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Peer Pressure Is A Good Thing
Matt Foreman
| November 2 2011 |
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Remember when you learned about peer pressure for the first time? You were probably in high school, or maybe junior high. A teacher showed you a video where a juvenile delinquent kid with a motorcycle offers drugs to a little straight-laced kid that looks like a church missionary. As the missionary kid tries the drugs for the first time, Inna Gadda Da Vida starts playing in the background and some kind of kaleidoscope effect starts happening on the screen. Three minutes later......
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Keep Your Eyes On The Road, Your Hands Upon The Wheel
Matt Foreman
| October 25 2011 |
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MULTI-TASKING!! Everybody knows what this is, right? I’m sure you do, because our society is obsessed with it. We’re all expected to be able to juggle several jobs at the same time, making every one perfect and not showing any fatigue or frazzle. That’s the way of the world nowadays. No wonder you can’t watch TV for more than ten minutes anymore without seeing a commercial for anti-anxiety medication. I think I’m going to officially nam......
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Hiring Done
Greg Everett
| October 19 2011 |
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To all of you who applied for the trainer position (or are still sending in resumes), we have filled the two trainer positions we needed to fill. You can still send in your resumes and they will be kept on file for a later date at which we may be looking to hire again. Thanks for your interest.......
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Don't Let My Patella Hit You In The Face
Matt Foreman
| October 18 2011 |
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“Ouch, that looks like it really hurts your knees!”
If you’re a weightlifter, try to make a mental list of how many times you’ve heard somebody say this to you. Irritating, isn’t it? Civilians have always seemed to have this perception that weightlifting is a bone snapping slaughterhouse where it’s just a matter of time before you jump into the bottom position of a clean and your patella will fire out of your body and shoot across the room. I guess it......
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I Lost My Technique, And Now I'm Upset
Matt Foreman
| October 10 2011 |
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I’ve always thought that one of the most frustrating things about being a weightlifter is that you can lose your technique.
Let me explain what I mean when I say “lose your technique,” although anybody who has been an Olympic lifter for any extended time period already knows exactly what I’m talking about. So…you’re learning the snatch and the clean and jerk, which are probably two of the most difficult skills in any branch of athletics. Yo......
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Midnight Shakes For Weight Gain
Greg Everett
| October 7 2011 |
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Anyone who has ever tried to gain a significant amount of weight has tried or at least heard of taking down a protein shake in the middle of the night. Most importantly, this is an opportunity to bump up caloric intake in a 24-hour period without adding more food to what is probably already an inconveniently and uncomfortably large amount. Some will also argue that it helps supply more raw material for tissue repair and growth during the time when most of this recovery is taking place: sleep.The......
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Positive Thinking, And Other Crap Like That
Matt Foreman
| September 26 2011 |
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Ever have one of those moments that just makes your whole mood sour and pissy? I had one at the 2000 Olympic Trials in New Orleans. I was standing in the warm-up room, watching the best lifters in the country getting ready for battle. It was pretty hardcore being back there, let me tell you. Years earlier, a coach had told me that the intensity in the warm-up room at the Olympic Trials was so thick you could cut it with a knife. He wasn’t kidding, jack. So I should have been feeling great,......
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High School Kids Aren't All Idiots
Matt Foreman
| September 18 2011 |
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Man...it never ceases to amaze me how I seem to hear some of the smartest, deepest ideas from some of the most unlikely people.
I'm a high school English teacher. Last week, my students turned in a personal narrative essay I assigned them. One of the essays I read was from a student who will never, ever be confused with Ernest Hemingway. Initially, I had this kid pegged as one of those types who will probably spend a lot of time with his ha......
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We Are Hiring!
Greg Everett
| September 14 2011 |
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Starting: Immediately The Position: We are looking for a new trainer to teach fitness classes 9-12 times/week (currently Monday-Friday 7 am, Tuesday 6pm, Monday-Wednesday-Thursday 7pm). Trainers receive a flat rate per class, plus bonuses for new client recruitment. Trainers will also have an unlimited personal training opportunity, but will be responsible for generating their own clientele (walk-ins and calls will be referred to you when appropriate, but we do not guarantee personal trainin......
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Love The One You're With
Matt Foreman
| September 11 2011 |
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I'm writing this blog entry on September 11th, 2011. As the whole world is aware of, this is the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Ten years ago, we all found out that you can lose everything you have in an instant.
Two years ago, my wife and I took a trip to New York City. The first place we went when we got to the city was Ground Zero (site where the WTC used to be). It was pretty intense to walk around the area and think about what h......
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