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An HIT Workout Video Manifesto

As far as I know, I have more HIT workouts on video than anyone else in the world. This post is all of them in one spot, from (approximately) oldest to most recent.

These videos not only represent advances in the workout technically, but significant physical growth — which is pretty cool to actually see on video, step by step, month by month, year by year.

My diet has changed relatively little during this time, and the frequency has stayed pretty constant, at about once a week (or even less often).

In an effort to keep these videos from loading on the front page of this blog, I am going to paste AWESOME enough times to make them appear in the full post only.

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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…

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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 …

Exercise in the exact sense, is a form of physical activity.
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