Tragically, you can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve. A Preface: Of late, I have received a tremendous volume of emails from people who wish to have me hold their hands like small children as they make their way through the gym, constantly looking to me for affirmation and recognition as they

This is just one of the many entries in my magnum opus, 365 Days of Brutality, which is onsale in both print and ebook formats.  365 Days of Brutality is not your typical "repackage the same old shit," overpriced training ebook with terrible formatting and a tiny size- this thing is a beast the likes

It goes without saying that Bill "Peanuts" West would be unloved in your average tryhard, super srs bro "hardcore gym these days- he bore none of their accouterments. He lacked a fancy belt, didn't talk about training incessantly, didn't stress and whine about lifting to random strangers at every opportunity, didn't take endless photographs of

We have, of course, all seen the epic sci-fi horror film Cube, a film in which a few hapless and patently unlikable people find themselves trapped inside a massive, shifting Rubik's Cube boobytrapped with the type of futuristic insanity that would have given the Viet Cong lifetime hardons had they seen them in 1968. Because

When people think of the men and women behind the curtain in the world of powerlifting, names like Mark Rippetoe and Louie Simmons, Dave Tate and Jim Wendler likely spring to mind. This is because powerlifting is about the most fad-driven pastime this side of table-top gaming and 20-something women's fashion, and because powerlifters are

At this point it's redundant to say that I pine for the times of yore when the lifting community wasn't mainstream- the time before Instagram when people decided they needed to lift to be "cool" or whatever, then inundated our gyms and scene with their banal bullshit, lame, pseudointellectual, "scientific" jargon, and poser mentalities. They

“If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did

When people think old-school training, this is the guy they're thinking about. "Oh, 5x5"" You ask?" Hell no, not even Reg Park himself trained like that- that was a goddamned beginner's workout. That full-body three days a week horseshit you've been peddled was even more fanciful than Saddam's WMDs, Justin Bieber's impression of his own

You ever think to yourself, "Maybe I should plan out my workouts?" or "Maybe I should pay some coach for a cookie-cutter routine that has nothing to do with my own individual strengths and weaknesses in the gym? That shit might work better

I was once asked why I do squat lockouts with 1100+ lbs. My answer? Because I can.   There's more to it than that, though. Partials, as I'm sure you all know, boast such myriad benefits as building stronger and thicker tendons, ligaments, and attachments, greatly stimulates the central nervous system and forces the body to build