Making weight, in addition to being one of the most difficult aspects of sport, is often the most misunderstood. Widely criticized by both those who practice and those who watch any sport divided in bodyweight classes, making weight and cutting weight are often depicted as cheating or as reckless and risky behavior. Several academic […]
By: Marilia Coutinho (@marilia_coutinho) and Eric Brown (@oracleofihop) A few weeks ago, the two of us were discussing a topic related to fitness management, with implications to marketing and sales: client retention and untapped reserve. Let’s take a look at the physical structure of most conventional gyms: there is a strip of “cardio machines”,
More thoughts on the recent conference experience (the Arnold’s conference in Rio, Brazil). This time, about peeing. Hugo Quinteiro and I talked and we decided there is a very small higher limit to the number of conferences we can accept to speak at each year. They will be chosen according to priority. It is more
Random Sunday: peeing, stress and performance – when you can’t go Read More »
First I didn’t have an Instagram account. I didn’t even have a smartphone. My argument (part of which remains untouched) is that a writer can’t have constant interruptions. Neither can a high performance athlete. Writing, especially writing longer pieces, like books, requires some level of undivided attention to your work. Lifting, too. Teaching, too. So,
Emotion and communication – let’s try again: This is an honest attempt to improve communication between people. Why do I post it on my wall? Because too many people who read my stuff failed catastrophically in their approach to communicate with me and with many others Starting your letter, e-mail, text or dialogue part
Random Sunday: emotion and communication, Christmas, meaninglessness, alpha males Read More »
I want to start with two revelations that will certainly drive more than a few readers away: I am not against the use of recreational drugs for any moral reason. In fact, in a completely rational manner, I defend the gradual legalization (and regulation) of production, industrialization and commercialization of drugs as the only possible
Powerlifting as a tool in the inner war against drugs Read More »
(part of the Epilogue to the book “About Strength and Death”) And here we reach the end of this journey across the unknown, through the passages of terror, through doubts, hesitations, courage and acceptance. The most important one is to accept who we are, even more than accept that the world is what it
Strength and death: tumbleweeds Read More »
“Get lost, quack” is an initiative to express indignation and fight off quacks, bullshitters and scammers in continued education and information in the fields of strength and conditioning. It was designed by Hugo Quinteiro, physical educator, M.Sc. in human physiology, world powerlifting champion and record holder. Hugo is a partner at MAD Powerlifting, a company
“Get lost, quack” – fighting off the fads in fitness, strength and conditioning Read More »
TO CARDIO OR NOT TO CARDIO, THAT’S THE QUESTION – I’ve been curating some content on the relationship between oxidative capacity and strength training. One thing brings to another and I “re-visited” the famous concurrent training issue. Let me frame my issue within this web of more or less correlated subjects: at this point I
Oxidative capacity and strength training Read More »
A bipolar. Not a bipolar patient or a bipolar victim. I chose not to refer to bipolars as either. That doesn’t mean he won’t be a patient or a victim. Yesterday I was unfortunately consulted about what to do in a very extreme case of bipolar 1 mania. I am not a psychiatrist and
Four reasons a lift can help a bipolar Read More »
