More thoughts on the recent conference experience (the Arnold’s conference in Rio, Brazil). This time, about peeing. Hugo Quinteiro and I talked and we decided there is a very small higher limit to the number of conferences we can accept to speak at each year. They will be chosen according to priority. It is more […]
Random Sunday: peeing, stress and performance – when you can’t go Read More »
I want to start with two revelations that will certainly drive more than a few readers away: I am not against the use of recreational drugs for any moral reason. In fact, in a completely rational manner, I defend the gradual legalization (and regulation) of production, industrialization and commercialization of drugs as the only possible
Powerlifting as a tool in the inner war against drugs Read More »
The period between 1983 and 2012 was probably the warmest 30 years in more than 800 years.
Claustrophobia: Global Warming will soon lock you up Read More »
The deal I made with myself was to record, every day, the things and events that I could see as having benefitted me. It was a conscious attempt to confront unproductive and/or destructive mental habits. After so many recent ordeals, I thought I had found an elegant system to avoid self-victimization. I blew it: many
He was a lifter and needed some advice on technique. I am not sure if he was aware I am a neurological/mental condition surviving person or not: the information is on the internet. It is not a secret. At some point he disclosed his condition to me. As is so often the case with PTSD,
My experience trying to “be there” for a PTSD victim veteran Read More »
Not the first, not the last. The massive immunological stress a competition generates is not exactly new to science or to sports specialists. Powerlifting is somewhat extreme in this sense. I just read Howard Penrose’s article about his flu and I bet many of us were/are exactly in the same condition. What I didn’t know
Post meet reality – part 1: respiratory infection Read More »
Back to discussing pain management in powerlifting (the previous article being “No pain, no gain – the dark side of pain in powerlifting or any sport” , I bring two new items for us to chew on: first, the results of a survey I did with competitive powerlifters about their own pain management strategies. Second,
Yes, because there’s good stress. Good stress is manageable, predictable stress. There is, there must be some stress when you are just about to get under a loaded bar with over 85% or 90% of your presumed maximum. There is obviously stress related to preparing for the potentially infinite amount of unpredictable factors at play
Bad stress and the athlete Read More »
