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With the end of my Powerlifting career, such that it was, I needed a new direction, a new focal point for my resistance training. I toyed around with some of what I call High Stimulus/Low Fatigue hypertrophy training. This is essentially choosing exercises that hit the muscles quite effectively without wearing your ass out. For …
My position on steroid use in strength sports is pretty straight forward: I don't care if people want to use them. They just shouldn't compete in drug tested Federations. I think the best way to look at drug use in strength sports is simply not to make the comparisons between drug using athletes and natural, …
During my imagined hypogonadal period that began in December, I began to study all available options for my future as an androgen deficient, aging male. I took the herbal supplement route to try to make some immediate improvement to my hormonal levels, and I've since learned that these products are commonly used as a form …
Dear Faithful Reader, as you might expect, I have been obsessively studying everything related to testosterone, free testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin, estrogen and how to improve my current endocrine status. I've gone deep into the world of testosterone replacement therapy, erectile dysfunction medications, anabolic steroids, SARMS, diet, vitamins, minerals, herbal concoctions and the power …
I've long been a fan of supplementation, especially in my earliest days of lifting weights in an effort to grow like the bodybuilders in Muscle and Fitness and FLEX magazines which I subscribed to and read with regularity. Sure, I was naive, but let's face it, the magazines weren't forthright in their presentation and never …
With my home gym now partially completed (I wanted to be sure the stands would support a Bench Press before I ponied up the cash for a bench), I began lifting actual weights again yesterday for the first time since March. I figured I'd start light and see where I stood in terms of strength, …
I was going to write a post yesterday about how hard it is to Squat with resistance bands. Instead, I impulsively purchased Squats Stands that were on sale at Amazon. The reason squatting with bands is so hard is that you have to put the bar on your back in a deep squat position, while …
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Sometimes I hear something or read something that clicks in my brain, making me consider something I probably should have known anyway, but since we live in our brains, justifying and rationalizing the way we think and the choices we make, it occasionally requires an outside voice to break into the inner monologue. I was …
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 …
Although I haven't written about it in a while, I remain focused, preoccupied and probably obsessed with my weight training. Obsession has a bad reputation, but I think this is a pretty healthy one. Obviously there are physical benefits to regular exercise, but more importantly for me, there are emotional and mental benefits. The training …
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