Archive for May, 2005

Is any of this stuff sinking in?

27 May 2005

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I got a call from an old friend. In so many words he said, Why are you bothering to go to all this trouble of creating a website to share information with a bunch of strangers who are […]

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The reemergence of Dr. Jim

26 May 2005

One of my oldest friends contacted me a few days back after being incommunicado for nearly a year. Dr. James Wright was the science editor for Flex and Muscle & Fitness magazines for over a decade. Jim was instrumental in getting me in the door with Weider through his considerable influence with major domo […]

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More on ROM the purposefully reduced rep stroke

25 May 2005

The purposefully exaggerated range-of-motion requires the rep stroke begin with a pre-stretch. The poundage is then pushed as far as humanly possible and a lengthily lock-out amplifies the intensity of the muscle contraction. The purposefully normal ROM is just that; a normal repetition with no formal effort made to extend or reduce the specific […]

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Range of motion Part II, compensatory acceleration and other arcane, obscure exotica

24 May 2005

The purposefully normal ROM is what most people who practice progressive resistance unwittingly perform. The path of the bar travels for a normal distance and no conscious effort is made to exaggerate or reduce the distance of the rep stroke. Be it a curl or a bench press, an overhead press or a pulldown, […]

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Range-of-motion

23 May 2005

Range-of-motion, ROM, is a very important topic. As you might infer, ROM refers to how far we push or pull poundage in a particular exercise. How long is the rep stroke as a proportion of 100% full and complete extension, or 100% full and complete contraction? Altering the ROM creates different muscular inroads, different […]

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Converting planning into reality

20 May 2005

There is a certain type of fitness devotee that loves to plan for fitness yet find it hard to pull the execution trigger. Talking the talk is great but it is strictly a preliminary to walking the walk. I heard someone describe it last night on TV, study and preparation are learning from others […]

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Working out and work

19 May 2005

Purposeful Primitives love to work out. They like the feeling they get anticipating the upcoming session, they love the feeling they get as they actually work out, they love the physiological endorphin rush they get in the aftermath, they love the way a savage workout leaves them feeling the rest of the day. Because […]

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Decline sit-ups with a twist

18 May 2005

Sounds like an exotic drink, one with a little umbrella placed inside a lightly salted rim. This is a vicious gut exercise that purposeful primitives gravitate towards because, well, because its a vicious gut exercise and given a choice between easy and difficult, well opt for difficult every single time. Crunches are handy and […]

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