Having made my point that all forms of the art are equally legitimate, interesting and honorable, I guess it’s time to understand how different they are. Actually, this is just part of a much more complicated discussion, which is that each alteration done to a lift performed with a barbell produces a new lift, a […]
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How to find motivation and Inner Strength Look in the fridge. They often get misplaced Examine the key holder, close to the car keys. They look alike, so someone might have hung it there Do you have a dog? Get your dog to sniff someone else’s motivation and inner strength and it will find
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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
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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
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Existem vários artigos muito bons sobre “treinamento de strongman” (todos em inglês, é claro). No entanto, quase todos eles se referem a um treinamento baseado no esporte Strongman ou utilizando o repertório de exercícios e movimentos do mesmo. Qual a diferença? O Strongman é um esporte caracterizado pela multiplicidade de expressões da força e de
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
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(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
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
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Aqui eu começo os relatos, os quais depois voltam ao início da viagem. São 6 da manhã do dia seguinte da minha competição. Meu terceiro dia na competição em si. Começo pelo item de interesse imediato dos leitores: a minha performance. Sim, eu venci o campeonato. Sim, quebrei dois recordes: supino e total. Foi bom?
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Hoje eu tive um sonho mais para pesadelo. O começo não tinha nada de original: igualzinho aos filmes de terror com mortos vivos. As pessoas se contaminavam por contato e iam apodrecendo. Num determinado momento minha filha foi contaminada e eu precisava realmente descobrir como enfrentar o problema. Descobri que se ela se mantivesse o
