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 […]
Questions I receive – an example of users’ entitlement and abuse Read More »
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
Laissez-fair athleticism Read More »
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
The Powerlifting Watch “a brainstorm with strong women” project Read More »
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
Seven wrong reasons to get a new gym membership Read More »
(“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
Into the mind of the coach: Greg Nuckols Read More »
(“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
Into the mind of the coach: Jason Manenkoff Read More »
Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F. Bruno It is funny because it was right under our nose. Yet it took us a situation of training chaos (a vacation in which you cannot predict where you will train and when) to connect the dots. Our approach to training is movement based. We don’t train parts of the body. We
A simple way to split your training and how to complicate it Read More »
Marilia Coutinho and Antonio F Bruno Last week Marilia told a bodybuilder friend about the Powerhouse (her home gym). But don’t you have at least a pulley? No… no pulley Dumbbells?… No, no dumbbells. They are on my list for soon, but I don’t know when soon will be. So he came to visit and was taken
Gainz with just a barbell and a bench Read More »
This is another of those potentially boring articles based on reason, as opposed to passion. Beliefs concerning the superiority of one form of lifting over the other have been addressed by various authors. The idea that raw lifting is a return to the roots of the sport has been debunked, as historians of the
When raw or equipped are not really choices, but health decisions Read More »
