Archive for 'Pure Strength'

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Part III

14 February 2007

The deadlift is an incredibly easy lift to understand: pull a loaded barbell from the floor to lockout in a smooth and uninterrupted motion. Pavel and Brett were competing in Vegas at the National AAU push/pull (bench press/deadlift) competition. Each man would need a few warm-up attempts before taking the first of three competition […]

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Calories, food and metabolism…the never ending dilemma

28 November 2006

Metabolism 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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Iron Correspondence

24 February 2006

I received e-mails from friends seeking advice on training and thought sharing a couple of these might be helpful in their counterintuitive suggestionsGrill is an elite lifter looking to register an 800-pound deadlift at an upcoming competition and the theme could be encapsulated as sometimes less is better
FROM: GRILLMAN
TO: HONORABLE COACH GALLAHER
SUBJECT: […]

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Flash results from the AAU world powerlifting championships

30 January 2006

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 be more pleased with the results. These magnificent athletes, none of whom had ever touched a […]

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WALK AWAY FROM DEATH Revisited

30 November 2005

I got the latest Powerlifting USA mag yesterday and saw that another Iron Immortal had keeled over early from a heart attack this article ran a few years back in PLUSA and I thought it might be worth resurrecting
WALK AWAY FROM DEATH
Recently yet another super-heavyweight Iron Immortal died from a heart attack […]

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The greatest athlete Ive ever seen

22 August 2005

I happened to catch a documentary this past week on the great Jim Brown and his work with gangs, prison inmates and the permanent underclass. It struck a resonant chord in my brain and I broke out my Spike Lee video on Brown and his athletic accomplishments. Now 68, Brown still stands tall and […]

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What I did over the weekend: I wandered into a powerlifting meet and took this picture

18 April 2005

BEHOLD, A MAN! WITH A CAPITAL M!
Prototypical Purposefully Primitive Powerlifter plys Tadekraft
I dont even know this mans name. He readies his mind prior to his opening squat of 722-pounds. He hopes for much more than that on this special day. Wrapped and ready, his listens to a particular musical selection, one that holds […]

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