There is no doubt that the surge in adolescent obesity is real. As a father of two wonderful young lasses, I am in their school yards virtually everyday and see it first hand. I will say however that, at least in New York City, most kids appear to be of normal body weight. The truly obese kids - the ones who need immediate care - are rare.
As a child growing up in Queens, NYC, I was made fun of from time to time for several reasons - for being Jewish, for being red-headed, for being painfully skinny, for having the name Fred, and for being severely bow-legged. "Where's your horse red Fred Hahn?!" the kids would tease.
Bacon cups! BACON CUPS!!
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The above article titled Muscular Contraction with Measured Movement is from a March 1962 issue of Strength and Health magazine. The article was written by the late Bob Hoffman, founder of the infamous York Barbell Company. The men and women who made up the York company and the enthusiasts who followed their regimens were and still are considered among the "heart and soul" of modern body building and athletics.
In my last post I mentioned how important it was to keep track of your training progress. I thought I'd take a little time to describe how we do this at Serious Strength.
You hear and read a lot about how good it is for diabetics to be physically active because it helps regulate blood sugar. And it does.
As requested by one of my subscribers, here is my list of the top 10 books on strength training - in no particular order.
Thus far all goes well on our journey into a healed gut - a bit too well in terms of my body weight. I stepped on the scale yesterday before my Slow Burn workout and weighed in at a trim 162.5 pounds. The week before I weighed in at 167. I thought "WTF?!"
