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How Low Can (Should) you Go?
Squating: as ancient as it is effective. It represents one of the most fundamental human movement patterns we engage in (or should engage in). It also happens to be one of those fundamental movement patterns that modern-day humans are increasingly losing the ability to express. Unsurprisingly, many folks (often much later in life) turn to…
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Practicing Patience: The Road to a 400 lb Deadlift
For the past year or so I’ve been working towards achieving a 400 lb one-rep max deadlift. This would represent a fairly significant lift for me, coming in at roughly 2.5 times my body weight. Thus far, however, the lift has eluded me. In November 2018 I thought I was coming close, pulling 385 lbs…
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Learning to Write
One of the drivers motivating me to start this blog was my desire to improve my writing. Somewhere to post frequent writing on a topic that interests me, in this case fitness. At this point, Salt & Iron has viewership hovering close to zero, and that’s okay. Of course I want people to read these…
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Reframing Weekend Eating
It’s the weekend, and like clockwork my willpower drops and my ability to justify poorer habits peaks. I had a long stressful week at the office (not really), and I’ve earned some pizza… Plus some ice cream… Plus some poutine… Plus, since I’ve already eaten all that, whatever else I want until Monday rolls around…
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Two Birds Stoned at Once
For the past year or so I’ve been diligently stretching most evenings. Typically, if my wife and I were to go to our basement to watch an episode of say, Narcos, I’d make sure to spend a brief 5-10 minutes moving through a number of stretches before getting too comfortable on the couch. A small…
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Filets for Days
Yesterday while grocery shopping, we noticed large beef tenderloin cuts were on sale again (roughly 40% off regular price). In the past we’ve generally avoided these massive, intimidating cuts of beef that can approach $100. This time around, however, we decided to finally give in and purchase this more economical cut (at least when compared…
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Back to Reality
It’s now day two sans-vacation. My first full day back to reality. My wife is at soccer (or is it hockey?) tonight, so I’m on my own. I knew if I didn’t take this opportunity to jump right back into the routine that existed before our vacation, I would run the risk of falling off…
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Walk. Repeat.
This morning we left Halifax to start the roughly 1,500 km drive back to our home in Ottawa. With no hotel booked, we hit the road at 7:30 intending to see how far we could make it. I thought we could make the entire drive in one go, but alas I tired sometime after Edmundston,…
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Peak Athletic Expression – Breakdancing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Can we please take a brief moment to acknowledge one of the most impressive examples of athletic expression; breakdancing. Modern day b-girls and b-boys (female and male breakdancers, respectively) have been rocking backspins and windmills on cardboard and linoleum for small crowds for decades, and now have provisionally been given the world stage to show…
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The Iron Islands are Calling
I can’t wait any longer. My intention was to use this two-week trip as a complete break from barbell training. Get out of my routine, and give my body a break from the heavy squatting and pulling. We’re now on the eleventh day of our vacation, and the iron is calling my name. Today we…
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