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Not sure what it is about going to the gym that inspires people, particularly females, to dress in something resembling their underwear. I'm doing chest, shoulders and triceps today, so I'm wearing cargo pants and a t-shirt. Sure, if I'm doing squats I will probably wear basketball type shorts or sweats if it's cold out, …
I don't think about dying all that much, but I have been since I was almost killed yesterday. Driving south along US Highway 17 at around 50 MPH, the traffic light turned yellow. I'm not one of those panicked drivers who slam on the brakes at a yellow light. I gauge the distance to the …
The Mets season just ended with a flourish, as Noah pitched a complete game 1-0 shutout to cap off a MLB best performance by the starting rotation since early August. An 18-10 September was a great way to finish a losing season that had a mid-summer swoon the likes of which I can't recall in …
Years wasted doing low volume strength training programs have cost me muscular size. There's really no argument anymore. Research continues to pile up showing a dose response relationship between training volume and hypertrophy. Long after I maxed out my neurological adaptations to heavy loads and improved my motor skills with practice, I continued to pound …
This is a personal blog, as should be obvious to anyone who stumbles across it. However, I would hate anyone to get the impression that I'm either indifferent to what's happening at the highest levels of government or that somehow in my relative silence on the matter I'm in agreement. Today's action by the con …
7 Weeks in and I can already declare that the course has exceeded my expectations. Not only has my knowledge base increased in nutrition, an area I thought I was already quite knowledgeable in, but I've been able to make actual changes to my diet to improve my health and physique results. There's plenty of …
I don't care for people who criticize the sport they're watching by complaining about "the old days," or how the game was played in "their day." This goes for the average fan, but most noticeably the commentators. Since commentators are typically former players, there's going to be a sprinkling of reminiscing in their observations, and …
Watching a rather large man struggling to Clean 120KG in the gym today was a real epiphany for me. If you're not competitive in an activity, be it Weightlifting or Powerlifting, you should ask yourself why you're doing it. After years spent training for Powerlifting, I have some anecdotal experience and can attest that the …
After seven months, it was clear that time and length, arguably the solution to most beard "problems," were not coming to my rescue. With thin cheeks and sideburns, the full beard I was sporting looked unacceptable to me; a wispy attempt that just fell short. I trimmed off the offending whiskers and trimmed up the …
There's nothing quite like growing a beard, at least in my experience, that opens the door for other people to tell you what they'd like you to do. People suddenly feel free to offer their opinions, pervasive as those are, on whether I should grow it at all, how it makes me look, and what …
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