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“Just powerlifting” X “Passion” – time to take a breath and understand what “the other” is saying

I might be playing the mother-figure here in saying both are right and that you possibly agree more than not. Most people who know me also know that I belong to the second class for a very strong reason: it was the accidental discovery of powerlifting that saved my life. I abandoned an academic career […]

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Powerlifting branching meanings 2: the Spider Boys

Each person has their own reasons to dedicate increasing time, effort, money and other important resources to something that renders no financial benefit. Sport is defined as institutionalized game and game is an autotelic activity, which means it is an end unto itself. Amateur, marginal sports are that plus more: you don’t get external resources

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Questions I receive – an example of users’ entitlement and abuse

Questions I receive – an example worth sharing for many (bad) reasons   (I have corrected punctuation and grammar errors and translated in readable form: it was originally in bad Portuguese) Question: “Hello Marilia, I would first like to congratulate you because I think you are one of the best female Brazilian powerlifters. You have

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Into the mind of the coach: Richard Ficca

(Read the other interviews – links at the project’s page, “Into the mind of the coach“) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born and raised in Tampa, Florida.  Between college and the US Military I have also lived

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Laissez-fair athleticism

Sunday was an interesting day: as in many international meets, we had the chance of comparing local institutional components for sports development in different countries. As one of us described in detail the conditions in which corruption and/or outright organized crime ruled the strength sports, the fights and other sports in South America, our friend

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The Powerlifting Watch “a brainstorm with strong women” project

I devised this project some time ago as an experiment: instead of individually interviewing a number of strength athletes, the idea was to leave the question as a discussion item for anyone who identified herself as a strong woman. What did strength represent for them? How did strength interact with their self-representation as women or

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Seven wrong reasons to get a new gym membership

I will conquer the perfect body That is listed among the main reasons for losing members at gyms. He or she will enroll after digesting gigabytes of advertisement (and indoctrination) about some ideal shape. That is what I call “formolatry” – the idolatry of an unhuman shape. It doesn’t exist, it has never existed and

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Into the mind of the coach: Greg Nuckols

(“Into the mind of the coach” – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born in 1991 and grew up in rural North Carolina.  I went to college in Searcy, Arkansas, and since then I’ve

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Into the mind of the coach: Jason Manenkoff

(“Into the mind of the coach” – all the interview links) Please tell us something about yourself: where and when were you born and places you lived. Where do you live now? I was born in Queens NY in 1982. I grew up in Rockland County New York. For those that don’t know, Rockland County

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