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Columbu's Back Training - Gene Mozee
Franco Columbu is one of the most amazing bodybuilders the sport has ever seen. Not only is he the best-built short man of all time -- the only man under 5'5" ever to win the Mr. Olympia -- but he won...
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Training on the Olympic Lifts, Part Three - Jim Halliday
Article Courtesy of Liam Tweed. The Two Hands Snatch is probably the most important lift in this whole series, from every angle. To perform it correctly gives the satisfaction that comes from doing...
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MA Strength - Chinese Weightlifting Technique & Mastery (2018)
https://store.chineseweightlifting.com/equipment/media/chinese-weightlifting-book/312 pages. TABLE OF CONTENTSLIST OF TABLES 10LIST OF FIGURES 12Introduction 16Chapter 1: History and Development of...
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Forced Reps, Form and Cheating - Bob Green
"Comrades, let's do morning exercises!" (1952)"I wanna get big!" the young man exuded within seconds of sitting down in front of my desk When folks came into my gym I always asked them, naturally, what...
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Training on the Olympic Lifts, Part Four - Jim Halliday
Article Courtesy of Liam Tweed.When doing the assistance exercises scheduled in this series it is not in your interest to make them easier. You are not trying to establish a high standard of poundages,...
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Thigh Training - Reg Park (1955)
Thanks to Liam Tweed! Oops. For the majority, the thighs are a relatively easy section of the body to develop, but whilst it will mainly interest those of you who find thigh development difficult this...
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Make It Harder, Not Easier - Bill Starr
At some point in your strength program you have to become more aggressive and lean on the top-end numbers. If you continue to train with comfortable poundages for too long, you'll get lazy and your...
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365 Days of Brutality - Jamie Lewis
https://www.chaosandpain.com/365-days-of-brutality-e-book/You gotta get this book.I shit you not. GET IT! True strength is feared, reviled, marginalized, and demonized. Self-reliance is lambasted as...
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Harder, Not Easier - Bill Starr
Article Courtesy of Liam Tweed. Harder, Not EasierBetween Coach Starr's nudist colony ab article and the previous "harder" one there's probably a joke here that could be made. About something. I'm...
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Combining Bodybuilding and Olympic Lifting, Part One - Charles Coster (1953)
Originally Published in This Issue (July 1953) Rare! Thanks to LIAM TWEED.An increasing number of people are becoming interested in the possibilities of combined Olympic training and body-building...
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Mass Insanity - C.S. Sloan
Article Courtesy of Liam Tweed. https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Strength-Workouts-Maximizing-Power/dp/1885219806C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength:Essays on Lifting, Zen Combat, Philosophy, Asian Cinema,...
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Hook Dreams - Wade Johnson
Many years ago when I started powerlifting, I never thought about my grip in the deadlift. I always had great grip strength and never lost a pull due to a failing grip. However, as the years rolled...
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Chins vs Pulldowns
The inclusion of some form of chins, lat pulldowns, or both, is considered de rigueur for any properly designing bodybuilding back workout. The usual rationale is twofold. The primary benefit is often...
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Harder, Not Easier - Bill Starr
Article Courtesy of Liam Tweed. B.A.W.L.A RecordsSeptember 1st, 1930.Courtesy of Michael Murphy Click to ENLARGE.The current trend in strength training and the fitness world is to come up with some...
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Asymmetric Training - Brian Mangravite
Some friends of mine recently started work on an addition to their house. The architect said they needed some steel support beams. I was hanging around the day the guy came to drop off this steel, so,...
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The Squat: The First 25 Years - Randall Strossen
“You should wake up each day with the sense of just having been born and all that matters are the decisions you are going to make that day.” - J.C. HiseJoseph Curtis HiseFor a truly in depth look at...
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Dead-On Size and Strength - Bill Starr
Time, eh . . . Days crawl by while the years fly away.No worries here AT ALL about that.Here's two photos of yer humble blog author . . .The first is around the time I started this site-thing, around...
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Whether it's punching, pushing or shoving, supporting our bodies for prolonged periods, or pushing downwards, the triceps are of paramount importance in day-to-day functioning. Or, put another way . ....
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Training on the Olympic Lifts, Part Five- Jim Halliday
Chuck SipesCourtesy of Liam Tweed. The Clean & Jerk is perhaps the lift that holds most attraction for the newcomer. It is the lift on which the most poundage can be elevated, and it is a natural...
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An Easy Way to Bulk Up - Mike Brown
There are only two basic factors involved in gaining muscular bodyweight. Those two factors are food absorption and heavy exercise with weights. The theory is that if your body doesn't have problems,...
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