A.K.A: Kenji in the Twilight My dogs Kiko and Kenji (left to right). The reason for their picture at the start of this essay will make sense shortly. Conversations on Integral Bodybuilding Part One: A Somewhat Rambling Introduction to Integral Hypertrophy Training I was tired. I had spent the last hour cutting grass, running my weed eater, planting Asian lilies, and watering my gardens. I was hot and sweaty, too. If I still drank, I would have popped open a cold beer—porters and stouts were always my favorite—but I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol in over a year. I have a disease that robbed me of that particular joy, so I settled on a bottle of refrigerated mineral water. It was refreshing, and what my body needed, anyway. The sun was setting. Twilight was upon the land. The last vestiges of orange sunlight slipped through the canopy of trees at the edge of the rolling hi...
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