Archive for October, 2005

Training partners

31 October 2005

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It is tough to improve living in a vacuum: you have no frame of reference. Weight trainers past a certain level eventually seek out others lifters in order to jointly pursue the craft of iron pumping. Universally and […]

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To sleep perchance to dream

28 October 2005

Sleep, rest, recuperation and recovery are critically important for babies and athletes. A decade ago I interviewed Shawn Ray for a training article for Muscle & Fitness. In it he said, Bodybuilders and athletes are like babies, they go hard and go all out, then they eat and collapse in a pile on the […]

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Sickness, The Biggest Loser, Chuck Deluxe eats all the food

27 October 2005

About once a year I get sick. I am, as my friends like to say, generally bulletproof. In terms of health when something nasty slips past my goalie its usually a hum-dinger. Ive picked up some sort of congestion bug that causes me to cough often and hard. Theories abound, mold, contact with so […]

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Day IIAAU world push/pull championships

24 October 2005

Mid-afternoon on Saturday Zebulon John showed up. He is a buoyant, upbeat type of guy with a southern accent as thick as molasses and through powerlifting for less than three years he is already one of the best in the country for his age and weight. He competes in raw (no supportive gear) drug-tested […]

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AAU World Push/Pull championships

21 October 2005

Saturday morning I awoke in a really nice hotel room I was sharing with Zebulon John. He hadnt arrived yet, due mid-day, so I wandered downstairs looking for strong coffee to help clear the mental fog. I found it in the hotel lobby and cup in hand made my way down the long hotel […]

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Back in the saddle after a wild rideday I

20 October 2005

A week ago today I started my Thursday off by supervising a 9am lifting session with The Cat Herd, my group of TV reality show participants. While conducting the lifting we simultaneously grilled a whole turkey on the Weber kettle grill that sits on my deck. I am big on this whole fitness concept […]

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Chuck squats 550 wearing just a lifting belt

14 October 2005

I’ve been keeping this in my hip pocket for a few weeks this guy squatted 250-kilos despite getting injured in the process guts personified

A Month to Remember
Meet Report 100% Raw Hagerstown Open
September 24, 2005
By Chuck Deluxe
I just achieved a milestone squat Ive been chasing, and as I come down off the […]

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Doug Furnas, part 2

13 October 2005

I found I needed another few days to follow up on the Doug Furnas article so today Im passing along this gem tomorrow will be a competition report from Chuck DeLuxe and Monday Ill have my Pt II blurb on Doug.
Can you get more purposefully primitive than Ham with junior mint and Snapple […]

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