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Your Monday Moment of Zen #24

Zen Quote of the Week “What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.” – Pierre Simon de Laplace (French Astronomer and Mathematician) Preliminary (Cool!) Stuff I’m super uber excited! You know that I’ve been working on the 2nd edition of my book. I think I’ll be ready to release that by… Continue Reading

Fear and Loathing at the Las Vegas Open, 2012

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Squats began to take hold … And suddenly there was a terrible roar all round us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred… Continue Reading

Your Monthly Moment of Zen #20

Zen Quote of the Month: “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell This Month in the World of Weightlifting: Lon Kilgore, Michael Hartman, and Justin Lascek have published a new book, FIT.  I’ve already grabbed… Continue Reading

Your Monthly Moment of Zen #19

Zen Quote of the Month: “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” — Muhammad Ali This Month in the World of Weightlifting Nick Horton got married!  We said, “I do”, we roller skated, we drank a lot of vodka. … Continue Reading

Your Monday Moment of Zen #14: National Pi Day!

Zen quote of the Week: “It’s hard, it’s hard as hell.  I like that it’s hard … It makes football a joke.” – John North, on the training he does for Olympic Weightlifting. This week in the world of weightlifting: Tamara “T-Bone” has a great write up of her experience watching this years 2011 Arnold… Continue Reading

The Split, Power, and Squat Jerk: Evolution at Work

A little while ago, Strength Plus magazine posted a question asking whether you would ever try, or coach someone on, the squat jerk.  The question is likely to be raised again given that at the resent 2011 Arnold Classic, during the “Island vs Mainland” competition, Kedrick Ferris bombed out using the squat jerk and Pat… Continue Reading

Your Monday Moment of Zen #9 – Happy New Year!

This week in the world of weightlifting: Riley Charlish, a talented High School Basketball Player that I’m strength coaching, was mentioned in a couple articles in the local papers here and here, because of his performance with his High School B-ball team, the Roughriders. He also got a shoutout at Oregonlive.com. The Iron Samurai made… Continue Reading

Your Monday Moment of Zen #7

  This week in the world of Weightlifting: Nick Horton is interviewed by Cedric Unholz. Risto Sports Blog outlines Bulgarian lifter, Stefan Georgiev’s training.  Note the high number of smoke breaks!! They’ve also go a great post on the Chinese team.  They make the point that while the Chinese system has produced some remarkable results… Continue Reading

Caleb Ward and Pat Mendes – “Kinda” Strong

Ok, fine, they’re crazy strong!  Check out this vid of them at the 2009 Arnold:

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