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Bowflex Killer — World Premiere of the ARX Fit Omni Machine

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, The 21 Convention

 
It’s finally here, the world premiere of the ARX Fit Omni Machine - also known as the bowflex killer. Come one, come all, see how the world’s most advanced home exercise machine works in action with a live audience, and as supervised/operated by Keith Norris.

Per the video description…

Keith Norris, physical culturalist, author, and general manager at Efficient
Exercise (Austin Texas), gives the world premiere of the ARX Fit Omni
Machine at The 21 Convention 2011 of Orlando, Florida, united States of America.

The ARX Fit Omni © is a revolutionary new home-exercise machine that
employs motorized resistance across a wide range of movements, providing
a perfectly (and uniquely) matched strength curve across a complete — or
limited — range of motion.

Called “the bowflex killer” by 21 Convention architect and founder Anthony
Dream Johnson, the ARX Fit Omni © machine is making waves in the universe of
proper exercise, strength training, and sport performance.

Supplying a level of effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and intensity found in no
other machine in the world, the ARX Fit Omni may…

Thank “God”, Exercise Defined

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

A video still from the upcoming video release: the Arx Fit Omni World Unveiling

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Joe A posted the following (link). I found it appropriate to share as a main post. In the words of James Steele, bravo!

Underscoring and bolding added by me.

“I’m not sure there can really be one universal definition of exercise”

The health/wellness industry’s lack of properly defining concepts is a big problem. Exercise must have a definition or it has no identity. In that case, everything is exercise and nothing is exercise. This ambiguity has led to much confusion on the part of, not only the exercisers, but more notably those attempting to prescribe it.

A definition does not constrain a concept, as you suggest. It distinguishes it, allowing appropriate variation without bastardizing its core purpose. Think about a chair; there is a universally accepted concept of what a chair is. That doesn’t mean all chairs are the same. Different chairs have different applications; some are not appropriate for some people;…

20 Pages of Notes on Dr. McGuff’s Speech

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Nutrition

Tim Horine from http://www.menspsychology.com/ wrote 20 pages of notes on Dr. McGuff’s speech. They are below as was sent to me (which is raw and not edited for grammar/spelling). I’m assuming they are pretty awesome regardless. Cheers. Oh, and here is the speech if you haven’t seen it yet.

 

T21C Day 3 July 25th 2010: Doug McGuff

 

“Doug is one of the wisest men of our time, and so underappreciated and undervalued, its almost indescribable.” – Anthony Dream Johnson.

 

Doug did HIT 3 times/week during college, medschool, upper 30s

 

1) have the opportunity to hear it

2) to actually have listened to it

it would have been amazing how much Doug’s Life would have progressed.

 

Arthur Jones Nautilus HIT training camp, but it was 15-20 different movements, 3 days/week through college, medschool, residency, late 30s early 40s, and felt like hammered dogshit.

-If he knew the minimal amount necessary to trigger adaptive response and get enough rest.

All of his life would have been much more enjoyable in a recovered state.

 

Everything that…

HIT Workout Updates

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

 

Every few months I film one of my workouts, post it online, and discuss the workout as it currently stands.

 

This is one of those posts.

 

To catch those not up to speed on my convictions concerning exercise …

 

  1. Exercise in the exact sense, is a form of physical activity.
  2. Physical activity, in the exact sense, is not exercise.

 

Sound reasonable?

 

It is, however, conventional wisdom dictates the opposite. The underlying, basic premise that is commonly accepted today is that “exercise” is anything – that no exact definition exists, that it is a matter of subjective opinion and not objective fact.

 

Notice the trend? You should, because we see the same phenomenon with

 

  • Food
  • Love
  • Rape
  • Sex
  • Health
  • Fitness
  • Diet

 

and so on.

 

Apparently black and white facts do no exist. “Anything is anything”. Or more precisely, everything is a giant, bland mush of gray nothing.

 

Horse shit.

 

Knowledge exists. Nature exists. Existence exists. And man has the capacity to understand these things through the faculty of his reasoning mind.

 

Exercise is NOT “anything”.

 

Exercise is not “anything that makes…