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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.

What is Functional Strength?

Marty Gallagher

Functional Strength, as the name implies, is first and foremost, a comprehensive, multidimensional method for the creation of strength. In our world, there are three separate and distinct types of strength; each of these three prototypical strength types combine improve…

Dorian Yates Training

Marty Gallagher

The Olympian Dominator: Breathtaking muscular size and always the lowest body fat percentile of any man onstage. Yates was the King of Bodybuilders, yet unlike so many elite bodybuilders, Dorian was never an adulation junkie. He had an intense personality…

Turn Weakness into Strength

Marty Gallagher

What’s the toughest lesson to learn in all of fitness-dom? Prioritizing weaknesses & not continually playing to our strengths. Let’s loop back around to human nature: the reason we are strong in certain areas and weak in others relates directly…

Mark Chaillet | Powerlifting Ultra Minimalist

Marty Gallagher

Mark maintains perfect push position with 1,000 pounds as Buck Chaillet watches the depth while leaning against the locker room wall. I knelt and took this shot while simultaneously giving him the UP! signal after he reached legl, IPF, below…

High Intensity Training Parable

Marty Gallagher

In my experience there are two distinct types of post-weight training aftershock: direct muscle soreness (DMS) and deep muscle fatigue (DMF). Both are the result of training intensely enough to trigger muscle hypertrophy. High repetition training is the culprit for…

Bill Pearl | Anti-Aging Role Model

Marty Gallagher

Behold the prototypical power physique. This is the body all the boys and men wanted. The Herculean look is always the preferred look amongst real men. Taken circa 1965, Bill was as strong as he looked. Weighing 240 pounds at…

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Definition of a Renaissance Man – Hugh Cassidy

Marty Gallagher

Above – Hugh Cassidy locks out 775 poundsCassidy’s Lair – The Eternal Solution for Forced Evolution Saturday, July 1980For five years, in the late 70s and early 1980s, every Saturday, weather permitting, I would drive my 1966 Nassau blue fastback…

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