(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 »
Assunto chato. A Mamut Strong me deve pelo menos R$15.000,00 – eu tenho como provar porque o skype mantém registro do tempo de log e eu era importunada o tempo todo. Também tenho os e-mails. A soma de horas é muito alta. Fora isso, foram executados trabalhos de: 1. reelaboração de conteúdo técnico do site
“Comigo não, charlatão” é uma iniciativa do Hugo Quinteiro, expressando uma indignação geral dos profissionais que atuam na área da educação continuada e extensão universitária no treinamento. Hoje existe um fenômeno assustador de “autoridades auto-proclamadas”. Isso não é só no Brasil. Estas auto-proclamadas autoridades reivindicam para si, sem o menor pudor, qualificações que não possuem:
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 »
This is Carlos Daniel Llosa’s acknowledgement text concerning BPL’s “elite nationals”. Carlos Daniel is the new president of the BPL and this is the first year we decided to have elite nationals. Both need some context for proper understanding. The BPL is a non-profit NGO. Pioneers I have learned a lot from have been telling
Brazilian Powerlifting League – the new president sees new hope Read More »
A história do treinamento físico é fascinante em diversos aspectos. Um dos mais interessantes é a invenção e desenvolvimento de equipamentos. Ninguém sabe exatamente por que os halteres foram chamados de “dumbbells”. Uma das hipóteses é que monges utilizavam sinos sem badalo para condicionamento físico e de força: sinos, “Bells”; mudos, “dumb”. Se é assim
O equipamento não define o treinamento – o treinamento define o equipamento Read More »
(a sequence to my writings about sponsorship in marginal individual sports) The return over investment (ROI) for companies in sport are chiefly in events. Big companies will spend big bucks on big events. That’s it: plain and simple. Maybe your return would be proportionally higher, but given the magnitude of what is at stake, it
Five reality check items for individual athletes in their struggle for sponsorship Read More »
This is a sequence to my previous article about sports sponsorship for individual athletes in marginal sports. Good news: it applies to any opinion maker: not only athletes, not only in marginal sports (which really shouldn´t be emphasized in a negotiation, like “hey, my sport is so marginal that nobody ever heard about it”). These
Six questions a company needs to ask before sponsoring an athlete or opinion maker Read More »
It became a kind of tradition: whenever I’m in the North East Coast, I drive up to NJ and spend an afternoon with Shawn. We’ve been digital friends since 2006 and he was actually my first coach. In 2011, in one of these visits, he picked up a large bag and said: “here, John Inzer
Follow the knee wraps: John Inzer, Shawn Lattimer and “giving back to the sport” Read More »
