Before we get things started here, I haven’t been able to write quite as much as I want to on the blog. I have been busy, as with a great many of you, in all likelihood, with various holiday functions and I have been trying to put the finishing touches on a book I have been working on for almost two years—and should have had finished by now—on Miyamoto Musashi’s “The Dokkodo.” However, I will try to post at least one more essay/article—possibly two—to round out 2024. With that little aside out of the way, let’s get down to business. I had a question from a reader who wanted to know if I knew of any training program that was capable of both building muscle and burning bodyfat at the same time. If you’re unaware, it’s widely considered damn-near impossible to achieve that feat. Even guys on anabolics have a problem with doing such a thing, although the introduction of steroids, and other perfor...
Essays on Old-School Strength Training, Classic Bodybuilding, Traditional Martial Arts, and Budo Philosophy