Posts Tagged: benchpress

Strength Research Project

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I‘m looking for a few good men (and some women too).  Using some principles gathered from both research and experimentation that I’ve done, I feel pretty confident that I can create a pretty remarkable and foolproof method for increasing strength with basic exercises.  Perhaps the best part is the miminal amount of exertion required to get this strength increase.  My own benchpress has increased about 30 pounds in the last 6 weeks with just a couple minutes of total exertion.  This 30-pound increase equals the increase in bench that I’ve experienced from age 14 to 34 with sporadic training, and a ton of total work overall, so I’m pretty psyched.  Of course, a recurring theme here is getting the most reward for the least amount of time, effort, and life disruption… Read more »

No Diets in 2013!

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Happy New Year everyone!  It’s usually around this time every year that I encourage and empower people to, instead of gearing up to set goals in opposition to oneself (New Year’s Resolutions), especially as it pertains to exercise and dietary habits - to actually commit to spending a whole year without being on some kind of diet.  Instead of writing some passionate essay about it, I defer to what is arguably the most popular post I’ve ever written – Weight Fixation: “Waist” of Time. 2012 was a big year.  Just last week I was reading through an old book of mine, and it was like I was reading the writing of a stranger.  It made me think about just how far I’ve come since the days of paddling through the sea of conflicting ideas and… Read more »