Disturbia

Yes, let's just put everybody on a statin for his or her entire life! Another drug company-sponsored study (AstraZeneca) to make you think you need drugs to be "healthy." It's all so fugazi.

If you haven't noticed, my posts relating to training/strength have been few and far-between lately. No more gas in the rig. Needing a little downtime after over 3 years and 400+ posts. So I'll still be posting, but it'll be a little less frequently and might discuss things other than weightlifting, resistance training, or athletic development for the rest of 2008. Also looking to revamp the whole system with a new laptop and a few more toys for video analysis.

2009 looks like it could be a whirlwind of a year, so it is important for me to regroup and get back my enthusiasm for this stuff. And for my own training. Will turn 40 soon and can only hope to have the same energy and ebullience that my friends Vern Gambetta, Joe Przytula, Mike Burgener, John T. Thrush, Jerry Mayhew and Mark Rippetoe bring to their work. And there's the AD--he turned 48 yesterday. He's my guy and there's no one who works harder.

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Boris said…
Very belated, but wish the AD a Happy Birthday from me will ya?

Thanks!
9:50 PM
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