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“Live every day like it’s Shark Week.”

Look, I don’t have much time to post right now, so lets get some basic stuff taken care of.

  • If you are going to send me a friend request on Facebook, and are a guy,  give me the courtesy of identifying your purpose of doing so. In other words, I don’t like getting friend requests from creepy dudes that live in Montana.
  • Edit: This did not say “every dude on here needs to send me a friend request today”.
  • If you are a girl, you have the green light. Please.
  • The reason that whenever you type a single right quote mark (’) into the comments and it turns into a double quote mark is because there is some kind of coding error on our server. We called the people that run it, and they are unable to do anything about it. Some people have offered to look at the issue, but we’re just living with it for now.
  • If you want to type a single right quote into the comments section, then you can paste “’” without the quotes and space. That whole text sequence is going to be the HTML code for the ’.
  • Lastly, http://StartingStrength.com has published a couple of articles lately that may be pertinent to your training or knowledge thereof. So far, Mark Rippetoe is the only author, but there will be more articles by VIP’s. Stay tuned. You can read the articles here.

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Daniel is a 19 year-old sophomore at Gonzaga University. He is 5’11″ and 210.  This here is a video of him pulling 525 for a 1RM.


WFAC Fun

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Mark Brown really is crazy

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Zach. Finally an adult male at 210 lbs


If you missed Rippetoe’s interview with Iron Radio, you can find it here.

Rip didn’t have some of his facts straight about some of the lifters here at the WFAC. Zach is one of the guys mentioned in the interview who has had a lot of success since he’s been at the gym. Zach has been training here for 9 weeks, and here are his actual numbers (all lifting numbers are for three sets of five, power cleans are five sets of three):

Body weight: 162 –> 210
Squat: 155 –> 295
Press: 85 –> 125
Deadlift: 225 –> 285
Bench: 165 –> 197
Power Clean: 50 kg –> 70 kg

The program he used was the standard linear progression that is outlined in Starting Strength. Zach eats a lot of food, drinks a lot of milk, and has gone from a guy who is 90’s Small to a guy on a quest to 70’s Big. Oh, and for all of you confused critics, he may have gained 8 pounds of fat, but I doubt it’s that much. Well worth it for the increase in strength, size, and muscle mass.

If you have anybody that has had a lot of success with gaining strength and bodyweight, send it on in.

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Someone wrote in and requested a video of me doing some power cleans. I had meant to film my training today when I power cleaned and jerked 140 kg for five singles, but I forgot. Instead, I filmed the second set of squats I did immediately following the C&J. Notice the Pacifico-style glasses and socks. If you want to send in some videos of you or anybody that you coach lifting, send it on in.