World's Strongest Librarian

Catching Up On WSL: June 15-June 20

It was another great week on World’s Strongest Librarian. Here were some of the highlights for anyone just getting here: Forest Vance gave us The Pre Kettlebell Training Checklist I talked about Three Things I Learned At The RKC Certification The launch of a new series: How To Have Tourette’s Some nutrition and health tips [...]

June 20, 2009 READ MORE →

Three Health Tips I Learned From Video Games

Today’s video games are too complex, too lengthy, and require you to adopt a sedentary lifestyle that is the opposite of healthy. But retro video games–think Super Nintendo back through Atari–are wonderful sources of tips and wisdom for anyone interested in health, muscle building, strength, and symmetry. If you really want results, you have to [...]

June 19, 2009 READ MORE →

The Pre-Kettlebell Training Checklist

This is a guest post from Forest Vance, RKC. Forest is one of the most gigantic men I’ve ever met. He also helped me find the perfect hamburger in Minneapolis: the Juicy Nookie. He’s going to talk today about one of the most important things about kettlebell training: getting ready. I was as guilty as [...]

June 18, 2009 READ MORE →

New Series: How To Have Tourette’s

I have mentioned Tourette’s Syndrome often enough that several readers have asked me to elaborate a bit on this absurd disorder of mine. Writing about something painful can be dangerous: I either wind up sounding pitiful or self-congratulatory. This series will be my attempt at discovering whether I’ve put enough distance between myself and my [...]

June 17, 2009 READ MORE →

Book Review: American Psycho

This is another of ALA’s most frequently challenged books, and this is the first book I encountered where I sympathized with the challengers. This doesn’t mean that I would support the banning of this book–it just means that I think it’s a vile piece of writing and the reasons for challenging the book are clear-cut [...]

June 16, 2009 READ MORE →

Three Things I Learned At The RKC Certification

It was a wonderful, brutal weekend at the Russian Kettlebell Certification in St. Paul. I learned way too much to about coherently in a blog post, so some of these lessons will be dribbling out over the rest of the year on World’s Strongest Librarian. For now: here are three things I learned that have [...]

June 15, 2009 READ MORE →

Lesssons From The Airport – Enough With The Entitlement

Yesterday, en route to my beloved RKC weekend, I was in the airport watching the clock, realizing just how sore my knees were about to get. Airplanes are not made for 6’8″ lovable losers. But wait! There was a commotion amongst the passengers! A lady was screaming her head off–and I mean shrieking like someone [...]

June 12, 2009 READ MORE →

World’s Strongest Librarian on Problogger

Hi everyone. Just a quick update. I’m thrilled to say that World’s Strongest Librarian author Josh Hanagarne (me) has a guest post on Problogger today. The post is about my initial efforts to gather strength interviews for the Crazy Switch book to be released later this year. Go take a look! This has brought a [...]

June 10, 2009 READ MORE →

Reasons To Love Kettlebells: The Bond

I get asked every day what I am training for. “For me.” “Why?” “Because I can. Because I don’t know how not to. Because I need it.” “But for what event? Is there a competition?” “Just me. It’s just for me.”

June 10, 2009 READ MORE →

10 Essential Strength Books: Part 6 – Brother Iron, Sister Steel

I’ve been trying to review this book since the first week World’s Strongest Librarian went live. It was going to be number one in the series. Then number two. I kept chickening out and picking other books.The truth is: this book means more to me than I know how to say. I haven’t been ready [...]

June 9, 2009 READ MORE →