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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 …

 

  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…

Leg Press vs Squat: The Spine Explored

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

 
I used to squat. Not anymore.

Check out my interview with Bill here and the follow up on Conditioning Research.

There is also a very old interview with Bill from none other than Doug McGuff MD here.

16 Pounds of Muscle in 16 Months

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Nutrition

From Florida to Sweden, doing the mind numbingly simple exercises you see above – about once a week (or less) – I built ~16 pounds of muscle in ~16 months time.

I did it with less dietary carbohydrate per week than most people eat in a single day, and more saturated fat per day, than some eat in an entire month.

In other words, I stimulated and allowed for the growth of ~16 pounds of new muscle, in direct opposition to the prevailing conventional wisdom.

99% of “personal trainers”, “body builders”, “nutritionists”, and “dieticians” would tell you what I have done is impossible, and quickly dismiss it as a lie, or superior genetics (labeling me an anomaly instead of the norm).

Indeed, quite the opposite is true.

  • What I have accomplished is very possible for the average joe.
  • I would sooner stab myself than lie.
  • I grew up a fat kid. While some parts of my…