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Book Review – The Complete Keys to Progress by John McCallum

John McCallum wrote for Strength and Health magazine from 1965 to 1972. His series was called Keys to Progress. Ironmind later, in the early 90s, I believe, issued a compilation of McCallum’s strength training and bodybuilding essays in the book The Complete Keys to Progress. I had been hearing about this book for years but [...]

December 3, 2010 READ MORE →

Book Review: Muscle Logic

I read Charles Staley’s book Muscle Logic: Escalating Density Training Changes The Rules For Maximum-Impact Weight Training a couple of years ago when I was in my heyday of Russian kettlebell zealotry. Pavel Tsatsouline had a blurb on cover of Staley’s work, so I grabbed it at the library and took it home. The sort [...]

October 8, 2010 READ MORE →

Life Lessons From Beyond Brawn

I have been looking back over some of my old posts. My attitude has changed greatly about some things I wrote as little as a year ago. In other cases it has stayed the same or been reinforced. One of the series I knew I would write from the almost-beginning of the blog was the [...]

August 10, 2010 READ MORE →

5 Flexeriffic (and super-awesome) Muscle Movies

Bodybuilders and action heroes. Who can stand against their bulging biceps, veined quads, and dominating vascularity? Especially when they’re equipped with a million machine guns, camouflage, and the perfect script. You? Please. Me? Please. Well, as these fellows proved, no amount of aliens, South American thugs, or dashes-of-lye-in-the-eye can hold a candle to the no [...]

August 1, 2010 READ MORE →

The Best Way To Build Muscle?

All through my younger days, I wanted so badly for there to be magic formula or pill that would help me sprout muscles in an instant. I had this vision of myself swaggering into choir class–as if anyone could swagger into choir!–with my arms and legs bursting from my clothes. Instead I played a lot [...]

July 30, 2010 READ MORE →

Build Muscle: A Tale Of Two Giant Men And A Look At Appearances

I have seen two truly gigantic men in my life. Men that would be right at home in the pages of Muscle and Fitness. One was in the Denver airport, exiting the plane that we would board a few minutes later. The other was in the library, about a year ago. Both airport-man and library-man [...]

July 20, 2010 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 →

10 Essential Strength Books: Part 1…Beyond Brawn

In this series, I’ll be exploring the ten books that have had the most impact on my training, whether dealing with the actual methods I’ve come to use, or the philosophy behind my own training. Hundreds of thousands of valuable pages have been written on these subjects. This series is my love letter to my [...]

April 16, 2009 READ MORE →