Keep Your Chin Up – How to master the king of relative strength tests Chin-ups are a strange animal. They can humble the strongest lifter as easily as an unsatisfied ex-girlfriend. On the other hand, mastering the art of the chin-up — doing lots of solid, easy reps —is always impressive and is generally well correlated[…]
DIRECT APPROACH OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTING PROGRAM Joe And Virgil Dube 31 July 2008 DIRECT APPROACH OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTING PROGRAM BY: JOE DUBE and VIRGIL DUBE Since first presenting this idea to certain coaches and a few lifters, they have shown interest and wanted better clarification, a direct approach program of sorts. Below is a hypothetical program we’ve[…]
SOLITUDE “I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.” Marlow—Heart of Darkness I’ve heard it argued many times that the reason for the UK’s fitness failures is some combination of ignorance and inaccessibility.[…]
Top 13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick and Fat October 24, 2013 by Jeff Kuhland | September 9, 2013 | by Kris Gunnars Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense.The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world[…]
THE SLAMMER (A HOW TO GUIDE TO MAKING YOUR OWN MEDICINE BALLS) By Pierre Augé An Issue that many have had to deal with over the years is how and where to get an inexpensive implement for effective physical training. Now I’m not going to drag you along with a great history of how the[…]
INGREDIENTS: BRAISING STEAK DICED – 1kg/ 2.2lbs COCONUT OIL – 1 tsp FRESHLY GROUND BLACK PEPPER – 1 tsp SMOKED PAPRIKA – 1 tsp ONION POWDER – 1tsp GARLIC POWDER – 1tsp GARLIC – 3 cloves (or less if you do not like garlic) SWEET ONION – 1 large TOMATO PASSATA – 4 fluid ozs/118ml BALSAMAIC[…]
“All disease begins in the gut. “ – Hippocrates Hippocrates said this more than 2,000 years ago, but we’re only now coming to understand just how right he was. Research over the past two decades has revealed that gut health is critical to overall health, and that an[…]
There are three principles to supplementing wisely: – Get nutrients from food whenever possible. – Take nutrients in their naturally occurring form whenever possible. – Be selective with your supplementation. – Get nutrients from food whenever possible – Humans are adapted to getting nutrients from whole foods. Most nutrients require enzymes, synergistic co-factors and organic[…]
REAL FOOD” IS: Whole, unprocessed and unrefined pasture-raised (a.k.a. grass-fed) and wild local, seasonal and organic Let’s look at each of these in turn. Whole, processed and unrefined: if it comes in a bag or a box, don’t eat it! The introduction of industrial food processing has without a doubt had the most detrimental[…]
In step #1, we talked about what not to eat. In this article, we’ll talk about what to eat. Most of the calories we get from food come from protein, carbohydrates and fat. These are referred to as macronutrients. We also get other important nutrients from food, such as vitamins and minerals.[…]