More often than not, after I outline both the Parrillo nutritional approach and the Warrior Diet approach, my listener inevitably asks, “So which system is better? Which one trumps the other?” That is the wrong question. It is like asking…
In the continually shifting and expanding universe of performance-related nutrition, Ori Hofmekler offers up a nutritional philosophy unlike anything I have every encountered in my 55+ years of study on the role of food in the transformational process. Hofmekler contends…
John Parrillo is a true master of bodybuilding nutrition. John is a steadfast revolutionary. Brilliant iconoclastic, intense, enigmatic, articulate, occasionally abrasive, Parrillo is above all else an innovator. Radical postulations come easy to this guy. Back in the late 70s…
Like everything else in the world of fitness, aerobic exercise has been made way more complex than necessary. The human innards, our guts, our internal organs, need exercise as surely as our muscles. What’s the best way to exercise, strengthen…
Leonard Schwartz was a medical doctor, psychiatrist, exercise researcher and inventor of Heavyhands. We have all seen joggers running along carrying little red hand weights. Those are Heavyhands and Len Schwartz invented these devices as adjuncts to his unique cardiovascular…
Aladar Kogler is a mysterious Hungarian largely responsible for formulating the Iron Curtain Brain Train methodology used for applied athletics. Kogler and his cohorts were the Mind Masters behind the Big Red Machine back in the halcyon days when communist…
Other mentors taught me how to train, how to eat, how to improve athletic performance, how to write – Krishnamurti taught me how to think. Or more accurately he taught me how not to think. I had noticed during my…
Two psychological geniuses have crossed my path during my life journey: Jiddu Krishnamurti and Aladar Kogler. Each man stakes out one extreme of the Brain Train conundrum. Iron Mentor Bill Pearl was once asked what is the single most difficult…
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”Why do we train? Why do we diet? Why do we take supplements? Why do we join gyms? Why do we invest time, money, energy and effort into all…
A few weeks back I wanted to find my copy of an old Bill Starr book, The Strongest Shall Survive. I found my old copy on a lower book shelf that I rarely look through. Next to Bill’s book was…