fitness Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/category/fitness Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 182200397 Piling higher and deeper into a fitness fustercluck https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/piling-higher-and-deeper-into-a-fitness-fustercluck.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/piling-higher-and-deeper-into-a-fitness-fustercluck.html#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:59:56 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22741 A very weird bit of internet drama blew up over the last few weeks. Most of you have probably never heard of a guy named Dr. Mike Israetel, who runs a YouTube channel called “Renaissance Perioditization”, or something like that. He has a doctorate in… well, something to do with sports science, apparently. And, for […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/piling-higher-and-deeper-into-a-fitness-fustercluck.html/feed 2 22741 Domain Query: If the bar ain’t bendin’… https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/domain-query-if-the-bar-aint-bendin.html https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/domain-query-if-the-bar-aint-bendin.html#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=14342 LRFotS Robert W is in the market for a new barbell (that’s his kid in the picture, by the way – joking), and asked for some opinions on the subject in a comment on a post from a few days ago, when I ranted about the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad, awful, miserable, stupid […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2022/01/domain-query-if-the-bar-aint-bendin.html/feed 3 14342 Because it’s IDIOTIC, that’s why https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/because-its-idiotic-thats-why.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/because-its-idiotic-thats-why.html#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:32:50 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=12013 Our good friend Dawn Pine sent over an interesting link the other day, from a website in India, of all places – seriously, he reads more from Indian news than I do – about why people who attend CrossFit gyms are quitting the fitness fad: It’s not just fitness enthusiasts, even CrossFit coaches often recognise […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/because-its-idiotic-thats-why.html/feed 8 12013 Learn the rules – then break the rules https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000 There is an old quote from, I think, martial arts legend Bruce Lee which goes something like this: “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/07/learn-rules-then-break-rules.html/feed 7 114 The price of beast mode https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/the-price-of-beast-mode.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/the-price-of-beast-mode.html#comments Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000 I was going to save this clip for the usual set of Monday awesomeness, but it is simply too good not to show here. This is a really fascinating interview with Eddie Hall that explains how he was able to do the absolutely impossible and deadlift FIVE HUNDRED KILOGRAMS off the ground: Many of you have undoubtedly […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/the-price-of-beast-mode.html/feed 3 760 Grunt-work https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/grunt-work.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/grunt-work.html#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Do YOU have what it takes to join Her Majesty’s Royal Marines? I’ll be very honest here: I sure as Hell couldn’t have passed that test, when I was 18. I was very fat and quite slow and my cardiovascular endurance was piss-poor. A year and a bit of hard cycling through the streets of […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/grunt-work.html/feed 2 828 The Great Squat Debate https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/the-great-squat-debate.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/the-great-squat-debate.html#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000 There has been a debate raging in lifting circles for many years about the difference between low-bar and high-bar squats. And, honestly, from the perspective of actual lifters – rather than spergy nerds wanking in forums for teh lulz – it’s kind of a ridiculous debate. For those of you who are novice lifters, you may […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/the-great-squat-debate.html/feed 0 844 Domain Query: The triumph of steel https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/domain-query-triumph-of-steel.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/domain-query-triumph-of-steel.html#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Longtime reader and friend of the blog Kapios asks an excellent question related to the severe and dreadful infestation of gym idiots that plagues pretty much every gym, anywhere: If you were a dictator what rules would you change about gyms? I know you mentioned heavy metal music while exercising and I agree with that. […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/09/domain-query-triumph-of-steel.html/feed 4 858 Domain Query: Strengthen or Ruin https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/domain-query-strengthen-or-ruin.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/domain-query-strengthen-or-ruin.html#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Longtime reader and friend of the blog Dire Badger had a rather thought-provoking comment pertaining to gym bros like Chris “FREDO!!!” Cuomo, and why quite a few of them end up turning into giant liberaltard douchenozzles: Think of getting swoll [sic] like you would the drive and willpower to get rich. Some people use their […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/domain-query-strengthen-or-ruin.html/feed 2 884 This is why women’s football sucks https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/this-is-why-womens-football-sucks.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/this-is-why-womens-football-sucks.html#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 The USA women’s football team won the World Cup recently, and like pretty much everyone else here, I really couldn’t give a shit about that. In fact, one of my readers, with whom I am in fairly regular contact, told me a rather good joke related to them. He was talking about the severe flooding […]

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