“Exercises like squats, deadlifts, and standing presses place significant training loads on the axial skeleton, pelvis, and hips, and force increases in bone mineral density where the Masters Athlete needs them most.”
― The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
― The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
“Instead of dwindling into an atrophic puddle of sick fat, we can make our ending like a failed last rep at the end of a final workout. Strong, vigorous and useful, to the last.”
― The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
― The Barbell Prescription: Strength Training for Life After 40
“Any man or woman should earn the right for their opinion of you to matter, and those who have, well their opinion should carry a great deal of weight.”
― The Appearance of Power: How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
― The Appearance of Power: How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
“Journalists effectively have the same function as the sales signs in shop windows or the advertising leaflets in our letterboxes. These mediators of information have an incomprehensible desire and capacity to fill people’s consciousness with rubbish that is both trivial and false, while erecting huge walls around serious questions.”
― Can Life Prevail?
― Can Life Prevail?
“So if we’re still supposed to care what people think of us, but we’re also incapable of caring about everyone equally, what’s the solution? The answer is fairly easy, but it gets glossed over or passed by all too often - we’re supposed to care what the right people think of us. This is another mindset shift and one that can often be very difficult to make, especially because it runs so counter to a global culture in which we are constantly being bombarded with anti-tribal messaging. One method I’ve personally implemented to get my mind right on this concept is a basic one - a person has to earn the right for his opinion to matter to me.”
― The Appearance of Power: How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
― The Appearance of Power: How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
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