Mid Life Hard Body Practicing Things You Dont Like: Key to Improvement Sadly, the universe does...
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Longevity Research: Some Hard Questions
Longevity Research: Some Hard Questions Longevity research has gotten a lot of news coverage...
Enjoying a Long Healthy Life: You Cant Fool Mother Nature
Enjoying a Long Healthy Life: You Cant Fool Mother Nature This past week a friend sent me an...
Inexpensive (almost free) Techniques to Improve Your Strength and Power
Inexpensive (almost free) techniques to improve your strength and power. We often fall prey to the idea that it is necessary that a gadget be expensive for it to help us improve our strength and/or power. If something is expensive, we tend to assume that it must be...
Exercise and High Quality Longevity: Some new Tips and Tricks
Exercise and High-Quality Longevity: Some new Tricks and Tips High quality longevity means getting old(er) and feeling great. It means not having physical limitations on what you want to do (within reason). As I write this article Im a month from being 81 years old...
The Obesity Epidemic: Why it will be Hard to Reverse
Why are so many people so fat? Unfortunately, the answer is simple. They eat too much for their level of activity. What can we do about it? Straightforward, but definitely NOT easy. In this essay Ill offer a bit of perspective on why so many of us are obese and what...
What can Powerlifters Learn from Golfers
With the Masters Golf Championship being played this week in Augusta, Georgia, I happened to hear an interview on Freakonomics Radio with Greg Norman one of the all-time great golfers. I should note that I know almost nothing about golf. I do not even know where you...
Learning From Failure: Ideas for Powerlifters from the Harvard Business Review
Everyone pays lip service to the idea that we should learn from your mistakes. That is a nice idea, but it sidesteps the issue of precisely what you are supposed to learn and how? If you are going to learn something it must be useful for managing your training or...
Your First Powerlifting Meet
Your first powerlifting meet can be an exciting, exhilarating and rewarding experience. It can also be frustrating, confusing and humbling. If you know what to expect, and what you must do to be prepared, good things are more likely to happen. I have enjoyed competing...