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[Full Fucking Redux] Baddest Motherfuckers Ever- Bruno "The Italian Superman"...
[Here is what amounts to a complete rewrite of my Bruno Sammartino article- I found much more information on the man, and the guy is such a goddamned legend he deserves far better than my original...
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A Public Service Announcement from Bruce Randall: "For Fuck's Sweet Sake....
Bruce Randall went from nothing to fat badass to shredded ladies man in three years, natty af. Begin the naysaying, skinny-fat internet nobodies!Having been positively besieged with questions over the...
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Behold The Mighty Chuck Ahrens, Whose Corpse Takes Brobdingnagian Shits On...
Perhaps the most unfairly maligned motherfucker in the history of the strength world was a man who would have undoubtedly despised me- Chuck Ahrens. Known as the strength world's "Mystery Man", Chuck...
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Who The Fuck Says You Have To Squat? Steve Merjanian, His 500lb Incline...
If the cannibalistic weightlifting community in The Bad Batch isn't the closest cinematic thing to Valhalla ever, I will eat my goddamned laptop. Die Antwoord, jacked people, and human barbecues going...
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Zabo Koszewski Would Like To Remind You That Not Every Lifter In The 1950's...
I am often asked why I don't write about so-and-so bodybuilder / strongman / powerlifter, and why I seem to ignore anyone who competed after 2000. The reason for this is simple- lifters in the modern...
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[Full Fucking Redux] Baddest Motherfuckers Ever- Chuck "Wrath Of The Natty...
[This is a complete rewrite of my ancient Chuck Sipes article- the guy was such a fucking beast he deserves afittingly brutal treatment, and given my penchant for writing about the lifters of the 1950s...
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Science Is A Liar Sometimes... And This Is Why 'Science-Based' Natty...
Stanislaus Zbyszko and his allegedly-impossible-for-a-natty-lifter 20.5" arms. No matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity...
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Bud Jeffries- Epic Strongman, Peerless Powerlifter, Noble Savage. And A...
Having regaled you guys with tales of semi-mythical lifters who rarely, if ever, competed, I thought it would be prudent to introduce you to the modern era's answer to Chuck Ahrens- Bud Jeffries. Six...
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Fuck Buying Weight Gainers- Bulking Shakes Of The Golden Age
In the aftermath of my run of articles about brobdingnagian badasses from the era of surf rock (if listening to that dogshit was the key to a 500lb bench I'd stop doing the fucking lift altogether)...
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Berserker Or Zen Monk? Choosing The Path To Victory Means Knowing Yourself,...
Every time I have ever run across an article regarding the correct mindset for success in the gym or in sport, it was written with a specific viewpoint in mind is right and any other is patently...
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Hugh Cassidy- Teeth Are For Strongman And Eating Your Way Through Sticking...
Plateaus- exactly like the Babadook, only scary and real.Plateaus are the ever-present bane of every lifter's existence. Over time, a lot of us just develop the ability to change our focus- we switch...
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John McWilliams, The Reason You Should Pay Attention To The Arm And Bench...
If there is any person in your gym more unjustly maligned than the dude with the biggest arms in the gym, I am a Chinese jet pilot. For the last decade and a half, the arm specialists have labored in...
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Training For The Apocalypse Part 2- The Nuclear Option And Robot Rape
The apocalypse is gonna be too dope.In the first installment of this series, published ages ago in a land far, far away, we examined the manner in which one should train for two apocalyptic scenarios-...
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The Dubious Value Of Eccentricity
The following is an essay I wrote almost in its entirety a couple of years ago in a fit of frustration with the state of strength sports, and shit's only gotten worse. I happened to come across it...
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The Feast or Famine Diet, Part 1
The Feast or Famine DietHunger Burns the Fat Off Man’s SoulFood has never been more readily available, consistently healthy, or instantly accessible than the era in which we now live. Even in the...
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[Full Fucking Redux] Baddest Motherfuckers Ever- Benny "I Live In a Fucking...
When I first penned this article, there was little in the way of info on Benny Podda, and what I could find seemed to be as much fiction as fact. Turns out, however, that my sole source for...
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The "Perfect Gym" Is All In Your Head
Not too far off from my setup in Beijing.As I staggered the fifteen steps from my toilet shower to my desk, sweating like a pedophile in an elementary school bathroom, desperate to find another roll of...
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Feast Or Famine Diet, Part 2- Welcome To The Suck
Miss the intro to this series? Yeah, it's been awhile. Go here for a refresher.The story of a phoenix rising from the ashes is iconic and timeless. It's an archetype that transcends time and place...
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Feast, Famine, And Ferocity Diet, Part 3- And Now We FEAST
"Feasting, loosely defined as the public consumption of an elaborate meal often accompanied by entertainment, is a feature of most ancient and modern societies. Hayden and Villeneuve recently defined...
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How Can You Save Me If You Can't Save Yourselves? Part One: 'Evidence-Based'...
"Vexation is the attitude of the individual as intelligence towards the check imposed upon repressing the violence of will- in other words, by virtue; or by keeping the intelligence from dwelling upon...
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How Can You Save Me If You Can't Save Yourselves? Part 2.
In the first part of this bit of wild-eyed polemic, I explained that the evidence-based coaches in the strength training community are, almost to a person, liars who resemble in many ways the idiots...
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Maurice Jones- Pre-Steroid Era Badass who was Still Curling the 50s at 85...
We've all said that so-and-so looks good "for their age." It's honestly a pretty shitty thing to say, especially when most people look like shit at any age. Even taking that into account, it's rare...
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Rather Important Announcement: It's Been a Decade, So I'm Changing Shit Up
After ten years, I will admit I am bored as shit with this site. I'm bored of the name, bored of the retro Blogger shit (though for writing it is vastly preferable to WordPress), and in mind to do...
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Baddest Motherfuckers Ever- Chet "I Beat Arnold Then Said Fuck Bodybuilding"...
As I've pointed out, Arnold Schwarzenegger was mostly a paper tiger as a Mr. Olympia, but even as such, defeating him has to say something about one's pedigree as everyone on Earth seems to have lined...
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The End Draws Nigh...
The site is nearing completion over at Plague of Strength, so expect a redirect from this site as of this weekend. The first article to drop looks like it'll hit this weekend and will be on pullups,...
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