Purposeful Primitive Online

This site is dedicated to the enhancement of elite kettlebell training and to the art and science of physical transformation.

Five RKC kettlebell instructors and one medical doctor, each man possessing a wildly divergent background, have banded together to engage in an ultra-minimalistic progressive resistance training regimen under the direct supervision of a master instructor. The ground rules are simple…

• no more than one cumulative hour per week will be allotted to the resistance training
• no more than three exercises are practiced

Individualized periodization charts have been generated for each of the six participants: these are posted for all to see. Each week each man will use the strategy of ‘creeping incrementalism‘ to inch closer towards their individualized goal. Score is kept in four categories: performance in three individual lifts and predetermined bodyweight increases or decreases.

The overarching goal is not to turn participants into weightlifters or powerlifters, rather to enhance each man’s strength and power so that they might improve kettlebell performance.

The overarching goal is to compliment, not contradict kettlebell performance.

Ultimately each man seeks to master the technical nuances and subtleties of each lift so that they may in turn teach these lifts to their students, thereby adding a mighty and transformative weapon to their kettlebell arsenal. First they improve themselves so they might better serve their students.

Follow us on our journey.