Archive for 'Pure Strength'

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Part III

14 February 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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) […]

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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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