Did you like the title? If you are reading this line, either you liked it, hated it or you have no idea what this is all about but since it talks about blood and the millennium, you figured it could be fun. There’s a smaller chance that you share my sense of humor and […]
Raw versus equipped: the bloody war of the millennium Read More »
I have 11 training weeks until my first and very important powerlifting championship of the (new) year (the 2013 NAPR International Open). If there is something I have learned from a lot of reading about periodization and training strategy, plus much observation, is that the controversy will probably go on for a while. I might
High volume training: does it have any place in our training program? Read More »
I usually workout either alone or with my buddies at my home gym, known as “the powerhouse” by my friends. That day, however, I was at Crossfit Brasil with two other people, doing weightlifts. The door was open and two little boys, around ten years old, came in. They were poor children, part of the
The two little boys, gender stereotypes and strength sports Read More »
(blazer men: read the post) This is a comment on Dan Ariely’s article. It became a little long and I decided to post it here. The original article is: How to Stop Illegal Downloads That’s a great article, but I think there might be a line missing there. If the transgression is against some obviously reasonable
According to the law of threefold return, whatever you do will be returned to you three times. I’m a compulsive pen stealer (although not an evil one, most often I just fail to return the pen to the person from whom I borrowed it) but I never have any pens. So I figured the explanation
Karmic mathematics as applied to pen stealing Read More »
Not the first, not the last. The massive immunological stress a competition generates is not exactly new to science or to sports specialists. Powerlifting is somewhat extreme in this sense. I just read Howard Penrose’s article about his flu and I bet many of us were/are exactly in the same condition. What I didn’t know
Post meet reality – part 1: respiratory infection Read More »
There is an unusual period that follows or precedes a competition. It gets even weirder when two meets are close enough so that the funny pre-contest feeling merges with the post-contest one. That is the twilight zone. I’m at the twilight zone that followed the WPC Worlds and precedes the RPS Xmas Carnage. The WPC
Twilight zone: Columbus and more thoughts on teams and gyms Read More »
This is a list of the complaint items we have about our stay at Motel 6: We arrived on November the 12th coming from a World Championship we had participated on – we are high performance athletes. We needed to rest. On the following day, the housekeeper invaded our room a couple of times (and
Motel 6: cheap and simple is ok, cheap and gross is not Read More »
I guess I’ll just start writing whatever seems important here as “notes to self” and then organize it all later. First, because I don’t have a “note to self” file on my computer. Second, because maybe some of the input can come in handy. We were at Westside Barbell today but that’s not what
The Road to the Gold – part 3 – where to compete Read More »
Lance Armstrong is being publically lynched by Blazer Men with no legitimacy to committment with Public Health. Read more about this great athlete and Blazer Men (WADA and IOC officials) agenda.
The public lynching of Lance Armstrong Read More »
