The Awesomeness of Powerbuilding, Part 3
Believe it or not, there used to be at least a half dozen dudes in World Gym Tucson just in the evening crew who could Behind The Neck Press 315lbs. Walking into a gym used to be a humbling experience. Benny Podda-esque behavior was commonplace- you might not see a half naked
The Awesomeness of Powerbuilding, Part 2
Although the term and practice have fallen out of favor with the lifting community at large, the combination of powerlifting-style ultra-heavy training and bodybuilding known as powerbuilding is the balls. In spite of this, the wise "menfolk" of the interwebz feel differently, because of a variety of very weak and easily disassembled arguments. In
Throwback Thursday! There Is Nothing New Under The Sun #4
Having covered most of the older training methods and implements, it's time to head into the "modern" era. In terms of weight training, I would classify the modern era of weight training as the era in which the plate loaded barbell and dumbbell came into wide use, which means that the modern era would
The War On Coffee Was A War On Common Sense
Few people in the world combine a marked distaste for evolutionary science, crippled intellects, shoddy understanding of the human body, stupid religious beliefs of which they're likely unaware, and the Pol Pot-esque unlikeability that vegetarians and vegans do. Frankly, thinking people should be avoiding vegetarians and vegans with the same assiduousness that we did people
Basic Biology – Hormone Control: Get the Body You Deserve: Part 2, Where do Hormones Come From??
For IanPart 2: Where do Hormones Come From?Getting the body you deserve is not impossible. It’s actually very simple. Use your hormones!When specific hormones are activated, you can gain muscle, lose fat, run faster, jump higher, grow bones, etc. In the first part of the series, we uncovered the truth about hormones. Hormones are just signalers. They
Thankskilling Throwback Thursday: Permabulking With The ABCDE Diet
With all of the talk online of "making good food choices" and other assorted anti-gainz nonsense, allow me to remind you of one thing- there is no way you're going to get hyooge without eating like you were just released from a concentration camp every once in a while. All of the best lifters, bodybuilders,
Do It. Don’t Talk About It.
Rocky Marciano once said (and I think this is an old Italian adage), "Do it. Don't talk about it." Not only was Marciano undersized (he'd be considered a small cruiserweight today at between 179 and 188 lbs), but he was a man of indomitable will who went on to become the only heavyweight
Throwback Thursday! There Is Nothing New Under The Sun, Part 3.5
While finishing up the last article in this series it occurred to me that I had overlooked one extremely popular, yet almost completely ignored historical implements- the strand. Known to most of us by the 20th Century name "chest expander", it’s likely that few of you have ever seen a chest expander outside of
Eating Food That Tastes Good Is Just As Important As Proper Nutrition
If the choice is eating like this or hot lead salad, I'm dining on bullets. And Mrs. Goddamned Dash? You've got to be joking.We've all fallen into the trap of eating to feed the machine- it's been a badge of pride for me throughout the years, and I know it is for many