The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist

He started researching how to improve endurance without overtraining and found a formula that worked: moving around a lot at a low level of activity, lifting heavy things only once in a while, and sprinting once a week. The key to endurance training, he says, is low-level training combined with occasional all-out, really hard training. That was how

From a training perspective, my workouts haven’t changed since day one. My emphasis has always been on doing slow and controlled movements. Two seconds up and two seconds down is the cadence that encourages stability firing for growth hormone up-regulation as well as a greater level of fatigue. The main objective is not to “do reps,” but to get to

A proper exercise routine should bleed into one’s overall lifestyle, including aerobic work (such as long walks, hikes, and biking to and from work) and concentrated anaerobic exertion.

“Ideal training involves changing just one of many variables, until that variable reaches a constant,” writes Dr. Laurence Morehouse. “Then you change another, and then another until you reach your goal.”