Steroids, New Articles, Fitness Videos
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Steroids, steroids, steroids.you know its a big hairy deal when David Broder and Tim Russert are talking about it on Meet The Press, when Juan Williams and Fred Barnes are talking about it on Fox and Friends whats creating all the friction and hub-bub? Iraqi? Social Security? Gay Marriage? No way! Steroids!
Interestingly enough, there was near unanimous consensus, regardless of political persuasion (when was the last time that occurred?) that the baseball hearings were not the political grandstanding circus many had predicted. Mark McGwires pathetic performance galvanized those who saw it and it cut across party lines. The broad consensus was, hey, maybe Congress should step in and not just clean up baseball but look to rid all sports of steroids.
The process gathered more momentum when the baseball commissioner said he was helpless to institute stricter penalties: as it stands a player’s 1st steroid offense results in a pitiful 10-day suspension. It takes no less than five strikes for a ballplayer to be banned from baseball permanently. The comish indicated that this was the best he could do and pointed the finger at the union.
The Congressional lawmakers basically said, well Mr. Commissioner, perhaps thats the best you could get the union to agree to, but we can make them an offer they cant refuse! The whole issue is gathering momentum and with bipartisan support and the press siding with lawmakers, I suspect you are going to see some new steroid laws, ones with real sharp teeth. I suspect one extremely interested onlooker was watching from the California Governors mansion.
I wonder how long before Arnold announces that drug testing will be instituted at the Arnold Classic? I suspect that when the Guv is asked about it next time, he wont respond with lame, I dont want to talk about whats in the past line that he presented when asked about it on Chris Matthews Hardball show last week.
Now that McGwire has unsuccessfully eliminated that fig leaf, I doubt that Arnold will get away with using the lets not talk about the past argument again. I wonder what the Weider organization is going to do about the steroid freaks they have under contract? How about all the bloated monsters staring out from the covers of the newsstand muscle magazines? Maybe theyll be shown the door as a result.
New articles galore.in the next few days well be posting a boatload of new articles. One on walking as cardio mode for overweight folks was originally published in Powerlifting USA many years ago I dusted it off and updated it, thinking that while it was written in response to the slew of overweight ex-athletes that were keeling over on a regular basis, the article also had great applicability to obese folks looking to take that first step towards transformation.
Look for Walk Away From Death. I am unearthing a treasure trove of article nuggets from the mid-nineties that I found while searching for website photos. One thing great about being a Purposeful Primitive the approach is timeless; topics and methods discussed years ago are still effective compare this to the never-ending new and improved cable TV fitness-related products and methods that are literally here today and gone tomorrow.
Karwoski speaksI had a long conversation with Captain on Saturday and we talked about putting together a Purposefully Primitive training tape designed for regular folks. The idea is to depict the key core exercises done flawlessly by one of the great progressive resistance technicians of our time. Well shoot the basic movements and provide a visual reference on exactly how to perform the various free-weight exercises. Well have some voice over offering technical fine-points and tips
I cannot tell you how often Ive been asked to recommend a basic training tape aimed at the serious fitness devotee what is out there is either softball pabulum treating the earnest fitness seeker as baby or over-the-top hardcore that is more about strutting than instructingneither are applicable as a teaching tool for normal folks serious about fitness. In the ancient days we used to refer to visual study as learning the lift by looking. When it comes to teaching technique, a picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth 10,000. Karwoski and I went over old times and might do some retro articles on remembrances of things past
Dont forget to tune in tomorrow at 12-noon for the Q&A! Need feedback on what occurred this past week in your personal training quest? Pose the question most pressing insofar as training goes use me as the electronic coach and lets kick the rocks off the path before they slow progress down to a crawl.
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