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The Primer Phase
Have you ever noticed that as you diet, your body fights you?
Or how after a while high volume training beats you up? And you just don’t get as good progression as you used to?
This is a very real and known response, you see the body adapts, quite literally for survival. It doesn’t care if you want to be ripped and muscular, it will fight for homeostasis. Thus it can be very hard to keep moving towards our goals, quite often we end up not ever making it.
The Primer Phase is here to bridge that gap, to help keep you gaining muscle and losing fat. It resensitises pathways to make fat loss and muscle gain more efficient and ultimately achievable again.
It quite literally primes you for future success, this book gives you the how’s, why’s and everything inbetween.
Or how after a while high volume training beats you up? And you just don’t get as good progression as you used to?
This is a very real and known response, you see the body adapts, quite literally for survival. It doesn’t care if you want to be ripped and muscular, it will fight for homeostasis. Thus it can be very hard to keep moving towards our goals, quite often we end up not ever making it.
The Primer Phase is here to bridge that gap, to help keep you gaining muscle and losing fat. It resensitises pathways to make fat loss and muscle gain more efficient and ultimately achievable again.
It quite literally primes you for future success, this book gives you the how’s, why’s and everything inbetween.
25 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Steve Hall
156 books13 followersSteve Hall is Professor of Criminology in the Social Futures Institute. He is an internationally leading criminological researcher and theorist. His book Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture (Willan 2008, with Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum) has been described as ‘an important landmark in criminology’ and his most recent book Theorizing Crime and Deviance (Sage 2012) has been lauded as ‘a remarkable intellectual achievement’ that ‘rocks the foundations of the discipline’.
In the 1970s Steve worked as a professional musician and general labourer, and in the 1980s he worked in the field of rehabilitation and youth offending.
After graduating from university in 1991 with first class honours in sociology, he worked as a lecturer at Teesside from 1993, a member of the team that established the country’s first single-honours criminology degree. After spells as a senior research fellow at the University of Durham and a researcher and teacher at Northumbria University, he re-joined Teesside in 2010.
In the 1970s Steve worked as a professional musician and general labourer, and in the 1980s he worked in the field of rehabilitation and youth offending.
After graduating from university in 1991 with first class honours in sociology, he worked as a lecturer at Teesside from 1993, a member of the team that established the country’s first single-honours criminology degree. After spells as a senior research fellow at the University of Durham and a researcher and teacher at Northumbria University, he re-joined Teesside in 2010.
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June 20, 2019
A good resource for the "Primer Phase", a term Steve Hall coined for a maintenance phase so that the next cutting or massing phase is enhanced. It revolves around the idea of resensitizing adaptative mechanisms that get stronger over time, so that the next time you come back to your regular phase, you're in one sense "fresh", and at the baseline level of diminishing returns.
The book goes over the technical aspect of why something like a primer phase might be a good idea and then goes over to practical applications of the phase, both for training and nutrition. It has quite a few graphs and charts that illustrate the points nicely, and also touches on many psychological aspects of having such a phase.
Overall it's nicely done, although you shouldn't expect anything groundbreaking. If you don't mind the price and you want to learn about a primer phase, what it is and how it's implemented, it's definitely an excellent resource.
The book goes over the technical aspect of why something like a primer phase might be a good idea and then goes over to practical applications of the phase, both for training and nutrition. It has quite a few graphs and charts that illustrate the points nicely, and also touches on many psychological aspects of having such a phase.
Overall it's nicely done, although you shouldn't expect anything groundbreaking. If you don't mind the price and you want to learn about a primer phase, what it is and how it's implemented, it's definitely an excellent resource.
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