HIT has always been the way.

March 31th

" younger women,faster airplanes, bigger crocodiles"

Authur Jones motto.

WO du jour:

warmup: dips, back extensions, situps, KB joint mobility.

"bad Fran"

For time 21-21-21-21reps

KB 2-20kg thrusters

Pullups:

16:22 Not and easy session. last two sets of thrusters make you want to cry.

I could write endless stories about Arthur Jones, known for his Nautilus fitness equipment. A high school drop out who never made it past 9th grade, but was making 300 millions dollars a year selling has Nautilus machines. Bush Pilot in Africa, carried a .45 pistol all the time, had one of the largest Private exotic animal farms in the county. Arthur Jones was one of the first to promote HIT or low rep, heavy weight, high intense resistance training.

Prior to the 1970, you never saw a machine in any YMCA or gym in the US, the only fitness equipment was free weights and maybe a pulley arrangement. Arthur Jones is almost single handed changed the way we train in fitness clubs with his 30 min. circuit of machines still in vogue.

All you have to do is meet the guy once and you will walk away always remembering the encounter. I first met Arthur Jones through the exotic animal business, but later become involved in the Nautilus club business as one of the trainers. I did not stay with it long even though high intense training was the way to go, just not with machines.

He died rich in Aug 2007 at the age of 81.

So the next time you are using a fitness machine in a club, like Nautilus or Hammer Strength( owned by Jones' son) it is the brain child of a high school dropout, who smoked cigarettes, lived on coffee and scrambled eggs, hunted wild animals in Africa,flew big jets for fun, walks around with a .45 in his belt, and married 6 women ages 16-21 you can thank Mr. Jones.