Archive for May, 2006

Minimalist Trainers I’ve known…more on Ken Fantano

31 May 2006

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Never a dull moment. I made it a point to watch Ken train the bench press. Wednesday at 5 the bench elite gathered. It reminded me of a race car with a […]

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Minimalist trainers I have known: the Fantano Bench press

26 May 2006

For a guy who hated to talk about powerlifting, Ken Fantano had sure as hell thought long and hard about powerlifting biomechanics: his treatise on bench pressing was light years passed anything I’ve ever encountered, before or since. He’d sit at the glass-topped counter of his funk-a-fied gym, […]

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Minimalist trainers I have known: Ken Fantano

19 May 2006

Ever see a man bench press 625-pounds casual like, wearing a tank top? Ever seen a man strict incline press a pair of 200-pound dumbbells for 5 reps then on the next set press the same pair of 200’s but have two training partners each balance a 20-pound […]

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Kettlebell, Pavel and Me

16 May 2006

Tom bought this old column by Pavel Tsatsouline to my attention…time flies. I remember it like yesterday…the dangerous Russian and myself sitting on the back deck regaling one another about feats and exploits we had seen or experienced. I prodded the genuinely modest former Spetznaz commando instructor on the specifics of his Master of […]

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One Man, One Pan: Pure Protein - Shrimp!

12 May 2006

According to my nutritional bible, The United States Department of Agriculture Handbook #8, a 100-gram portion of shrimp contain 18.1 grams of protein, .8 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of carbohydrate and 91 calories. For reference, a weighted pound contains 455 grams and a 100-gram portion is slightly […]

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Minimalist trainers I have known Part II: Ken Fantano

9 May 2006

I moved to New England in 1988 to take a job running a warehouse. The inmates were running the asylum and Richard asked if I could move to Milford for a year to help straighten out the corporate mess. He was a close personal friend and used to […]

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Fitness Success: nothing less than utter and complete physical transformation

8 May 2006

I’ve been working hard on a series of future articles for this site and thought for sure I’d have one in particular completed today. As is often the case in Marty World, things didn’t quite work out as I’d initially expected. My problem is this: any topic meaty […]

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