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Exploding the Myths:
Revealing the Truth About What it Takes to Build and Maintain a Powerful, Disease-Free Heart

Al Sears, M.D.

Oct 04, 2004 05:56 PM

For decades, we?ve worked to follow the advice of the American Heart Association for heart health. We?ve sacrificed taste, given up simple pleasures, pounded out the mile [...]

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Climbing Mountains and Lifting Kettlebells in Chile

Kenneth Lein

Sep 13, 2004 02:05 PM

I just made my first Kettlebells!!! 1, 1.5, and 2 poods. But I will come to this point later. First I will share how I came to this extreme training. Like everything, lif [...]

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Grip Nation

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Jim "Smitty" Smith

Sep 13, 2004 01:50 PM

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Deadlifting on the Rise

Louie Simmons

Aug 16, 2004 05:28 PM

Finally, after many years, it seems the deadlift is on the rise. In New Orleans in September 2002. I was lucky to witness not one but two 900+ deadlifts, by Gary Frank an [...]

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The Three Muscle Energy Systems and How to Train Them

Part 1 of 4

Christine M. Uberti, CSCS, RKC

Aug 16, 2004 04:12 PM

Our muscles have different biochemical requirements according to our chosen activities. The energy we get to jerk a couple of 2 poods, wrestle, or XC ski comes from enti [...]

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Combat Calisthenics

Tony Blauer

Jul 22, 2004 01:52 PM

I've been training and teaching martial arts & combatives since 1967. During a career that has now spanned 30+ years as student, athlete, instructor and coach, I've been [...]

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Talking Training with Old-Time Strongmen

Kurt J. Wilkens, RKC

Jul 22, 2004 01:07 PM

Let us take a little time out of our busy schedules to just relax. Let us put aside for a moment all of our hard work and harder training and enjoy a few minutes to ours [...]

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Why the "Bottoms Up Press" Is Good For You

James "Lemon" Boelter

Jul 22, 2004 12:59 PM

For those of you unfamiliar with it, the BUP ("Bottoms Up Press") is the version of the kettlebell military press done with the kettlebell held upside down. The girevik u [...]

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The Purposeful Primitive Progressive Pulls

Raw and retro, the only thing progressive about this primitive routine is the poundage

Marty Gallagher

Jun 22, 2004 03:05 PM

I?ve never encountered any form or mode of exercise that equals the sheer muscle-building, strength-infusing capacity of compound, multi-joint progressive resistance move [...]

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How to Power through a Kettlebell Military Press Plateau with ‘The Rack’!

George ‘Comrade Yuri’ Nolly, RKC

Jun 22, 2004 01:46 PM

If you've hit a plateau in your pressing movements and need to break out of your rut, you might want to try The Rack. During the Spanish Inquisition, the rack was a tort [...]

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