Archive for September, 2006

ENTER THE KETTLEBELL: PAVEL PUSHES FORWARD

29 September 2006

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One of the great lessons to learn when writing instructional material is to learn how to write to communicate instead of writing to impress. Generally speaking fitness authors fall into one of […]

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WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT

22 September 2006

Unlike the rest of the fitness world, we don’t shove products in your face every ten minutes and waste half of every word written trying to convince you to buy something you may or may not need. We’re sort of like the Public Broadcast System or a Gonzo Consumer Report of fitness. We don’t […]

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All the wrong things done for all the right reasons: Why picking the wrong personal trainer can lead to disaster

19 September 2006

It wasn’t my intention to do a slam piece on personal trainers but chance and circumstance allowed me to observe a squad of well-intentioned, well-meaning PT’s over a protracted period and what I observed was a weird combination of arrogance, horrific ignorance and blind allegiance to an fitness […]

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Karwoski and Gallagher throw a seminar

14 September 2006

Kirk Karwoski and I are going to throw a ‘resistance’ seminar on Sunday October 8th in downtown Washington DC. This will be a wide-ranging three hour comprehensive talk fest that will include demonstrations, explanations and audience participation. Generally speaking we are going to take an hour apiece […]

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Missing in action

13 September 2006

Sorry I totally missed the on-line chat yesterday but around 11am one of our pet cats was run over and killed. Great confusion and consternation. It occurred to me at around 2pm that – wait a minute this is Tuesday and I totally missed the live chat. Apologies for those who showed up and […]

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“I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.”

5 September 2006

If my fading memory is correct, the speaker was Mahatma Gandhi and this was how he responded when asked to describe the perfect world. Apparently we have arrived at Gandhi’s perfect world: for the first time in human history poor people (in the developed countries) are dying not […]

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KAZ chronicles unearthed…the lifter equivalent of finding The Dead Sea Scrolls?

1 September 2006

Few modern strength athletes have captured the imagination of the power public in the way William, Bill, “Kaz” Kazmaier has. The Kaz was always larger than life; his physique was thick yet he had height: it was as if a stocky 5-8/230 pound bodybuilder had magically been stretched […]

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