Happy Birthday Evan Johnson

Happy Birthday, and great job on the 535 squat.  Evan has made great strides this summer with a 500+ deadlift and squat, as well as great improvement in snatch, clean and push press.  Evan is an Arch Bishop Alter High School Grad, and is playing football at Brown University in the Fall.

Understanding your blood test results

I just found this very interesting site for all of those that have had blood work done, and are trying to understand the results.

http://www.amarillomed.com/howto.htm

Keeping a diet journal/diary can be a powerful tool

check out this article about the power of writing it down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/hl_nm/diet_diary_dc

Work Harder To Succeed.

Hard work works

For about the nine hundredth time I recently read an article about a new top secret rep scheme that is guaranteed to increase your lifts 600%.  The truth of the matter is that there are some simple truths to fitness and athletic performance, and they are as follows:

1.  everything works for a while.  Everything will improve your performance for some period of time, then you will adapt to it

2. Hard work beats all.  If the exercise is hard, brutally hard, you are going to improve.  Pushing the stimulus boundaries of your body, will make it change and improve

3.  If you aren't a little scared of the program, write a new one.  This one follows the one above, if you go into your workouts calm and collected, and you don't have to convince yourself you really should be doing this, it isn't hard enough to make changes in your body or how it moves.

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