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Got T2 diabetes? Get strong!

by Fred Hahn on May 16, 2012

In a recent paper on the role of mitochondria and type II diabetes, the researchers conclude that:
Under certain insulin-resistant conditions, reduced oxidative phosphorylation capacity, submaximal ADP-stimulated oxidative phosphorylation and/or content of mitochondria have been observed in insulin-responsive tissues, such as skeletal muscle, liver and heart. Impaired mitochondrial plasticity, that is, response to metabolic regulation, seems [...]

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What Steroids Really Do

by Fred Hahn on March 22, 2012

Anabolic steroids are, unfortunately, used by many athletes and body builders to enhance their muscularity and strength. In professional sports their use is illegal. But they are legal in pro body building.
The drugs have come a long way since their beginning. No one knows for sure when athletes and specifically body builders began using [...]

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5 Minutes of Exercise a Week is Enough

March 8, 2012

I am now hearing in the wind that 30 minutes a week of exercise is too time consuming. I find this hard to believe but hey, some people have full time jobs, 47 kids, second jobs, pets, lawns, nails to polish, cigars to smoke, etc.
I’m here to tell ya’ll that a mere 5 minutes [...]

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Functional Training is Stupid

February 25, 2012

Actually, it’s worse than stupid, it’s really stupid.
Here’s why.
But before I explain, let me say that I didn’t say that trainers who teach functional training are stupid. I also didn’t say that people who engage in functional training are stupid.
I said, functional training is stupid. And it’s dangerous. And needless, worthless, etc. [...]

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Strength – It’s Good.

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

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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