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• December 4, 2011

  2011 NSCA New York Annual State Clinic

  Note:  Better late than never, right?  I’m not sure how completing this review slipped through the cracks, but here it is: Last December I made a weekend trip out of visiting brothers at the University of Delaware and attending the NSCA Mid-Atlantic Regional Clinic.  As chance would have it, I spent the day sitting next…

• November 30, 2011

  @Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show #PleaseFeedTheModels

  Exactly a year ago, I wrote THIS POST about the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.  As you can tell from the title of this post, we’re going to be covering the same topic today. Before we get into that, let me just recommend an article by Tom Furman on T-Nation called 10-Minute Sets.  In the piece…

• November 28, 2011

  Quick Shopping at CVS

  There are plenty of great things to do following an extended weekend of gorging on hearty foods.  Spending Monday fasting wasn’t on the top of my to-do list, but that’s just what I had to do today.  I had scheduled a routine physical with my physician, and they asked me to avoid eating for 8…

• November 27, 2011

  Did You Earn Your Turkey?

  This is America.  When we have holidays we go big, don’t we?  We stuff our faces at Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day barbeques.  Our football tailgates put food drives to shame, we ‘upgrade’ to a larger size at every opportunity.  Thanksgiving isn’t any different, is it?  Between the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet…

• November 23, 2011

  Don’t Get Trapped

  Something happened a few weeks that made me both angry and sad.  The emotions came in waves; I was angry when I first experienced it, and then a few hours later, the anger subsided and I was filled with sadness, a compassion for those who have succumbed to this sad event.  No, it wasn’t men…