I often read some of my favorite coaches writing about sacrifice and lifestyle in training and becoming strong. I know they accomplish what they mean, which is to motivate novices. I’m not sure, but I think a dose of dark truth would be good for these young minds as well. Until the WPC […]
Can you afford not to be that strong? Read More »
Acredito que estamos vendo mais uma ilustração da perversão que a indústria do entretenimento faz no esporte. Para a maioria aqui, essa frase não fará sentido: quase todos vocês só conhecem o esporte profissional sob o reinado desta indústria. Porém, esta associação econômica, como todo fenômeno e instituição social, tem história. A maioria das modalidades
Anderson Silva nocauteado pela indústria do entretenimento Read More »
I believe we just watched another illustration of the perversions that the entertainment industry can do to the sports. Most readers will have a hard time making sense of this claim: you were all born under this industry’s domain. As every social institution or phenomenon, though, this association has a history. Today, most popular and/or
Anderson Silva X Entertainment Industry: the sport loses Read More »
“Meu deus, meu deus, meu deus, que coisa perfeita”, dizia eu quando vi aquele bebê pela primeira vez. Hoje, passados 24 anos, penso, mas não digo mais. Não digo porque ela se incomoda com minha incapacidade em reconhecer suas supostas imperfeições. Onde estão as imperfeições da matéria? Olho para mim no espelho e às vezes
A imperfeição da matéria Read More »
The week before the last had been a total disaster. Last week I have not only done some progress, but actually hit a number of PRs. How can that be? The definition of “record” is an unsurpassed measurement. Nobody said it had to be a max-out (the maximum effort movement at any lift). Seen under
Learning to appreciate little PR’s Read More »
Nem sempre eu posso dar a atenção que eu gostaria aos meus atletas. Sei que estou devendo um planejamento mais detalhado a pelo menos dois deles, e dos bons: Netto e Miriam. Quero deixar claro aqui o que eu chamo de “meus” atletas: Meus atletas são aqueles que vêm aos campeonatos da ANF e competem
That’s an important question about the mysterious process all strength athletes are interested in. Physical strength is the ability to exert strength against an external resistance, but that’s not what you are interested in: you’re not a bodybuilder. For us, strength is a complex cognitive, mental, neural, endocrine, muscular-joint-skeleton system of producing the most efficient
What does it mean to get stronger Read More »
“But you don’t hate guys, do you?” “you’re not a radical, are you?” These are things that I hear from friends that are more or less (some more, some less, but all a little bit) weary of my involvement with feminism. How can someone like me, meaning an athlete, a cis-heterosexual woman, supposedly uninterested in
Sports and feminism – no proselytism, just some clarification Read More »
Brandon Lilly posted another interesting comment about powerlifting and attitude today. This is it: “If I gave up when I felt like I’d never get any better I’d have quit when I fell to the ground, busted my lip, and bloodied my nose when I tried to squat 135 lbs for the first time. I
About giving up (thoughts on Brandon’s thoughts) Read More »
Yesterday I sat in my chair at the office and – yuck – realized I had smeared my boots with dog shit. On a closer – double yuck – look, or, rather, smell I figured it was a mixture of dog shit and carrion. It was almost 1AM, I was home from having dinner with
When life is its own metaphor: heavy and smelly Read More »
