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Author: Marty Gallagher

Marty Gallagher has been in the iron game for over 55 years as an athlete, coach and writer. As a young lifter he met and watched some of the greatest lifters in the world. He learned strength strategies from these men that would serve him for the next 50 years. This strength and power tradecraft came from master lifters whose only allegiance was to progress. These ultra-basic strength strategies serve as the foundation for the strength strategies he champions and represents to this day.

Old School Training – Core4

Marty Gallagher

Building MuscleLet us be clear on what a sensible progressive resistance program will and will not do: a sensible weight training program builds and strengthens the 600 plus muscles of the human body. Weight training alone will not make you…

Big Green Egg Adventures – Chicken

Marty Gallagher

Chicken Quest – In eternal pursuit of the perfectly prepared bird!Roast Chicken: one of life’s supreme culinary pleasures. I have been a rabid fan of chicken since my youthful days eating my Arkansas grandmother Rutha McAbee’s (born 1898) sublime skillet-fried chicken,…

Purposeful Primitive Power Nutrition

Marty Gallagher

How to Infuse ‘Diet Foods’ with Taste Peasant Cooking Virtuoso: My grandmother at age 85 at her Arkansas home. She was 1/4 Cherokee and her job was cooking for the field hands. Born in 1896, she became expert at preparing…

Hugh Cassidy – Iron Master

Marty Gallagher

Cassidy pulls 790 to win the world championships in 1971. Tough freaking competition: Jim Williams and John Kuc! Hugh pushed his weight to 292 using sumo wrestler eating tactics and a bare bones approach to lifting that was rooted in…

Purposeful Primitive Roots

Marty Gallagher

Here I am winning the IPF World Championships as a master lifter in Australia in 1992. This is my opening 272.5 kilo deadlift. I weighted 212. I had lost 13 pounds on the trip and lifted just enough to win.…

Duke Nukem – Trains, Eats, Chills

Marty Gallagher

BORN ALPHA!It was a perfect Saturday morning in late September. Bob “Nacho” Del Grande and his old training partner Bobby aka Duke Nukem, both friends of mine, had come to visit and train with me at my home at the…

Duke Nukem – Unleashes Hell

Marty Gallagher

james brown “I might not know Ka-ra-tay but I know Cra-zee!” Duke Nukem took a pull on his Tiparillo, exhaled and provided context. “My wife and I went to the movie theatre at the local mall to see some action…

High Intensity Training – 1K Calorie Burn

Marty Gallagher

Periodically I like to see how long it takes me to oxidize 1,000 calories in a cardio session. A lot of fitness experts point out that the calorie counting gauges on commercially available heart rate monitors are guesstimates at best and…

Blank Mind – Quiet the Observer

Marty Gallagher

Mental hemispheres: the intuitive, artistic, right-brain/left-hand shares space with the logical, calculating, left-brain/right-hand. Intuition and artistic innovation arise in the gaps between thoughts.It is a hard concept for folks to wrap their head around, this idea that the ideal headspace,…

Old School Training – Progressive Pulls

Marty Gallagher

In my opinion the most effective single progressive resistance routine ever devised specifically for building the muscles of the back are progressive pulls. I was exposed to this routine around 1965 in an article in Strength & Health magazine. In…

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