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Ego Lifts

July 17, 2010
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All the washed-up gym rats know what I mean when I talk about the “Big Three”. They are the Squat, the Deadlift, and the Bench Press are all too often touted as the must do for any gym-goer. It’s obvious why people like to do these three lifts: You can move a ton of weight. [...]

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Auto-Regulation for Massive Strength Gains

July 8, 2010
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Auto-regulation is a process where you determine the volume and intensity of training for the day, literally based upon how you feel during that training session. The strange (and awesome) thing is, both research and anecdote has proven that training this way seems to stimulate significantly greater strength gains compared to traditional methods. If you’ve [...]

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Effort

May 26, 2010
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Most people don’t put enough effort into their training. In fact, pick whatever tasks you can think of, and you’ll find that most people partaking in that task just don’t put in real effort. For some reason, people just don’t want to do their jobs well, whether they be students, real estate agents, marketers, lawyers, [...]

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Defaults Matter

May 17, 2010

Good design is obsessed with a single goal: To allow the user access to all possible utilities with the least amount of effort. As a result, design does incorporate visual elements, but only because we as humans are such visual creatures; oftentimes the path of least resistance is the visual path. This has led to [...]

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I Train to Look Good and so do You!

April 27, 2010
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In my last post, I asked, ‘Why are you training anyway?‘. Turns out a lot of people have a flawed answer. Just pop by a commercial gym, and you’d see many people hammering away at their activities. You’d probably come across the sight of the young adolescent male doing his 5th set of bicep curls, [...]

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Why are you training anyway?

April 24, 2010
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To gym rats, the fitness junkies, and the washed-up meatheads. A message to you guys and gals: Ideally, we would be But of course, excuses get in the way.. Yet we certainly don’t want to have it take over our life, and have to ask That Said, I’m sure you have goals, and.. With that [...]

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How to get the Maximum Benefits from Stretching

April 21, 2010
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The topic of stretching is like flossing your teeth, everyone agrees that it’s good for you, many people don’t practice it, and if they do, they may not actually do it well. I do not claim complete knowledge of the topic of stretching, and we will see that different contexts call for a different approach [...]

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Bodyweight Strength Training: 6 Reasons That It’s NOT The Path to Your Goals

April 11, 2010

I make it very clear that I’m a big proponent of resistance training for optimal health. In particular I believe that the most effective and practical method of training is through lifting weights. However, one cannot ignore the tremendous physiques built by some athletes (especially gymnasts) solely through means of bodyweight strength training. In this [...]

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On Being a Commuter Cyclist

March 20, 2010
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Today’s post is going to be long and anecdotal in nature. However, I will promise a list of what I learnt from the experiences I am about to describe at the end of the post. This is a post about cycling, specifically, cycling to work/school/etc. Background I learnt to cycle when I was 6, and [...]

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Building a Home Gym

March 13, 2010
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Having worked out at various gyms over the years, from the high school gym to many public gyms, I finally decided this year to make the switch to a home gym. Note, that this home gym I’m speaking of is specific to strength training purposes. It addresses my needs perfectly, and leads to much more [...]

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