I first got back into lifting weights properly when we moved to our current house, which has an integral garage. Soon after we moved in, I started messing around on a pull-up bar and doing a few dips here and there. Things moved quickly after that and before long there was a squat rack crowding [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Strength'
The importance of being: consistent
July 27th, 2010 2 Comments
A while ago, I was only half-listening to a conversation between friends when I thought I heard someone say “the importance of being honest”, when actually, of course, they said “the importance of being earnest”. It made me laugh at the time but as I thought more about it, I realised that being honest, particularly being honest [...]
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Top 10 (old) Elite FTS articles
July 20th, 2010 No Comments
Recently, one of my favourite sites on the internet, Elite FTS, underwent a revamp. It was one of the oldest strength sites on the internet (some of the oldest articles are just text on a white background) and it was starting to look a little bit shabby compared with the flash colours and design of [...]
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New website: Strength Rules
July 14th, 2010 No Comments
There is so much happening at the moment on the strength scene. Last week, I reported that David Gentle has a new website. This week, I am delighted to announce that Josh Hanagarne, of World’s Strongest Librarian fame, has launched a new strength blog called Strength Rules, although knowing Josh, that should probably be Strength [...]
New website for David Gentle
July 6th, 2010 1 Comment
A little while ago, I did a series of posts about the great material that you can find on the Sandow Plus and Maxalding websites about oldtime strongman. These two sites are the benchmark internet repository for the huge amount of material that was written both by and about the great strongmen who lived between the close [...]
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