Gary Knight
Contact Gary via email (intensegainsgary @ gmail.com), Facebook, Instagram, and check out his YouTube Channel.
In this podcast, we discuss Gary’s “new” HIT program, objectivism, the value of HIT coaching, and much, much more.
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Listen to Gary’s previous features on the podcast:
- Gary Knight on the Pointlessness of Periodisation, Objective Ways to Maximise Gains and Extreme Fat Loss on 50-days of McDonalds
- The Perfect Workout for CEOs
- Gary Knight – How To Become An Online HIT and Nutrition Coach (#203)
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Show Notes
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- What is HD Retro? [1:25]
- Why are much of the HIT community so devoted to objectivism? [3:45]
- How to get HD Retro [18:55]
- How to get coaching from Gary [21:40]
- Why you should get HIT coaching [24:20]
- My BIG announcement [26:30]
- What results has Gary achieved for his clients? [31:20]
- How would Gary coach me? [35:15]
Selected Links from the Episode
- Heavy Duty II: Mind and Body by Mike Mentzer
- High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way by Mike Mentzer and John R. Little
- Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week by Dr Doug McGuff and John R. Little
- Objectivism
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand First Interview 1959
- Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979
- Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
- The Fountainhead Film
- Libertarianism
- John Little: Inside the Mind of Mike Mentzer, Body By Science and his Workout with Hercules
- How To Find Your Purpose – John Little
- Google Sheets
- Decision fatigue
People Mentioned
- Mike Mentzer
- Ayn Rand
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dr Doug McGuff (Listen to my episodes with Doug here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)
- Jordan Peterson
- John Little (Listen to my episodes with John here: Part 1 and Part 2)
- James Schramko
- Luke Carlson (Listen to my podcasts with Luke here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6)
429 – A Deep Dive into Joint-Friendly Fitness with Bill DeSimone: A New Paradigm in Exercise Safety
426 – Dr Doug McGuff — Expanding ‘Ultimate Exercise’, Navigating the Realities of Running a HIT Studio on Autopilot, Crafting the Ultimate Client Workout Experience, and Delving into Muscle Hypertrophy and Steroid Side Effects
422 – HIT Collision: David Landau and Lawrence Neal’s Explosive Showdown!
He’s always so entertaining. 🙂
His physique, that’s how you sell HIT. Him, Doug, Luke, Jay, John Little, John Heart, etc…
Some decent size and leanness has to show to get people to listen. It’s just how the world is. as Gary said it in another podcast, he was preaching HIT but had too much body fat so his friend said to him, why would I listen to you, you look like crap.
In a couple of months I’ll be doing a before and after of my HIT experience. I barely talk about it now with people, even though people keep mentioning I’m bigger. But a before and after is the best way to show HIT’s benefits.
Hey Ricky,
I agree. I think we need to walk the walk. You don’t need to be a genetic freak either. In today’s world, a small degree of muscularity and leanness make you look like superman!
Hahah I remember Gary saying that. He’ll never forget that moment. Would be very cool to see your before and after. Please post a link here!
I somewhat enjoyed this podcast although I was greatly disappointed in Gary’s view of Objectivism, which is way off on the actual tenants of it, especially its ethics. I highly highly recommend anyone who want to understand Objectivism more throughly, they read Leonard Peikoff’s: Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Gary’s assessment did a great disservice.
Thank you for your contribution Farhad.
First, congratulations on the recent developments in your personal life.
Second, thanks to Gary for putting out a free program.
Now to the podcast…
It takes a brave man to go on a HIT podcast and critique Ayn Rand and Objectivism. 🙂
That said, I’ll admit that I’ve never been a big fan of Libertarianism or Objectivism, and I’ve never been a big fan of Mentzer’s use of philosophy and logic to come up with a training system. However, I have not been able to articulate my discomfort with these things nearly as well as what Mr. Knight did. So I thoroughly enjoyed that portion of the discussion!
Cheers Greg! It’s all very exciting!
It’s a deep rabbit hole to go down and something I’m only just starting to learn more about. I got bored of Atlas Shrugged after reading about 30%! At first, I felt the pressure to force the rest seeing as it’s such a classic, but that didn’t last. I think I’m going to listen to it or watch the movie.
I’ve since moved on to Ready Player One! Haha.
I’m glad you enjoyed this one. John Little and I get into objectivism a bit here too https://highintensitybusiness.com/podcast/john-little-the-time-savers-workout-part-1/
Hi Lawrence, I don’t comment much anymore but am still listening to a lot of your content. Just want to say congratulations on the impending arrival, I’m 6 years into fatherhood and it the best thing I ever did.
Hey Andrew,
I appreciate you as a listener!
Thank you so much. You are an inspiration!
I read We the Living, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged about 10 years ago. I liked Howard Roark’s character the best. I have wondered if Galt was really based on Tesla. Could it really be “Oh well, who is Nikola Tesla? Could it all be summed up in believe in yourself and have rational self interest? The individualist’s were known as the “The Collective” and It is very easy to become a Randroid (i was influenced by it too) through group-think.
I will get to The Fountainhead. That seems to be a little easier to digest than Atlas Shrugged.
I have been a huge Mentzer fan since 1994 (when I was 19), and have all his books. His writings definitely inspire me to train hard and i revisit them from time to time. However, he was a person that put on his pants one leg at a time just like me. A person is an end in themselves, so do what you do and it does what it does.
Wise words. Thanks Brian. There’s more about the “liberated intellectual” here https://highintensitybusiness.com/podcast/john-little-the-time-savers-workout-part-1/
Don’t want to sound like a dogmatist but Mr, Knight knows little (it seems) about Rand’s non-fiction.
Watch Michael Paxton’s ‘Ayn Rand : A Sense of Life’; it’s very well done and shows her in her true light.
Thank You.
Chris Thomas.
Definately read the fountainhead first as you’ve jumped off into the deep end by reading atlas shrugged first,. You will be ready for it later in life ,it’s a very long book that needs to be read slowly not rushed. I got into ayn rand through john little and mike mentzer years ago and using her philosophy have to the top of my profession as a full time martial arts instructor and to the top of each art I have studied . You can pick apart ayn rands teaching but have you actually grasped what she is explaining ,many Miss what she is trying to get across by a mile and fail to apply what she or mentzer or john have advocated ,to apply it in your day to day living . I grasped what she said with both hands and made a success of what I do but also strengthened my morality ,ethics and integrity along the way. Her works are weight training for the brain and sometimes you have to go over it till you actually grasp what she is trying to get across. As a pioneer of mma ,Brazilian jiu jitsu and jeet kune do and Filipino arts in the north of the uk I have used high intensity , static contraction and other methods to high level fighters as well as ordinary gym goers and seen great success using those methods .
Thanks Michael. I abandoned Atlas Shrugged for now as you said, but when I return to Ayn Rand’s work I’ll start with The Fountainhead. Interesting story you have there and thanks for sharing.