Archive for June, 2005
Thoughts on the Nautilus Revolution
30 June 2005I 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 trainers. It made me think about how in the end fitness is a solitary path and […]
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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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Crazy stuff done by the young and obsessed; how ideas morph over time
20 June 2005Back when I was young the mission was to get as big, strong and muscular as possible in the shortest amount of time. That made things simple: lift heavy, eat a lot, eat often and eat whatever you likesleep a lot and nap periodically. This approach was (as is) effective as hell if the […]
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Base strength levels
17 June 2005I once received a lesson in power and strength that lasted less than 10-seconds and provided me mental fuel that has burned for twenty years. In the mid-1980s I was coaching a friend at a powerlifting competition. Also coaching a friend was another lifter named George Hector. George was a smart, sharp guy who […]
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Sometimes in order to think outside the box you need get back inside the box
16 June 2005I got a nice note from Pavel Tsatsouline yesterday and it made me mull over why I so liked his approach to fitness, bodybuilding and strength training like a miner or a prospector Tsatsouline takes the time to reexamine all the little nooks and crannies and crevices where oddball ideas once popular and […]
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