December 2012

Having made my point that all forms of the art are equally legitimate, interesting and honorable, I guess it’s time to understand how different they are. Actually, this is just part of a much more complicated discussion, which is that each alteration done to a lift performed with a barbell produces a new lift, a […]

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  How to find motivation and Inner Strength Look in the fridge. They often get misplaced Examine the key holder, close to the car keys. They look alike, so someone might have hung it there Do you have a dog? Get your dog to sniff someone else’s motivation and inner strength and it will find

Dear Santa: I’ve been as good a girl as it may be asked of me. So this is my wish list: Some logic. I will be grateful with just a little.  I know it is impossible to ask for honesty in human relations – that’s way too much even for imaginary creatures such as yourself or

  Did you like the title? If you are reading this line, either you liked it, hated it or you have no idea what this is all about but since it talks about blood and the millennium, you figured it could be fun. There’s a smaller chance that you share my sense of humor and

I have 11 training weeks until my first and very important powerlifting championship of the (new) year (the 2013 NAPR International Open). If there is something I have learned from a lot of reading about periodization and training strategy, plus much observation, is that the controversy will probably go on for a while. I might

I usually workout either alone or with my buddies at my home gym, known as “the powerhouse” by my friends. That day, however, I was at Crossfit Brasil with two other people, doing weightlifts. The door was open and two little boys, around ten years old, came in. They were poor children, part of the