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Miscellaneous Miscellany Monday: Last Chance for the Boston Workshop and Internet Drama!

1. At the expense of sounding like a broken record or your spouse or significant other who’s always nagging you to take out the garbage, I just wanted to remind everyone one last time that there are still a handful of spots left in mine and Dean Somerset’s Boston Workshop this coming weekend (July 27-28th). […]

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Spectrums of Absolute Strength vs. Absolute Speed

Today’s guest post comes to you via strength coach, Adam Rees, owner of GRITGym located in Iowa City, Iowa (the home state of one Capt. James T. Kirk, thank you very much). I’ve long championed the notion that strength is the foundation for everything else. You can’t have power, agility, endurance, a great hair day, […]

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Help My Pal, Elsbeth Vaino, Get Her Fat Loss Documentary to the Masses

I’ve never held back my disdain towards certain trends in this industry – especially as it pertains to the mainstream media. Shows like The Biggest Loser, with its overarching theme that obesity is the individually controlled consequence of gluttony and laziness and its incessant highlighting of unsustainable (and I’d argue dangerous) weight loss tactics, as […]

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Deadlift Dominance: 5 Tips to Build Massive Pulling Power

Note: the following is an excerpt from my latest article on BodyBuilding.com (full article is linked to at the bottom). I think it’s pretty awesome. And if you think it’s pretty awesome too, then please (pretty please) “Like” it on the BB.com website and share it on all of your social media. I’ll be […]

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Why I Don’t Use the Olympic Lifts

Blogging is funny sometimes. There are instances where I feel I put a lot of time and effort into a post thinking to myself that I’m easily going to win some kind of blogging Pulitzer or that I’m going to step outside my apartment and a ticker-tape parade will just spontaneously erupt complete with a […]

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