Lunch With Marty Gallagher

I had lunch with Marty Gallagher yesterday.If you dont know Marty, he was Kirk Karwoski's coach for years and a helluva writer and a champ in his own right.. His "Purposeful Primitive" is a great book. We met to talk about a fiction book that I am writing. That was cool, but the best part of hanging out with Marty are the stories from yesteryear. The man has been around for a long time. I am sure that I am screwing the exact numbers up-but at one point at Chaillet's Gym in Prince Georges County, Maryland in the early 80's there was like 8 guys training at the same time who deadlifted over 700 pounds, and at least 2 guys over 800 pounds. The intensity in that room must have been amazing. I could sit there and listen to the stories for hours. We were in the middle of all of this and Marty gets up and goes to his car and gets his laptop. He had the rough draft of "Purposeful Primitive II" for me to peruse. The pictures alone- of Coan, Yates, Kirk, Chaillet are so inspitrational that you feel like squatting as soon as you are done looking at them. And the content is outstanding. I left him yesterday with tons of new motivation to train. Sometimes you need that: little kicks in the butt that keep you moving along. Thanks Marty.