I’m filling in for Guy Benson today on radio.

You get to have a preview of the monologue . I’m just here in my office rehearsing.

The A block will make more sense when you’ve seen this video. You will have special insight into a bit which may or may lot have worked. We shall see!

How to be Special: with Jim Florentine on the HTBTS Podcast

Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:

This is just me talking while driving, on my way home Saturday Night.

Kettlebells… ‘Kettlebells?!?’

I’m an old hand at ‘Worshiping at the Temple of Steel and Iron’.
I’ve pushed around large stacks of weights on a semi-regular basis over the years. My longest streak was a little over 24 months.
I looked like a ‘Troll’, folks thought I was an NFL Lineman, or a Professional Wrestler.
That’s also most likely how I destroyed my hips. The one sure way I could ‘show off’ in the gym, is moving massive stacks of plates with my legs.

I know that, a ‘lifting program’ can ‘stall’, you have a tendency to perform the same lifts and movements repetitively. Your body adapts and you quit getting bigger and stronger. So you need to have a repertoire of different exercises and movements to ‘punish’ your body when it gets ‘lazy’.

I no longer try to move the maximum amount of weight possible. I don’t need to get huge, or to impress anyone anymore. I’m more interested now in ‘compound’ exercises. Ones that not only involve multiple muscles, but also ...