Archive for November, 2005

WALK AWAY FROM DEATH Revisited

30 November 2005

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I got the latest Powerlifting USA mag yesterday and saw that another Iron Immortal had keeled over early from a heart attack this article ran a few years back in PLUSA and I thought it might be […]

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Purposeful Primitive Brethren: Iron Chef Mario Batali

29 November 2005

Purposeful Primitive Brethren: Iron Chef Mario Batali
You dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
There are Purposeful Primitives in music, art and sport. One man who exemplifies the PP mentality in field totally unrelated to fitness is Mario Batali, a guy who is at once primitive and sophisticated. Batali is an […]

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Are you a one dimensional trainer who loves to lecture?

28 November 2005

Most people who seek to lose weight or add muscle through some sort of athletic or dietary approach are biased toward one of the three legs of the fitness triad: progressive resistance training, cardiovascular training or diet/nutrition. People that insist on trying to lose weight by dieting and dieting alone think slashing calories is […]

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Biggest loser

23 November 2005

I was flipping back and forth between two loser TV programs last night, the American Music Awards and The Biggest Loser. Terrible and more terrible yet; I missed the end of each when I feel asleep out of boredom. I thought the Big Loser was a two hour final but apparently it was only […]

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Have a piece of pie, Monday will be here soon enough

22 November 2005

Relax a little: The holiday is upon us and I get correspondence from folks fretting over the fact that they might binge a bit on Thursday. I say train hard and eat strict in anticipation of the holiday and get back into the saddle next week. John McCallum used to call this softening up […]

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Iron Icon: Paul Anderson

21 November 2005

The new photo is of one of my strength mentors: Paul Anderson. The photo was taken around 1965 and in it Big Andy weighed between 360 to 370 pounds at about 5-10 inches in height. Paul is doing a deadlift and his best was 800 pounds. Note how the little finger on Pauls right […]

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Prototypical Purposeful Primitive

18 November 2005

Back before he went into politics, back before he was a movie star, back before he married a Kennedy, back before he won the Olympia seven times, back before he won the Universe, back before he came to America, Arnold spent his time engaging in primordial pursuits and purposefully primitive pastimes. I suspect he […]

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The Rubiks Cube of Athletic Transference

17 November 2005

Yesterday I had a long and interesting talk with Ethan Reeves, the head strength coach at Wake Forest University. We waxed philosophic about a variety of fitness related issues and strategies. His approach towards training athletes is sophisticated yet practical. It is his job to make good athletes great and great athletes superb. The […]

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