Discover the Best Books Written by Marty Gallagher

Marty Gallagher has been a national and world champion masters powerlifter and is widely considered one of the best writers in the iron game. Since 1978 he has written over 1000 articles published in a dozen publications. He has authored more than 100 articles for Muscle & Fitness magazine and produced 230 weekly live online columns for the Washington Post. Gallagher has coached some of the biggest names in powerlifting and witnessed some of the greatest strength feats of the last half-century. If you like his style, pick up a copy of his masterwork, The Purposeful Primitive. 

Gallagher published his first article in 1978. Since then, he has had over 1,000 articles published. Marty wrote for Powerlifting USA and Milo. He was "recruited" by Dr. Jim Wright, Science Editor at Flex magazine, and asked to write training articles for the Weider magazine conglomerate. Gallagher had 94 articles published in Muscle & Fitness, Flex, and Prime Fitness. Marty's primary job for Weider was to interview the world's best bodybuilders on how they trained and what nutritional approach they used to prepare for competitions. 

He was an informed interviewer, and his exposure to high-level bodybuilding enhanced and expanded Gallagher's "transformational vision." The degree of precision elite bodybuilders used in their nutrition profoundly influenced his thinking. Marty's exposure to bodybuilding led him to a long relationship with bodybuilding nutritional expert John Parrillo. Marty writes for Parrillo to this day.

In 2000 Gallagher was approached by the Washington Post and asked to become an online fitness columnist. Over the next five years, he wrote 230 + weekly and bi-weekly columns for WashingtonPost.com. Gallagher has written four books: his first, Coan, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, was called by Joe Weider "The finest single book on powerlifting ever written." 

Gallagher's second book, The Purposeful Primitive, was his 500-page "masterpiece" that encapsulated the methods of his mentors. Praised on a worldwide basis by elite strength athletes worldwide, the Purposeful Primitive created a sensation. In 2015 Marty released a 600-page book with Dr. Chris Hardy, Strong Medicine. Gallagher called his collaboration with Chris "exhilarating, rewarding, and eye-opening.