Archive for April, 2006
Purposeful layoffs
24 April 2006If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! People often ask me how they should train while away on vacation. That supposes that I would insist they should train while on vacation. My counterintuitive advice surprises them: why not synchronize […]
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IRON ICON: A bona fide Living Legend looks backward and forward
17 April 2006A sizeable portion of the informed, lifting public has no idea who Bill Pearl is, or was, or why he remains such an important, seminal, transitional figure. Ask a thirty-something athlete about Pearl and his exploits and you get the same blank look you get asking someone under […]
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Fitness mistakes: Part I
14 April 2006The name of the game in fitness is physical transformation. To achieve this Herculean goal requires a smart game plan and lots of pure physical effort. Changing the composition of the human body, sculpting and reshaping it, takes continual unceasing effort, hard work in the gym. If you […]
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Are you a one-dimensional trainer plying their trade in a three-dimensional world?
10 April 2006Most people are biased towards one or another of the three legs of the fitness triad: progressive resistance training, cardiovascular training and nutrition. How many folks try and lose weight by dieting and dieting alone? Ever wonder why people who lose a lot of bodyweight rapidly still look […]
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One Man, One Pan: The Weber Grill for bird
7 April 2006If you are creative and imaginative there are dozens of ways to prepare the two eternal mainstays of the Purposefully Primitive Performance Eating philosophy: lean protein and fibrous carbohydrate. By developing an arsenal of methods, recipes and assembling certain culinary tools, you are able to create delicious foods […]
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Barbie Nuremberg Rally
4 April 2006With the predictably bad timing I became increasingly ill as my trip to the beach approached. By my Friday departure it was apparent that I was infected. “Probably Bird Flu.” said my fourteen year old step daughter with stone face and not […]
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