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I Gotta Straighten Something Out....

A few days ago a dude in the gym asked me what I meant when I said "people often mistake fatigue for failure," (he was referring to something I had written regarding HIT training). According to him, these were one in the same.

Now, there's no science to support my answer, but I'm pretty sure there is a difference. In my mind, if you're experiencing muscle fatigue through resistance training - no matter how severe - you can still make a muscle contract, or at least resist a negative movement. On the other hand, I define failure  as a point where the impulse from your brain to a particular muscle group is momentarily interrupted resulting in a physical inability to either contract or maintain tension on the muscle.

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How to Tear Your Pec!

robpecI can't imagine someone going out of their way to intentionally tear a pec, but when you consider how often this injury occurs (more than any other muscle tear by far) I sometimes wonder.  Bodybuilders have been known to do some ludicrous things and if you watch how some train, you can't help but think that they're actually out trying to tear something.

There is something venerable about the bench press.  Above all exercises it is the one that seems to define one's strength.  When someone wants to know how much you can lift they are generally referring to your bench.  While squats and deadlifts can yield higher poundages, no one gives a rat's ass about either move.  If you've got a big bench you've got a big image; everyone understands a bench press.  And, if you understand the bench press, you know where the pec tear lives.

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Ignore Your Abs and They'll Go Away!

Sophisticated successful investors will tell you that the first million is the hardest to make.  Thereafter, the money multiplies at a remarkable rate as your level of knowledge and sophistication increase commensurate to your success.  However, if you're not careful, those millions can go right down the drain - you've got to maintain the system or the money goes away.  Finding and keeping your abs follows an amazingly similar sequence.

This odd comparison, though, is wrought with one of life's little jests; money can't get you abs, but abs can get you money, just ask the Calvin Klein guy.  However, building abs is indeed similar to building a fortune, and to many folks, coveted just the same.

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Little Miss Priss Gets Some Tits and Changes More Than Her Profile

As the first glimmer of sunlight filtered through the slit in the mini blinds the buzzing started. It was that plaintive, futile buzzing of a house fly attacking the window pane in its last dying hours.  The fly did the same thing yesterday and all I could wonder is what's taking that fucking thing so long to die? I pulled the pillow over my head and tried to muffle out the noise it was making but it was no use.  I had to put that thing out of my misery if I was going to get any more sleep.

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Remembering Rubber Tendon

Training at Gold's Gym in Venice, California, the "Mecca of bodybuilding" for more than two decades, I have had the opportunity to encounter some of the most ingenious, if not ludicrous, contraptions a welder could assemble. . . operated by some of the wildest beings to ever cinch up a lifting belt.  The allure of these "weight machines" was the promise of being able to hit a muscle group with a previously unattainable angle and resistance range that was sure to increase the mass of said muscle group far better and more safely than standard lifts with free weights.  The more outrageous the concept, the more outlandish it's devotees, their costumes, and accessories.  Many rivaled anything you could find on Halloween night in West Hollywood.

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