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And it’s Thursday again!  Another great set of links for you to enjoy.

However, if you’d like to read a proper training article today as well, please check out Training at Home or in your Garage, which is a guest post I wrote for A1Supplements.  And don’t forget to take the poll if you think it’s a good article!

• First up, the Star Wars link for this week is a photo montage of the lego Death Star being built.  Look on my works, ye mighty and despair!
• Now let’s leave levity behind us and get technical.  Jerry Brainium at IronManMagazine explains why eating whole eggs is better for fat loss than just eating egg whites.  Apparently, eating whole eggs promotes body fat loss by inducing a more stable blood glucose/insulin balance, as well as lowering levels of hormones that increase hunger.  I never knew.
• Staying technical, check out this interesting post on Squat RX about widening your squat stance.  I’m fairly comfortable with my medium width stance at the moment but I’m fairly sure that if I rocked up to a powerlifting gym, they’d badger me into squatting wider.
• Bob Whelan has published another article by Alan Calvert about upper back training, particularly the trapezius.  He has some interesting things to say about shrugs and rows, as well as the development of the musculature.
• The Tight Tan Slacks of Dezso Ban has published an article by Jim Halliday about the importance of organising your life well to meet your goals.  Its quite a comprehensive article, which discusses the different challenges faced by manual labourers and office workers and the importance of rest and relaxation as well as training.
• I enjoy reading Aaron Friday’s writing.  He’s always entertaining and he always has something to say.  This well-written post about Evander Holyfield’s current financial predicament sets out the facts and drives the point home: it’s quite hard to spend $250m even if you’re really going for it.  Even if you have a really, really big TV.
• And speaking of TV, Seth Godin steps up another rung in my estimation by coming out and admiting that he doesn’t watch TV.  Ever.  Now, if he were to admit to not even owning a TV, then I would probably have to lobby for him to be canonized immediately.  Anyway.  While telling us that he doesn’t watch TV, Seth notes that there are loads of better things to do.  Like blogging, for example.
• I was not impressed to see that the average UK resident believes that youth ends at 35 years old and old age begins at 58 years old.  That means I only have 3 years of youth left!  It won’t be long before I’m middle aged!
• I thought these high-speed photography images were definitely worth a few minutes to chuckle over.  I’ve seen the one of the German Shepherd barking at the spaniel before and I wasn’t disappointed by the rest.
• Glenn Pendlay has put together a mass gain template for lifters who are already doing their fair share of volume.  It involves concentric-only movements, like heavy ball throws and sled dragging to avoid excessive soreness and overtraining.
• And speaking of soreness, I confess to a certain level of schadenfreude when I read Mike Robertson’s account of a bodybuilding workout he did with a training partner, which left him still aching days later.

And for the YouTube videos of the week, check out Rob Russell doing 8 reps with the 69kg replica Inch dumbbell.

And here is the fourth annual SW Florida Strongman competition, care of Samson Strength and Conditioning:

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