AKA: How "Big" Jim Williams Became the First Man to Bench Press 700 lbs Big Jim Williams bench pressing in competition. I rarely think about, or plan at all, what I'm going to write on this blog until I actually sit down to write it. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't write everything in this manner. Currently, for instance, I'm working on a "Budo Zen" book on the real intersection of martial arts and spirituality, and that book takes research. But that aside, I really, truly have no idea what I'm going to write until I sit down and actually, you know, write it . So this morning I sat down to hammer away at my keyboard, and thought, "what the heck should I write about in the field of strength training that I haven't written about, or, at least, haven't written about in a long time?" About the only planning I do is asking myself that sort of question once I decide whether I want to write about muscle-building, or serious s
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