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Strength – It’s Good.

by Fred Hahn on November 10, 2011

I won’t say too much about this paper other than to say “Read it.”
Comments are appreciated!

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How, Not How Much

by Fred Hahn on October 23, 2011

When it comes to exercise, how you do it matters more than how much you do. In fact, if exercise is performed at a very low level of intensity, you’re not going to get much benefit out of it no matter how much of it you do do. Walking is a good example of [...]

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Physical Strength Helps Financial Strength

October 15, 2011

Being strong physically helps you to be strong financially.
There’s a confidence that comes with the territory of improving your physical strength. You feel younger. You walk taller. You move more easily and with more grace. It puts a glint in your eye.
And people notice.
And all it takes is just 15 – [...]

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Accentuate the Positive as well as The Negative

September 29, 2011

When you lift weights, there are two things you have to do:
1. Lift the weights up (a.k.a the positive)
2. Lower the weights back down (a.k.a the negative)
The chart above is what we use at Serious Strength to give clients a basic idea of how to perform a repetition when exercising. The repetition is the nucleus, [...]

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Mark Sisson’s Exercise Errors

August 13, 2011

Mark Sisson has become a very popular paleo promoter and I like a lot of what he has to say. His book is pretty good and I hate him for all the hair he has on his head. I wish it were true that going paleo was good for hair re-growth but its not.
As [...]

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Weight Lifting is for You!

July 13, 2011

The great body builders of yesteryear like Boyer Coe, Mike Mentzer, Arnold, Frank Zane, Robbie Robinson, Chris Dickerson, etc. were all hardcore weight lifters. But they were also hardcore drug users.
Many suggest that these people were physique icons and the pinnacle of the male physique. I strongly disagree. They certainly were not what one would [...]

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Strength, Speed and Athletic Wisdom

June 28, 2011

Explosive Weight Training Exercises — powered by ehow
In this video you’ll see a trainer coaching a young man in an exercise that, given the way the kid is doing it, potentially presents very high forces to his joints and other structures and provides next to no meaningful load to his muscles. The weight the boy [...]

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Exercising with Arthritis

April 21, 2011

(This is what I am desperately trying to avoid!)
As many of you know, my knees are shot. Years of Karate, jogging, and growing up with bowed legs have left me with crippling medial compartment knee arthritis. I’m also certain that all the grains [...]

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Are Your Weights Heavy Enough?

April 15, 2011

They should be. Here’s why.
A bunch of years ago, I erred in the weight load I gave to a client by a lot. Like a real lot. I remember he said “Jesus Fred – what the hell did you give me here!” Thinking the weight was correct I said “I raised the weight five [...]

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Weakness is Sublime

April 15, 2011

It is very common for me to hear the following statement after a client completes an exercise to failure:
“Oh! I felt so weak in that exercise!”

“You’re welcome.” is my usual response.
Feeling weak as a kitten after completing an exercise is exactly what you want. It’s how you’re supposed to feel. It means you’ve [...]

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