My Introduction

Well hello there.  I'm Alex and I’m not sure why, but for whatever reasonyou’ve stumbled across this blog and I’m honored.  This blog will be about strength and conditioning, nutrition, and just making yourself better both physically and mentally.

So what's my goal in creating this site?  It's to help people feel better, move better, and look better....in that order!  While I’m not sure if you’ll ever come back - and I hope that you do - if I can help one person feel better in any way, this wholesite will be worth it.

Now,before I start my ranting and raving, I figured it’s best to give some sort of awarning label before I let fly like Mussolini from the balcony (if youunderstood that sitcom reference, life points for you). While I will get into my own life story in subsequent posts, it's best if I lay out some of my own beliefs, so you know what you're getting yourself into: 

• If I were given only oneexercise for the rest of my life: it’d be some type of squatvariation.  It’s too bad that 90% ofthe population have lost their squatting pattern, to borrow a saying from Gray Cook.  In a squat your femur, not your thighs, has to be at least parallel to the ground.  And no, squatting CORRECTLY doesn’t hurt your knees.
  
  
• Smoking in public has to be oneof the most selfish and rudest acts anyone can perform.  I’m sorry, it may be a “free country”for everyone that decides to light up, but it’s forcing everyone else tobreathe in your carcinogens.
  
  
• Crossfit is the strength andconditioning version of the Atkins diet. It’s appropriate for about 1% of the population; everyone who isdoing it will tell you about it; and the fad is already dying out.
  
  
• The better the writer, the lessfrequent they need to use words you’ll only see on standardizedtesting.  Now, there arealways exceptions.  But if yourverbosity borders on the realm of obscurity, it’s not copacetic.
  
  
• Single leg training is farsuperior to bilateral training, and I’m living proof!  But then again, if you don’t considertraining to be “training” without grunting and piling on plates, may I suggestthat you have issues that are a bit deeper rooted than a front or backsquat.

• The designated hitter is greatfor baseball.  Seriously, how canyou hate something that makes a league more competitive, prolongs careers,and enables players to earn more money for the families (ahem, David Ortiz)?

• Women need to lift heavy things,perhaps more than men.  While Iwon’t get carried away on the benefits of increased bone density, hormonaldifferences between the sexes, or the unfounded notion that even lookingat weights will make a woman look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, mostprograms that women perform are actually body building programs (the differenceis sarcomplasmic and myofibrilial hypertrophy)!  I will spend time on this blog trying todisprove the cultural trend that women shouldn’t lift, not just because it's a myth, but honestly, who wants to be physically weak?

• Finally, I have extremelyterrible taste in music.  Whenever Ipost a video, you can bet that you’ll be hard pressed not to punch me inthe face.  For instance, I’ve beensinging this song for the past 2 months: