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Quickie History: True Renaissance Men Looked and Lifted Like Elite Crossfitters
The greatest figures of the Renaissance would also be the greatest figures in your gym if they were alive today, because that is how humans are supposed to roll. Both Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), two…
Fustigation Fury: Training To Fight From The Primeval To The Present- Karate, the “Traditional” Hybrid Style, Part 1- Everything You “Know” About Karate is Wrong
Miss the rest of this series? Here’s some binge-reading for you to do between future sets of potentially home-bound pullups. Pankratists, Pehlwani, and a Couple Less Ancient Fightsport Oddities Catch Wrestling Female Fustigators Part 1 Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery /…
I’m a Bad Motherfucker, Not a Fucking Role Model, the Conclusion (Harold Poole BME Part 4)
Happily enough for everyone involved, a badass reader named Landon Brock got hold of me this week and hit me with a rare article on Harold Poole (which as it turns out the guys from the dope German physical culture…
Fustigation Fury: Training To Fight From The Primeval To The Present- Kickboxing is Weirdly Diverse (Kickboxing, Part 1)
This article began as an attempt to sum up training techniques for kickboxing and boxing, to be followed by an article about karate and tae kwon do. Simple, right? Me being me, however, those two articles turned into at least…
Killer Workouts: “The Canadian Crippler” Chris Benoit
I think it goes without saying at this point that humanity is a colossal dumpster fire, and we have few redeeming qualities as a species beyond the fact that dogs and cats like some of us… and we have a…
The Empire Builder Diet, Part 3 X Fustigation Fury- Lumberjacks, Railroad Men, and Wrestlers
Missed parts one and two? Go here and here. The late 19th Century was filled with enough tales of larger-than-life characters that one could hardly enter a bar or read a newspaper without hearing a zany song about one, or…
Shut the Fuck Up About “Alphas” Already
[It seems I’m not the only person who wants to chokeslam the giants behind the keyboard running around yammering on about alphas and betas and cuckolds. Before we dive into the depths of their idiocy, I’ll just suggest to anyone…
Essential Heretics- William Calvani, the War Yogi
Very few, if any, strength authors touch on the use of the occult, alternative medicinal practices, or non-traditional training methods and styles in the course of their writing. This is to all of our detriment, as whether you want to…
Stemming the Tide of Devolution, Part 2- Fuck Reasonable Expectations
The 1980s were an era of delicious excess. A time in which you might be served a salad bowl of cocaine at a Hollywood party right before stumbling headfirst into a slimy, musclebound, mustachioed orgy being conducted to the soundtrack…
Your Fat Is Unequivocally Your Fault #6- I’ll Accept A Dose Of AIDS Before I’ll Accept Some Asshole’s Fat Being Rammed In My Face
I do not understand how someone could not like this shit. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is a trite statement usually made by boring, smug, unoriginal motherfuckers why are attempting to deflect criticism for their weird choice…