Archive for 'Purposefully Primitive People'
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Part III
14 February 2007The 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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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Part II
6 February 2007I landed in Vegas on Thursday and immediately hooked up with the Irish expat mob. We started the Vegas culinary odyssey with a stop at the River Boat casino 2nd floor restaurant and pub. The in-the-know locals were stacked up waiting in line: it was steak night and for $9.99 you got and amazing […]
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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Part I
29 January 2007The fact that I do not travel much and that I do not travel well comes as absolutely no surprise to anyone who knows me. I suppose a case could be made that the collapse of my travel tolerance is directly proportional to my advancing age. Could be. Why should I travel well? I’m […]
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Remembrances of Days gone by
9 January 2007 Remembrances of Days gone by…Hugh Cassidy
A letter in the discussion forum got the memory banks churning…
Re: Five rep sets - the default rep range
Ron, do you remember in Muscular Development in the early 1970s the article on squatting by world champion powerlifter Hugh Cassidy? He stated in the article that the […]
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ENTER THE KETTLEBELL: PAVEL PUSHES FORWARD
29 September 2006One 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 two broad categories: good writers with weak athletic backgrounds or good athletes that are weak writers. […]
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Karwoski and Gallagher throw a seminar
14 September 2006Kirk 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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Bobcat plots his next move…Chuck DeLuxe as recovery role model…leprechaun assistance
31 July 2006Marty,
A little irony for you: We also play bridge - but not frequently. Usually just in Perrysburg with Vondah’s stepfather and her stepsister-in-law’s mother. I learned to play bridge at 15; I was introduced to strength training at 14, and I believe I got my first barbell […]
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Bill Pearl and Dave Draper…Iron Icons commiserate: will you be able to hear the whispers?
1 June 2006 Bill Pearl and Dave Draper…Iron Icons commiserate: will you be able to hear the whispers?
Wisdom isn’t shouted. Wisdom is related in quiet whispers. And only those quiet enough and attuned enough and receptive enough and sensitive enough to really listen hear the profundity hidden in the whispers. Dave […]
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Minimalist Trainers I’ve known…more on Ken Fantano
31 May 2006Never 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 pit crew. Ken, Danny and Jean, the lifters were often assisted to help. The were a […]
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Minimalist trainers I have known: the Fantano Bench press
26 May 2006For 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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