Archive for November, 2006
Redux: Decline sit-ups with a twist
30 November 2006If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Sounds like an exotic drink, one with a little umbrella placed inside a lightly salted rim. This is a vicious gut exercise that purposeful primitives gravitate towards because, well, because it’s a vicious gut exercise and given a […]
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Calories, food and metabolism…the never ending dilemma
28 November 2006Metabolism is a moving, shifting target; never finite or fixed in time and space, metabolism, like hope, floats. Here is the deal: to stay the same (another myth: organisms never stay the exact same) we need to take in about approximately as many calories as we burn during the course of the day. Take […]
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One Man, One Pan: (One Man, One smoker?) Turkey Making for the Experts
22 November 2006My buddy Marc’s dad is a BBQ expert; a real one that has a portable smoker and travels the BBQ circuit. (he’s also a medical doctor) At my merciless prodding Marc wrested Pop’s top secret bird prep technique. He swore me to secrecy but I’m passing it along to you folks anyway…I’m going to […]
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Energy for Life and Living!
20 November 2006 Quote of the day…“An army run without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss soaked bag.” General George Patton
Winter is here: do you have a fitness battle plan? Speaking of “Two Gun” Patton, (he carried two pearl handled pistols) in fitness as in war you […]
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Andersonian heavy workload staggered interval training…Redux!
16 November 2006I took off yesterday altogether. No nothing: no weights, no cardio, no nothing. Why? My body needed it. How did I know? Telltale signs: I woke up dog tired though I had gone to sleep early the previous night and slept well. My chest region was sore-to-the-touch…big time! […]
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Wisdom cubed: Keys to Progress…purposefully primitive philosophic foundation
13 November 2006I get asked repeatedly for book recommendations and always draw a blank because with one or two notable exceptions books on physical transformation are invariably whorish product plugs, woefully inadequate or downright misinformed. I glanced over at my book shelf the other day and for some subconscious reason my eyes strayed and stayed on […]
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Ideas that ought not be forgotten: Compensatory Deceleration
7 November 2006Here’s another idea whose time has come: Compensatory Deceleration. CD is when it is appropriate to purposefully slow down the speed of the rep. How much slow-down is appropriate is the 64-dollar question. At one extreme are the Arthur Jones adherents that carry their banner ever onward. One […]
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