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Why I don’t do crossfit: the rhetoric and the argument

There are a couple of things that really bother me in the strength training blogosphere. The most annoying and dangerous is the habit of generalizing statements and making universal claims like “you should drink at least a gallon of milk every two days”, “accessory work is unnecessary for powerlifting”, “do military press if you want …

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About boys, testosterone and pads

Today I received a video from a student in his 4th week of this training cycle. He is (very) young physical educator and instructor at a gym chain in São Paulo. Nice deadlift. Pads under the bar to “protect” the floor from the 400 something pound impact. So I remembered the conversation I had with …

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Is your digestive system milk friendly or milk intolerant? A call for intellectual maturity in this debate

This is one of those issues that provides textbook case studies about controversy. From scientific controversy, through technical controversy and right into political debate. The truth is that all sides of this debate ignore a basic fact in many nutrition and health responses in general: biological individuality. It is true that milk consumption can cause …

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Powerlifting, the irresistible attraction for life and plastic armies – a letter to Jouko

  It’s funny, Jouko. I don’t care very much anymore, I guess. The administrative aka political aspect of powerlifting became somewhat of a bureacratic issue, just that. Saturday a TV station in Brazil aired a show on a Sports series about me. They obviously highlighted the fact that I survived a suicide attempt AND (but …

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Post meet reality – part 1: respiratory infection

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 …

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Pain and powerlifting (again): yes, it affects performance and how we are dealing with it

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, …

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Powerlifter Guardian Angels: Elite tactical athletes

          According to not-so-recent research, more than 95% of the world population believes in some form of deity. Along with it, usually people believe in protective entities that are frequently called “guardian angels”. If you are reading this article, chances are (95%, to be precise) that you believe in both. Supposing …

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