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Posterior Round-Up: Part 1
Remember that time you said “Man, I wish my back was weaker?” Yeah, I didn’t think so. This is the first of a two-part series by Jacob Tsypkin on effective movements for training the posterior chain....
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PR Friday, 15 Feb 2013
How was your Valentine’s Day? Did you eat several pounds of medium-rare steak? If not, get off the computer and fire up the grill. If so, please continue. I had a T-Bone and a Strip, and they were both...
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Ryan Carrillo is 70sBig
I first joined this site as an enthusiastic reader, eventually started contributing as an occasional meet-reporter or recipe-guy, and now I serve as ze Editor. In my time with this site, I’ve been...
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Posterior Round-Up: Part 2
As promised, here’s the second article by Jacob Tsypkin about building up your backside. This one is specifically targeted towards weightlifters, but every general trainee can learn a lot about a...
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PR Friday, 22 Feb 2013
It’s PR Friday! The new phone book’s here! We started off the week strong, with a write-up on Ryan Carrillo, his quest to compete at the IPF Bench Press World Championships, and a quick interview . For...
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The Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnold is here!
It’s finally here – this is the week of the Arnold Sports Festival, which runs this Thursday to Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, and is so massively awesome, it might make you shit your pants. You’ve been...
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Meet the Man Who Squats 905…Raw
Over the weekend, a video quickly started spreading amongst the powerlifters of the world. Everyone stared in disbelief as they watched…questioning at first, but finally settling into simple awe. This...
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Watch the Arnold. Do it! Do it noooow!
Note: This week’s posting schedule for the site got a little thrown off because I took the opportunity to interview Ray Williams and decided to post it immediately. It turns out that it was pretty...
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PR Friday, 1 Mar 2013
It’s PR Friday. It’s been a great week on the site. I’ll update more later, after I watch our guys at the Arnold Powerlifting this afternoon. The big guys lift at 2pm Eastern Time. Watch it live (since...
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Arnold Recap – Weightlifting
Well, the weekend of the Arnold is over. Sadly, I did not attend this year, but I was constantly in contact with various field reporters and friends who were on-site, and I’m already looking forward to...
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Tsypkin Thursdays #1
Jacob Tsypkin has been fielding questions on our facebook page about weightlifting/crossfit/training/coffee/beardliness, and will compile 3-4 of them weekly for your reading pleasure. You’re welcome....
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PR Friday, 8 Mar 2013
It’s PR Friday! Here’s some media from last week’s Arnold NAPF Raw Challenge to get you inspired over the weekend. AC’s log is consistently the most popular on the site. This comes as no surprise once...
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Some Truths About CrossFit and Weightlifting
Did you see the CF Open 13.1 WOD? There were a lot of snatches, to say the least. Jacob Tsypkin wrote this article not to piss you off (though it might), but to start a discussion about how CrossFit is...
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Interview with Mike Jenkins
During the Arnold Sports Festival Mike Jenkins was kind enough to let me interview him in the Rogue booth. Unfortunately, the two minute interview we did had too much background noise. When I told him...
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Tsypkin Thursdays #2
Matt F asks, “How do you treat conditioning for lifters or people generally more interested in lifting?” Minimal. Depending on the case, I would stick to 2-3 days a week at most, with no more than one...
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PR Friday, 15 Mar 2013
This week in 70sBigVille, we discussed how, like it or not, CrossFit is impacting the strength world in big ways. Not only are there a million more ladies wearing Lulu tights, there’s also a huge spike...
View ArticleReader Submission: Olpainless
Olpainless, one of our faithful readers and Justin’s good friends, submitted this introduction article to me awhile ago, and I apologize for the delay in publishing it. I initially wanted some media to...
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Tsypkin Thursdays #3
Tom O asks, “I have calf pain when squatting ass-to-grass, whether back, front, or overhead. Any ideas what this could be/what I can do about it?” Could be quite a few things. I’d start with soft...
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70’s Big Attitude
Aaron is a PJ, or pararescue jumper, as well as a general badass. He’s already written a couple inspiring articles for us (Excuses? No. and Lessons From Lifting). In this one, perhaps his best yet, he...
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Tsypkin Thursdays #4
David C asks, “If you were going to hire/follow one of the bigger CrossFit coaches out there to help you prepare for the Open, Regionals, and Games, who would you choose?” Rudy Nielsen of Outlaw. In...
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