Archive for June, 2005
Thoughts on the Nautilus Revolution
30 June 2005If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I saw an old Nautilus machine forlornly sitting unused in the corner of a gym yesterday. It bought on a flood of memories about the philosophic drive-bys those Nautilus guys used to unleash on us old school conventional […]
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The readers take over
29 June 2005 I was going to wait and post this later but I thought it so good I wanted to get it up asap a cautionary tale by a man who would not and will not be deniedcomments? KerPlunk will be posting periodically…
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Marty asked me to write something about my quest for the proper deadlift. […]
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What lean people are doing to get that waythe procedural consensus (Dorian Yates’ secret!)
28 June 2005A consensus has arisen within the bodybuilding world over the past twenty years regarding the exact modes and procedures needed to become lean as humanly possible while retaining muscle mass. Across the nation and the world, bodybuilders are lifting weights, hitting aerobics and eating with discipline in order to melt body fat. While they […]
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Competition is good; it keeps the adventure juices flowing.
27 June 2005 Competition is good; it keeps the adventure juices flowing.
A man need occasionally be jerked out of his torpor.
DeLuxe/Picasso
Had a small powerlifting competition in my neighborhood and quite a few people used it as an excuse to come to town, lift and afterwards kibitz with other like minded individualsJohn, from the mythical Zebulon (right next […]
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IN PRAISE OF JOHN McCALLUM
23 June 2005 Oldie/goodieI found this going through some old files first published in 1994
IN PRAISE OF JOHN McCALLUM
Reminiscing on the Philosophies of a Strength Iconoclast
John McCallum was the heart-and-soul of Strength and Health magazine. For seven years, from June 1965 through November 1972, he wrote a monthly column, Keys to Progress. S&H was on […]
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How much time for fitness? Intensity trumps everything
22 June 2005Whats the minimum weekly time investment you can slide by with and still make gains? I would say six cumulative hours. Six times sixty is 360 minutes and this amount of time would allow for three 60-minute weight training sessions and six 30-minute cardio sessions per week. Assuming you had a serious dietary effort […]
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Input versus output
21 June 2005Someday some enterprising entrepreneur is going to invent a wristwatch that will be able to tell you at a glance how many calories youve burned performing your daily activities. At the end of the day the watch would tell you how many calories youve oxidized in the previous 24-hour period. Even if its within […]
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