Archive for January, 2006

Flash results from the AAU world powerlifting championships

30 January 2006

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Just got back from Richmond attending and coaching the AAU world championships; heres a flash report: a detailed blow by blow account to follow later in the week. Obviously we could not […]

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After getting big and strong, lean out and set the table for an anabolic burst

25 January 2006

Zebulon John (sounds like a character out of a Band song, Crazy Chester followed me and he caught me in the fog) is a real pal and a champion powerlifter who took up lifting late in life and has been making up for lost time ever since. Hes […]

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Tricks of the competitive lifting trade

23 January 2006

Its odd how the mind works: certain occasions arise that cause my memory banks to fire up and in some deep recess, musty dusty data is retrieved from forgotten storage vaults and appropriate, pertinent information is passed on to others. In this particular instance I have five people […]

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Trick yourself into exercising

20 January 2006

Trick your self into exercising was the title of an article posted on a big-time fitness site today and it illustrates just whats wrong with the mainstream fitness industry. In my mind there are two distinct fitness industries: the mainstream fitness industry is corporate and huge and conventional […]

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Peaking strength

18 January 2006

It is interesting to attempt to induce a strength peak in a stranger as opposed to yourself. This sounds a bit confusing so let me elaborate: I am working with a group of five folks, all were fitness neophytes, all were dramatically overweight and facing varieties of obesity-related […]

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Bobcat Visits, Part II

17 January 2006

More eating, more lifting, dam climbing, arcane German Opera references, peasant food and meeting ms irrepressibly irreverent for Peking duck.

Our Harrys
Come morning, Stacy was already downstairs with coffee a-brewing. I need coffee in the morning. Back in 1966, I started 7th grade. Two “intermediate schools,” as Fairfax County Virginia called […]

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Bobcat visits Part I:

13 January 2006

Lifting in Siberian conditions with cats, flank steak throwdown, boozing around a country peasant kitchen table with hardcore Irish people and eloquent sensualists can prove simultaneously illuminating, inebriating and disorienting.
Harrys Bar is Paris was the place for American expatriate artists to go and congregate and drink lots of firewater while talking tradecraft back […]

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Red pays a visit and lives to write about it

11 January 2006

I invited guitar freak up for a visit and a workout a few weeks back and was pleasantly surprised on all levels: this guy was and is an expert musician whos studied under maestro Danny Gatton and played the Chicago Blues scene for years. Retrenched and reinvigorated, living in suburban DC, raising a young […]

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