Anthony Johnson | The Dream Lounge

 
Spent most of last week in Austin Texas for a few different reasons (including work for the upcoming Paleo FX event). While I was in town I managed to get in a workout at Efficient Exercise on the ARX machines. As usual, the workout insanely intense.

It doesn’t appear that way at first glance, but that’s the truth. What’s ironic is how much more intense working out on these machines is, compared to what is traditionally considered “intense”; nonsense like “fitness bootcamps”, P90X, “zumba”, “spin classes”, and on and on.

Physical activities like those are hardly a drop in the bucket compared to 5 minutes on an ARX. Good luck explaining that to somebody neck deep in conventional ‘fitness’ wisdom.

In case anyone is wondering, I prefer the Omni machine presented at The 21 Convention over these more bulky siblings. This warrants a separate post, but the primary reasons are that I prefer doing a belt squat over a leg press, and with the Omni,…

I’ve always loved Body by Science. Come January 2012, it will be 3 years since I read through it front to back in a bookstore, before then buying it, and implementing the guidelines presented in the book. During this time I’ve averaged a once a week workout. Over the past 18 months, that average is probably closer to a solid 9 to 10 days between sessions.

My most recent workout however was a clean 7 days — something I have not done in a while, perhaps 4-5 months. Needless to say, my performance was sub-par, I felt physically unprepared to workout on that day, and now 8 days later, I am still noticeably sore. My conclusion (more of a reminder having already known this from past experience), is that a week between workouts is not sufficient recovery for my body from my standard workout.

To the lay reader, this sounds absurd. A week between workouts isn’t enough?

Nope, not even for a 23 year old young male like myself,…

Drew Baye recently published a post titled “Why NOT High Intensity Training?“. The timing could not be more perfect. Not more perfect because I had been wanting to make a similar case here on TDL for a few weeks now. The case that by labeling real and proper exercise, “high intensity”, we are in fact perpetuating the insanity that is status-quo exercise lore, myth, and superstition.

In fact, even labeling exercise as “proper” or “real”, or any such thing, only reveals how young the subject matter is, and how utterly ignorant the majority of those who claim to know something about it are. For example, children are not taught “real” addition, subtraction, and multiplication — or “intense” division.

Nor is anyone learning “the secrets of the alphabet” in grade school. Such ideas are nonsensical and ridiculous to us.

And the same attitude must be applied to exercise if the science is to ever drown out the voodoo-shamans of our day like Tony Horton, Jillian Michaels, P90Shit, Insanity Home Stupidity, and thousands of other witch doctors claiming to know anything…