[17 Pages] ... The loft was used for storage in those days and little else. All of the welding dust would settle up there, coating everything in a fine dust of iron particles. There was no heat on the third floor either. I couldn’t help but think it was perfect......keep reading

[10 Pages] One of the ways in which additional rest could be built into an abbreviated program was a rotation of workouts that St. Louis based lifter Warren Salade latched onto in the mid-to late 1970’s. One of the bigger name lifters wrote a number of articles about this approach a few years later, giving it a scientific name and implying that he had developed this methodology. He did not....keep reading

[5 Pages] Most powerlifters like to read articles about nutrition. They find them interesting, thought provoking, but most commonly, a source of hope. The bulk of research indicates that the majority of people, in fact, the majority of athletes, do not need excessive supplementation if they are eating the foods that provide minimal standard amounts of certain nutrients.

The usual recommendation is that a well-balanced diet will obviate the need to supplement at all. Most lifters do not believe this, and do not wish to believe this....keep reading

[20 minutes, 6 Seconds] Part 1 of The Iron Island Gym Memorial Day Powerlifting Classic held May, 28, 1995....keep reading

[2 Pages ] I hope my comment in the article Curls: Not Just For The Girls was clear: the EZ curl bar (and the one I have out in my garage is an original Iron Man EZ Curl bar made in 1966 or 67 by Warren Tetting) is NOT the best way to work the biceps because the hand is not in full supination but is in fact, a great way to work the...keep reading

[12 Pages] It may seem a bit unusual to begin a monthly column that is dedicated to my perspective on the history of becoming stronger and the sport of powerlifting with notice of a bodybuilder, but I wanted to mark the passing of Dennis Tinerino. I have made it clear that at least until powerlifting became an "official" sport with sanctioned competitions, most Olympic weightlifters, powerlifters, and bodybuilders had numerous similarities in their training....keep reading

[8 Pages] Most muscle magazines present programs that require two to three daily visits to the gym, with the completion of up to thirty sets per session. Others encourage one training session per day, four-to-seven days per week, doing thirty-to-sixty sets. — These things are read and accepted as truth. When the program leaves the typical trainee exhausted, or unable to complete that many sets, he usually feels that he didn’t have the intestinal “stuff” necessary to be a champion. If not that, he rationalized his failure, relative to Mr. Body Beautiful, as his refusal to use anabolic drugs (or as much of a drug as the top winners). The simple truth is that a few gifted men or women can do almost anything in the gym with consistency, and grow beyond the realm of normalcy....keep reading

[2 Pages] I don't use the term core strength, or other bullshit jargon. We're building muscle tissue, period. If one works hard at the basic multi-joint movements that require support of the weight such as overhead movements, squats, deadliftss in any form as examples, their so called core muscles of the low back, obliques, and abs will get plenty of work....keep reading