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The New Rules of Lifting for Women
In The New Rules of Lifting for Women, authors Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove present a comprehensive strength, conditioning, and nutrition plan destined to...
The New Rules of Lifting
Ten unique programs for fat loss, muscle gain, and strength improvement for beginners and elite lifters. Want to get more out of your workout and spend less...
The Book of Muscle
The World's Most AUTHORITATIVE Guide to Building Your Body You probably know a lot about building muscle. You know which curl is the best for your biceps,...
The Testosterone Advantage Plan
Wide shoulders, narrow waist, thick chest, muscular arms and legs: today's male ideal physique is the same as that of ancient Greece. Aerobics and the Food...
The Home Workout Bible
Get bigger biceps, broad shoulders, a bigger bench press, powerful legs, cut abs . . . without ever leaving your home! The body you want, in the space...
Built For Show
No-nonsense workouts to build a lean, strong, eye-catching physique. Every young, single guy is looking for an edge, some way to get single women his age to...
Huge In A Hurry
Men's Health Huge in a Hurry will add inches to your muscles and increase your strength, with noticeable results quickly, no matter how long you've been...
And the secret is: don't play golf.
I played yesterday for the first time since fall 2008, and I had one of my best rounds in years. I had two disaster holes -- including a 9 on a par 3 -- that kept me from breaking 100....
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Is it really May? And is it really possible that I haven't posted anything here since January? I would say that time flies, but in my experience it just crawls along, and sometimes the best I can do is crawl along with it.
The past few months...
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Happy New Year ... just 14 days after the fact.
Some quick updates:
* I went back to my old site, Male Pattern Fitness, with a guest article. In it, I review my favorite new workout books of the past 12 months, including Adam Campbell's outstanding Big Book of...
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One of the real joys of the holiday season is reading the annual Christmas letters from family and friends. The best letters manage to be funny, clever, poignant, self-mocking, and most of all brutally honest -- quite a trick to pull off with just a few hundred...
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The news about my mother gets more disturbing all the time. At Thanksgiving dinner, I was told, she referred to her daughter-in-law with a vile epithet ... even though she was in that daughter-in-law's home, and the insulted person had just cooked dinner for 11 members...
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Here's a sample of the new information and insight I picked up from Mike Boyle's Functional Strength Coach 3.0, the eight-DVD set that I mentioned in this post:
Mike categorizes exercises with a small variation on the original Ian King system. In addition to the well-known designations...
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The biggest news last week, judging by the reaction on Internet strength-training forums, is Mike Boyle's attack on conventional squats, particularly the part where he looks right into the camera and says, "Don't do conventional squats anymore."
Doesn't get any less ambiguous than that.
Boyle's rationale is that the...
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