From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Ah, dinner

July 27, 2009

Tonight I have a simple, healthy, and additive-free recipe for dinner:
dark chicken meat
1/2 cup olive oil
1 cup water
juice of 3 lemons
3 potatoes cut like French Fries
1 head of garlic
oregano

cooked @ 350 for about 1.25 hours
I’ll eat it slowly and think of the nourishment it is providing. I’ll eat a sensible portion and stop eating when [...]

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Training

July 22, 2009

This morning I went to my porch at about 7:15 and drug the kettlebell out of the porch closet. It was 94 degrees. Much better than working out at 110 in the afternoon.
I’ve been thinking of Arthur Saxon who did a bunch of exercises like this for workout:

Overhead Press
One-Arm Press
Bent Press
Snatch
Cleans
One-Arm Snatch
One-Arm [...]

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Exercise is Not Torture

July 14, 2009

I often hear people lamenting and laughing at their failure to get regular exercise. How did this come about?
It’s a strange problem of developed nations—people don’t take care of themselves when they have all the opportunities to do so easily.
Often, these are otherwise successful people who fail miserably in one particular aspect of life: [...]

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Do Big Exercises, Do Few Reps

July 6, 2009

When I first started training back in 1994, I did sequences of many, many exercises, and many, many reps.
That’s how a lot of people train because they have been convinced to split their body up into parts: chest and triceps, back and biceps, legs and shoulders. Even people new to exercise quickly pick up on [...]

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