Life and Exercise

One of the unwritten, yet universally acknowledged, rules of the gym states the following: “There will be no biceps curls done in the squat rack”. There is nothing so irritating as having to wait to for someone to finish up doing curls when you want to do something useful, you know, like actually squat. No [...]

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There is an unfortunate tendency among humans to comment on matters which they know very little about. This is especially true in political media when it’s very rare that any of the commentators have any true knowledge of the subjects they discuss. The most disappointing aspect of the whole endeavor is that these commentators don’t [...]

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I have no real thoughts on training right now so I figured I’d write about a couple things that have been occupying my mind recently. 1. I watched Hoosiers at least 100 times when I was young. I watched it so much that I dreamed of one day moving to Indiana to live in a [...]

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Sideways training is a term I use when I talk to people that have no idea of how to progress in their training. There are two parts to sideways training. In Part I we have a typical member at the gym- and they are clueless. The clueless trainee may, or may not, know that they [...]

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Would you take better care of your health if you knew that what you do now could impact the health of your children and grandchildren? I came across an interesting topic in the book “The Genius in All of Us” that talked about how the experiences of an individual can impact their sperm or eggs. [...]

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