the back. As I said in a recent interview, most people have three hard workouts a year: Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the first week of January and they put it off again until next New Year's Day.
I think 200 easy workouts a year or even as few as 150 (three times a week with a little vacation) trumps those three hard ones each and every time. Of course, with "easy" and "hard" and "medium, your mileage may vary, but you get the point.
Oh, I LOVE hard workouts. I have dozens of them that I can give you. But, well, that's the issue. My program, Mass Made Simple, is NOT the kind of thing one should attempt lightly. I get emails with "I can't squat," "I don't have a bar," or "I don't want to lift heavy" and, frankly, this is not the Mass Made Simple Mentality. I think it would be possible to do MMS twice a year as a teen. After that, once a year would be a lot. It takes a lot of time, energy and discipline to do this program and it is a sell out system for six weeks.
I'm not sure you can do this and recover from hip surgery. I'm just guessing here, of course. This would be hard to do when on vacation. It would be really hard to do if you have six kids during Christmas.
What's my point. There...
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