This is the fifth week of workouts after Christmas and I am going to hold to my New Year’s Resolutions (how are you doing with yours by the way?) and enforce a deload period on myself. I can’t quite bring myself to do a full week (!) but I’ll have a go at deloading quite [...]
Entries from January 29th, 2010
Workouts for Saturday 30 January to Friday 5 February
January 29th, 2010 Comments Off
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Don’t miss these great links!
January 28th, 2010 Comments Off
The New Year is getting into gear now. Here are some more links for you to enjoy… If you read nothing else this week, read this account of how Dr Michael Eades discovered that the low-carb diet can be the key to reducing cholesterol and losing fat. It always jars with me now when friends [...]
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Confessions: I like beer
January 27th, 2010 Comments Off
I care about my health and I believe that what you eat makes a huge difference to your health over time. So I am very careful about what I eat. I am careful to eat what I think is good for me rather than what tastes nice or what other people think I should eat. [...]
Tags: Beer · Confessions
Make your own fat bar
January 26th, 2010 8 Comments
I have wanted a fat bar for a while. I gave it quite a lot of thought and did some research into how other people have made them. Adam T Glass has made one for less than $10 using a steel fence post. I looked into using this method but I couldn’t find the right sort [...]
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The Golden Age of Strongmen
January 25th, 2010 2 Comments
To those of you who’ve stayed the course, congratulations, and to newcomers welcome. This is the final post in a long series about the remarkable weightlifting insights that we can learn from the oldtime strongmen. The majority of the resources on the internet can be found at Sandow Plus and Maxalding so please do visit [...]
Tags: Eugen Sandow · old school weightlifting · strongman · strongmen
