October 16

Educate Yourself and Don't Be That Guy

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This guy did NOT get jacked by using a fucking bosu ballBosu balls are evil! Wobble boards will injure you! Balance discs will rape your mother, steal your stereo, and take the last Coke Zero out of the fridge, the bastards. All right, not really. But these "functional" tools may do you more harm than good. (In fact, there's a good chance that... read more

October 13

Genetics, Training, and BFS Excerpt

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2008(These were taken in October, 2008.) I've received quite a few emails recently asking what, exactly, I do. After you check out the excerpt from Built for Show, make sure to scroll down for an explanation and to see a way more embarrassing photo of me from 2004. Excerpted from Chapter... read more

October 06

The Jason Lengstorf Experiment

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He looks happy, doesn't he?You probably know him as my good friend and the web-geek who built this site. I've been friends with Jason for well over a decade and he's always been kinda chunky. (Friends are allowed to call each other fat motherfuckers or arrogant pricks, by the way. We do that a lot... read more

October 02

Random Acts #1

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That's my angry face - We snapped a few training pictures of box-squat day. Honestly, I've never given box-squats their props and haven't ever included them in my training. Big mistake. Mike Robertson fixed that right up and thanks to him my entire posterior chain—especially my glutes—have never felt better. (Go ahead and read... read more

September 16

Can I Use Your Curl Rack for Squats?

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Death to the Foam Roller!I’m on week five of my Mike Robertson approved training program and I wanted to share a few random notes: - Front squats to a box suck my left nut. They’re horrible. I can’t use an ego-gratifying amount of weight; I feel like I’m strangling myself; my range... read more

September 08

Melding the End and the Beginning

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My weekly mealsIf you're like the majority of the United States, you either spent the better half of Sunday afternoon watching football while drinking beer and/or dreading the Monday ahead. Whatever you did, I'm willing to bet you were generally a lazy bastard. I know I was. (But more on that in... read more