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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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Let's say you're a guy who's always been ... different. You realized this when you were 12, and lifted a piece of heavy farm equipment -- a Troybilt rototiller -- out of a pickup truck all by yourself.
When you finally got around to strength training,...
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The New York Times has a snoozer of a story on "muscles in a bottle" in today's editions.
But I think it's worth commenting on for several reasons:
1. The story quotes physician and drug-testing expert Linn Goldberg, as well as attorney Rick Collins, both of whom I...
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I think every guy who lifts, at some point, looks around the gym and wonders what the hell everyone else thinks they're accomplishing. They're using too much or too little weight, or doing useless or dangerous exercises, or have terrible form.
A lot of times the...
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I'm not much for press events--I've spent most of my two decades as a journalist avoiding them--but I sure wish I could've attended this one. (No one invited me, but that's beside the point.)
Friends of the late Joe Gold, who died last month at 82, gathered...
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First it was fat. The all-purpose dietary demon has been mostly rehabilitated into an important part of a healthy diet.
Now it's lactic acid. When I first started lifting in commercial gyms, in the early '80s, the accepted wisdom was that lactic acid caused post-workout muscle soreness.
Not...
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So now we know: The track coach who blew the whistle on BALCO--the guy who turned in the syringe that contained a trace of the "designer steroid" that turned out to be THG--is Trevor Graham.
Graham is coach of Justin Gatlin, who won the 100-meter gold...
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