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If someone has a PhD in something, I tend to think they've earned some degree of respect and their ideas at least merit some attention. It doesn't mean they're going to be right, but at least one should listen, potentially learn, and give their thoughts some consideration as possible candidates for truth. That's truth with …
Every time I go outside I'm reminded that it's the middle of summer as I get lightheaded and the heat saps my energy and my will to live. So it's obviously not voting season, yet I find myself obsessively checking the polls and completing the Electoral College map anyway. Sure a lot can happen between …
I had someone ask me what kind of diet I was on. I replied honestly, by saying I just eat what I always eat, but less of it to create an energy deficit. The follow up question was, so like a low carb diet? No, not at all. Just eating less. People probably struggle with …
Stuck at home without access to weights, my attempts at continued muscular hypertrophy seem restricted since I can't effectively use the common method of increasing the weight I'm lifting as a means of adding unaccustomed stress to my body, forcing it to respond by growing. A history lesson: Milo of Croton was a legendary wrestler …
It is very much in vogue to poke fun at vitamin supplements, suggesting that taking them is a waste of money, providing nothing more than expensive, brightly colored urine. For many years I took a multi-vitamin as nutritional insurance, and I supplemented with various individual vitamins periodically like C and E, and supplemented with some …
While my workouts are going quite well, I still struggle with the desire to move iron again. I waffle between wanting to do a strength oriented training plan and maintaining a hypertrophy oriented training plan, but even a hypertrophy plan would be dramatically improved by the ability to incrementally increase the resistance I'm using, which …
When a young man starts lifting weights, images of a swollen, muscular, lean version of himself floats in the mind like a balloon, reinforced by magazine covers (back in my day), Instagram pictures, YouTube videos and the plethora of internet sites devoted to fitness and muscular development. Soon enough, the young man starts to wonder: …
I've written before that there was something about Yoenis I didn't care for. While I was certainly pleased to see him in the lineup for the COVID-shortened season that is 2020, honestly I was so happy to see a lineup period that it probably didn't matter if the canary yellow-wearing moose of a man was …
For the first time since Monday, I awoke without a fever. 98.6 this morning after 4 days of a low grade, 99.9-100.1 reading each morning. The body aches and crippling fatigue vanished as if someone flicked a switch yesterday around 2:00 PM. It was so sudden I was actually surprised when I bent down to …
Sure, when one is under the weather there are telltale signs. If it's a common cold, it may start with an unexpectedly scratchy throat, which causes a momentary panic followed by denial. I am not getting sick. Body aches and feeling fatigued may indicate some type of infection. Placing a hand on someone's forehead is …
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