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IF’ing Roundtable
Since I mentioned intermittent fasting a post or two back, I wanted to point everyone to a short IF roundtable on another blog. Martin Berkhan of Leangains.com along with Brad Pilon, author of Eat, Stop Eat provide some good information on the topic. Go check it out if you have any interest in IF’ing.
A new interview with yours truly
Over the past several weeks, I’ve done an online interview with Steve Troutman for his body-improvements blog. You can read what I had to say below Body-improvements interview Part 1 Body-improvements interview Part
Part 3,4 of my interview at Body Improvements
We’re still working on the changes to the site/blog, please stay patient. IN the interim, you can read Part 3 of my interview at Body Improvements and Part 4 of my interview at Body Improvements
Part 5 of my interview for Body Improvements
The fifth and final part of my interview with Steve Troutman is now up at Body Improvements. Lyle Bodyrecomposition
Warp Speed Fat Loss by Alwyn Cosgrove Contains Plagiarised Material
Quick edit: I have been informed via email that my use of the term ‘plagiarism’ to describe this particular event is incorrect. Rather, the correct term for what happened is copyright infringement. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Lyle *** On Tuesday, I wrote a little bit of an introduction to the [...]
Is Plagiarism the New Internet Business Model?
Now, it’s no big news to say that there aren’t a whole lot of new idea in the world of diet and training. There’s an old joke to the effect that “Anything you’re doing now, Grimek did it.” John Grimek was a lifter way back when and the implication is that there is nothing new under the sun.
A new approach to training: Cold plyometrics
In this day and age of information overload and guru-wisdom, it becomes increasingly hard to come up with new and useful training ideas to take athletes to that next level. However, I have done so with an approach I like to call cold plyometrics (James Smith would refer to this as the sub-temperature shock methodic [...]
Conjugate Training (sort of)
Note: I wrote this several years ago when I was just as unclear on the topic of conjugate training as everyone else. Simply put, the way that conjugate training is being used by lifters it not the way it was meant by the original Russian sports scientists. What the below really describes is a) a [...]
The Lesbian Powerlifting Meet Report
Introduction Ok, you’ve waited for it, you’ve hoped for it. Admit it, you’ve longed for it: it’s time for the lesbian powerlifting meet report. The meet in question was the UT Longhorn Classic, a very well put on meet here at University of Texas at Austin. The lifters in question were Patty and Amalia, my [...]







