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A comment on Dan Ariely: illegal downloads, doping and how the transgressor represents himself

(blazer men: read the post) This is a comment on Dan Ariely’s article. It became a little long and I decided to post it here. The original article is: How to Stop Illegal Downloads   That’s a great article, but I think there might be a line missing there. If the transgression is against some obviously reasonable

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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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The Road to the Gold – parte 1 (finalmente) – para brasileiros

Introdução Todo relato passado é uma construção. Todo fato passado é fruto de uma escavação seletiva. O passado é um recurso heurístico: ele não é um lugar que está lá para visitas a vivências. O passado está em movimento. A história desta aventura, contada hoje, não é a mesma se relatada ao longo do caminho.

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Twilight zone: Columbus and more thoughts on teams and gyms

There is an unusual period that follows or precedes a competition. It gets even weirder when two meets are close enough so that the funny pre-contest feeling merges with the post-contest one. That is the twilight zone. I’m at the twilight zone that followed the WPC Worlds and precedes the RPS Xmas Carnage. The WPC

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The Road to the Gold – parte 4 – a questão da equipe

  Estamos aqui no nosso ultimo dia em Columbus. Logo mais vamos visitar a Dogg House Gym, outro nicho de treinamento de força de alto nível aqui. Por “nós”, quero dizer o Diego Figueroa e eu. Viemos sozinhos, assim como Carlos Daniel Llosa e eu fomos sozinhos a Barranquilla no campeonato Sul Americano do WPC.

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The Road to the Gold – part 3 – where to compete

  I guess I’ll just start writing whatever seems important here as “notes to self” and then organize it all later. First, because I don’t have a “note to self” file on my computer. Second, because maybe some of the input can come in handy. We were at Westside Barbell today but that’s not what

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