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- The Plague of Strength Ultimate Pump-Up Book List
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- Westside Connection: The Ultimate Guide to the Methods of the Original (and Superior) Westside Barbell
- Zen Monk or Berserker: Which is Better to Emulate in the Gym?
- On Belts, the Bent Press, and the Badassery of Old Timey Strongmen
- The Feast, Famine, and Ferocity Diet is Now Updated and Available as an E-Book!
- In Which I Try to Explain to Instagram Why They’re So Goddamn Wrong About the Purportedly Magical Properties of “non-GMO” and Pesticide-Free Food
- Are Tom Platz and Marvin Eder Powerlifting’s Unsung GOATs?
- In the 1990s, Christy Martin Proved Women Fighters Can Be Even More Brutally Entertaining Than Men
- In the 1950s There Were Black Professional Wrestling Champions Who Made The Rock Look Small
- Plague of Strength’s Bite-Size History Is Now On Sale!
- (Working Draft)Fustigation Fury X Female Fustigators: Swashbuckling Courtesan Lola Montez and the “Frenzy of Frisco” Adah Menken- the Chicks Who Invented the Role of Action “Movie” Star in the 19th Century Would Merk You IRL (Part 3)
- PEDs and Lifting Go Together Like Cocaine and Waffles: Part 2: Cannabis is a Hell of a Drug
- PEDs and Lifting Go Together Like Cocaine and Waffles, and We’ve Been Combining Them at Least as Long as We’ve Combined Wheels and Axles, Part 1
- New Podcast is Up, and There’s Even Video!
- Loneliness Will Kill You… Or Make You Kill Yourself
- Make 2022 the Most Lit Year Ever by Setting It to the Dopest of Soundtracks
- New Podcast Episode on The Strength Connection- The Wild and Wooly History of Supplements and PEDs, and Why They’re the Reason We Lift
- I’ll Be the Last One Standing… Because I Train My Forearms
- Quickie History: You Know You’re Fucking Good When People Invent Rules to Keep You From Competing
- Lifter Snapshot: The World’s Greatest Neurologist, Oliver Sacks, Was Also California’s State Champ in the Squat (and a Member of the OG Westside Barbell Club)
- Lifter Snapshot: Bodybuilding Strongman Inventor Walter Marcyan, Creator of Bruce Lee’s Favorite Piece of Equipment
- Lifter Snapshot: Dan Kolov, Badass Bulgarian Wrestler
- Lifter Snapshot: Lisa Lyon, the First Official Winner of the Women’s Bodybuilding Contest and Second Female Bodybuilder in Playboy
- Lifter Snapshot: Dan Hodge, Human Juicemaster and Arguably America’s Greatest Wrestler
- Medical Fundraiser for My Main Man Mao
- New Podcast Episode! The Strength Connection: GOATs, History, Grip Strength and Longevity, and a Ton of Other Shit
- Lifter Profile X Fustigation Fury: Pre-Television Era Professional Wrestler Abe Coleman Would Have Been the Perfect Choice for Wolverine in the MCU
- Lifter Snapshot: August Johnson, the Ripped-and-Ready Strongest-Man-On-Earth-Not-Named-Louis-Cyr About Whom You Never Heard Because of Cyr’s Fat Ass
- Lifter Profile: Ultra-Ripped 1955 Mr. America Steve Kilsanin
- Lifter Profile: Ronald Walker- The Zyzz of Olympic Weightlifters Was Fucking STRONG
- For the Last Time, Old Time Lifters Didn’t Follow a Program or Diet (And They’d Mock You for Doing Either)
- Lifter Profile: Joe Nordquest, the Natty Adaptive Athlete Who Outlifted Everyone on Everything
- The Origin of the Myth of Being Musclebound Lies With the People Who Popularized Lifting in the First Place
- Lifter Profile: Raymond Cazeaux, a Dastardly Good-Looking Chap Who Lost to Hack at Least Once
- Lifter Profile: Paul Robeson, NFL Player, Lawyer, and Entertainer, Once Stopped an Active Firefight in War By Singing
- Lifter Profile: Miss La La, the 19th Century’s Greatest Aerialist and Lightweight Strongwoman was an Awesome, Batshit Crazy Dark-Skinned Prussian Woman
- Lifter Profile: Guido Meyer, Russia’s First Heavyweight Lifting and Boxing Champ, Was the Unknown Teammate of George Hackenschmidt, George Lurich, Ivan Poddubny, Ivan Zaikin, and Peter Krylov
- Lifter Profile: Jules Leotard, Inventor of the Leotard and Crazy-As-Fuck Trapeze Artist Who Died Badly Because He Was an Anti-Vaxxer
- Quickie History X Fustigation Fury: The Early Soviets Had Their Own Mike Tyson, and His Name Was Alexey Ankudinov
- Lifter Profile: Mike Guiblio, the Mob Enforcer with 23″ Pre-Synthol Arms
- It’s Time You People Knew That a Lifting “Program” Cannot Be “Programmed”- AKA You’re Thinking of the Wrong “Program”
- Quickie History X Fustigation Fury: An Early Mixed Rules Fight Between English and French Boxing Ends With a Figurative and Literal Kick to the Balls for the English
- Lifter Profile: the Amazingly Named Leona Dare, Civil War Era Trapeze Artist and Strongwoman
- Lifter Profile: Launceton Elliott, the First Olympic Gold Medalist in Weightlifting
- As it Turns Out, the “Arnold Schwarzenegger” of Bodybuilding is Actually 1954 Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay
- Without Eva Tanguay, We Might Not Have Modern Lifting Culture… But She Didn’t Lift and Had Zero Fucks to Give About the Opinions of the Masses
- Lifter Snapshot: Eddie Giuliani, 70’s Giant Killer and Arnold’s 165lb Training Partner
- John Grimek and Steve Stanko Invented the Iconic Predator Pose (and Hooked You Up With a Ridiculous Bicep Workout)
- Russia’s First Two Great Lifters Killed Their Careers With a Single Fistfight (Against Each Other)
- Anette Busch- Estonian Strongwoman and the First Non-Japanese Female Sumo Wrestler
- Lifter Snapshot: Jim Haislop, Arguably the Prettiest Bodybuilder to Ever Live and His Utterly Unique Approach to Training for Symmetry
- Lifter Snapshot: Alexandre Maspoli, Early Weightlifting Phenomenon and Epic Sculptor
- Lifter Snapshot: Ivan Zaikin, George Hackenschmidt’s and George Lurich’s Mostly Unknown Third Lifting Partner
- Lifter Snapshot: the Baillargeon Brothers, Forgotten Lumberjack-Lifter-Wrestlers of the Vaudeville Era.
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- Turns Out Chicks Dressed Sluttier in the Gym 100 Years Ago Than They Do Now
- Did Someone Ask if There Were Gyms on Steam-Powered Cruise Ships 100 Years Ago?
- Quickie History X Fustigation Fury: Turkish Oil Wrestling, Its First Black Champion in 600+ Years, and One of It’s Greatest Champions is Also One the Strength World’s Most Shocking Unknowns
- Quickie History: Gun Control in Early America
- Remember That You Effectively Respawn Every Day in Call of Duty: Game of Life and Other Shit I Wish I Knew At 20
- A Globular History of Globular Weights
- Quickie History: Tyra Johansson and the Founding of Eleiko Barbell
- New Podcast Guest Appearance: Tara and I Guest on “Sessions With Mary Jane”!
- Lifter Spotlight: Arthur Dandurand, Canada’s First Champion Strongman
- Quickie History: Robert Johnson is Proof That Metal (and Especially the Extreme Stuff) is Blues-Derived, Not Rock
- Lifter Snapshot: Charles Vansittart, “the Man with the Iron Grip”
- Lifter Spotlight: Arthur Flint- The Most Famous Doctor in the US and (Arguably) the Second-Strongest Man in America
- Imagine Your Life Today, But Without Internal Combustion or Electricity, and You Are Imagining Life in Northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan 4500 Years Ago
- Quickie History: Caligula Had Ships Built That Out-Engineered Everything Until the 19th Century
- Metal as an Allegory for Life, In One Graphic
- Baddest Motherfuckers Ever (DRAFT): Wesley “Negro Hercules” Williams- First Black Officer in the FDNY, Best Built Man in America, and Unofficial Strongest Man in the World
- Breakthrough Secrets Podcast: The History of Kettlebells
- News! I Have News!
- Lifter Snapshot: Gary “The Welsh Dragon” Taylor
- Music to Punch People To: My Spotify Lifting Playlist
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- Baddest Motherfuckers Ever- Pillow: The Insanely Shredded She-Beast of Bodybuilding and Nerdlesque
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