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Guidelines to send news/material to my content production at Powerlifting Watch in case I don’t find you first

DISCLAIMER: you don’t HAVE to do this. I try to comb the web as best as I can to find you. However, if I don’t and you wish to be part of one of the series bellow, please download the files and get back to me. I have much interest in your content and maybe …

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Adults afraid of squatting with the bar: you and the rest of the world, don’t worry

To my dear friends just starting their journey   This is just a note to my many friends, and students’ clients who are afraid of squatting with the bar for the first time. I have some words for you: I understand you are frustrated and I am with you on your quest. I’m here if …

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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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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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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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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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