I have shifted my training emphasis from strength and muscle-building to conditioning and endurance. Granted these are on a continuum so one is likely never done without at least some of the other. So, from a capped weekly volume of “hard sets” that reach mechanical and approach muscular failure, I have moved to high volume,Continue reading “New Training Emphasis and a Funny Not-So-Funny Story about Eugen Sandow”
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The Food Pyramid Scam Scam
The food pyramid is not killing us. Social media and online life are killing us. I’m a recovering ancestral diet enthusiast. What comes with enthusiasm for the ancestral diet and everything else that accompanies it is susceptibility to the belief that all of modern nutrition and in fact modern medicine are wrong and misleading us.Continue reading “The Food Pyramid Scam Scam”
I Can See Clearly Now
In two months I’ll be sixty years of age. I’ve been practicing calisthenics for fifteen years. But as much as I have preached the value of progressive work, I have not practiced it. Until now. Everything came together for me a few years ago when I found Kyle Boggeman’s Youtube channel. He made what IContinue reading “I Can See Clearly Now”
Maximizing Calisthenics Training Effectiveness for Strength and Hypertrophy: Three Pillars (Volume Reconsidered)
What about load? Younger strength trainers would surely include load as a pillar and likely make it number 1. Back in my weightlifting days it was all about load. You have to train heavy to get big, right? Actually, no. Just about any rep range from 5-35 can build muscle. Training heavy has its place but eventually the bill comes due. TheContinue reading “Maximizing Calisthenics Training Effectiveness for Strength and Hypertrophy: Three Pillars (Volume Reconsidered)”
Form Is Everything 