When I was a 5th year teacher I picked up the local paper, The Star Ledger, and checked the classified ads. I wanted to see who was selling used gym equipment. Back then, there was nothing fancy for sale. It was barbells, dumbbells and benches. No Hammer Strength. No Cybex. No fancy anything. Just weights. The ads never had photos so you had to imagine and hoped the words describing the equipment were not full of shyt. Remember, this was 20+ years ago and all you had was a sentence or two … [Read more...]
STRONG Life Insider: The Development of Muscular Bulk & Power
From Anthony Ditillo's Book, The Development of Muscular Bulk and Power There is something about bulk and power training that invades your very soul. It is extremely hard to put into words. The exercise movements themselves are quite simple to perform. The routines one must utilize in order to gain rapidly that much sought after strength are not especially interesting or dynamic in appearance. All in all, powerlifting and bulk training is a rather mechanical robot like procedure, which is … [Read more...]