Charles was actually one of initial partners in Biotest.  H…Read more

Timed Deadlifting

The idea is simple.  Pull a single repetition of the deadlift (this method can easily be used for any exercise) on the minute for a standardized time.  I have found 20 minutes was ideal for my purposes, 10 minutes might be good fo…Read more

1) Have long term joint pain?  Get it checked out as soon as you can, thoroughly. There are some interventions that will help if you get on them right away.  Collagen supplementation, Glu…Read more

The “go around barefoot” to strengthen your feet narrative has been around for a while.  While it isn’t wrong, it’s inappropriate for someone who has issues that are stemming from their feet to pursue this to fix what is wrong with them.  You goals are a) get out of pain b) resume normal activity then finally c) fix the f…Read more

It lessened, somewhat, the unpleasantness of that style of conditioning while in…Read more

Cotter’s “Little Nine Heaven” sequence helped my son with his sleep after he had a craniotomy and 31 sessions of radiation therapy for a non-cancerous tumor that ended up destroying his pituitary.

Aside from that, treating my sleep apnea with a CPAP isn’t sexy but it sure made dramatic improvements in how I felt.  Going on 6 years now.

The above mentioned “Tyler Twist” has been very useful for elbow tendonitis (I think Sangoma originally mentioned this).

Seems like the underlying philosophy now is “load heals”.  You just have to understand how to apply that load for your condition.

That is basically it.

It’s called “The Graveyard of Empires” for a reason

Nurses and physicians are actually quitting at unprecedented rates due to
1) overwork
2) low pay
3) contraints upon their judgement on how to treat patients

Meanwhile, hospital, insurance and pharm execs are raking in money like there is no tomorrow.

Gironda was, in many ways, way ahead of his time.  Diet-wise, for sure.  Some of his exercises are awesome, some seem to wreck the joints.

I think that dropping into something like “Heavy Duty” or a Yates type high intensity bodybuilding program is perfect when you are sick of the spreadsheets

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=94413&page=1

Carb Cycling Diet, or CCD grew from trial and error and was created by Negrita Jayde, mainly due to the state of ketosis that leaves the body wreched and half dead, My friend Abdominator brout this diet to my attention from the book SLICED and is a very good r…Read more

I did find his diet idea pretty fascinating (not the food combination stuff, I’ve seen all that before and IIRC, Diamond Dallas…Read more

Goblet squats with me sitting in the bottom and doing a set of curls
Jefferson curls
T Grip bar rack push ups
Suspension trainer rows, 1 1/4 reps
Hammer curls with fat grips
T Grip bar partial dips
Grippers
run through 2-3 times then do some bar hangs for 2+ minutes…Read more

AUG15
Airdyne60/SSB Squat:  5 sets.  155 x 10 was the top set.  I was pausing and stretching out the hips in the bottom and this caused an incredible 2 days of DOMS.

AUG16
MMW1

AUG17
MMW2

AUG18
DL:  Double Overhand grip.  Worked up to 275×5.  Grip failed.  Haven’t done a DL in months.  The grip will come up to about 315×5 pretty…Read more

Andrew Huberman, of Huberman Lab podcast had some fantastic suggestions
1) first thing in the morning, you go and get sunlight outside. You need a certain amount of lumens.  In Hawaii, as in Texas, this is not a big deal.  In the north it mi…Read more

15 years ago I should have gotten my shoulders MRI’d.  I would have probably been able to adopt a different kind of plan and had a lot of capacity left in them.  Now I’m ba…Read more

I remember watching Maxwell do dips on a video for his 300 video, maybe,  and it was quite weird, almost like he was only using his elbows to do it.

On one hand, Kauai and I imagine the other Hawaiian islands, are beautiful beyond belief.  We stayed in Princeville, by Hanelei, and could only go north a few times a day due to a mud slide that fucked up the road.

On the other hand, holy fucking shit are there are ton of tourists there.  I felt bad for p…Read more

Will check out that stuff.  Looking forward to it, it’s my first trip there.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the FBI needs some reformation.  The abuses have gotten past clever all the way to egregious.

Did MM1, added an airdyne effort on top of the circuit.  Made it a bit more strenuous but I warmed up better.

airdyne 60s effort
goblet squat, 3 sets
rack push up, using t grip bar for parallel grip, 3 sets (note:  I hold an isometric at the bottom for as long as I can after each set is done)
dumbbell curls with fat grips, 3 sets.

Mahler and Cotter have made out very well indeed, as members of the first class sRKC diaspora.

Dan John does have 2 hip replacement.

Nautilus, Atkins Dieting, Kettlebells, etc….he might be in second or third, but he’s never been a pioneer.  That being said he seems super bad with building his own brand, as “durable, BJJ coach and player” is as good a place to hang his hat as any.

The problem is always in the user, not the tool.

Dan John…Read more

I suppose I should go and check.

The problem Aus and NZ are going to have is that they have zero resistance in the population, especially since Aus fucked up the vaccination program, due to the ease and severity of lockdowns.

There is no order to these.  Typically I will walk the dogs, do a MM workout, then later on in the day I’ll pick something else off the list, lately its been the…Read more

That’s pretty erudite.

In my own case, I have 6+ months of serious caloric restriction in front of me if I want to drop the weight I want to drop.

It can be a bit daunting.  Especially being set in my ways.  And liking both booze and shit food.

Never done it.  The logistics of front squatting a reasonably heavy weight at the track just never interested me.

However, I did do “Shaf-inov”

This was a combination of

Double front squat with two 32 kgs.  10 re…Read more

“I had added a moderate jog/run the following day after squats.  I began pushing the run to two days after squatting and quickly got my strength back.”

Is this surprising?  It shouldn’t be.  Bram is not a big guy.  Most of us have limited resources for recovery.

There is a reason that professional rugby players aren’t blo…Read more

Ironically, even after this new law gets put into place, voting is still more restrictive in certain northeastern coastal states and certain northwestern…Read more

From when I was in high school and running before breakfast for wrestling was ‘the’ thing to do to lose weight, to most days of the week nowadays, when I walk for an hour on an empty stomach then I might do a quick morning minimum session of either resistance work or intervals.

I haven’t seen it…Read more