Archive for September 2026

by- Josh Bryant At 16, I became the night and weekend manager of a hardcore gym. I was exposed to bodybuilders, powerlifters, ex-cons, great personal trainers, terrible personal trainers, and a cast of characters ranging from an exotic dancer who was in love with a strip-club bouncer who broke a wine bottle over her head…

by Joseph Giandonato, PhD, MBA, CSCS Introduction Enter any Globo-gym during the post-rush hour pandemonium and you’ll bear witness to legions of mile high squatters and clusters of middle-aged men performing bench presses with a range of motion that would make the down and distance preceding a quarterback sneak for a score seem like a…

Tom Haviland is a master of the Zercher squat. Muscles don’t need to be confused. They need a reason to adapt! Somewhere along the way, muscle confusion became a training principle. Maybe the Trappist monks have it figured out better than we do. These guys have been brewing basically the same beer for generations. No…

by- Josh Bryant About five years ago, during the pandemic, I stopped at the Ol’ Beer-To-Go on the south side of Hugo, Oklahoma, to grab a coffee. It was hot, humid, and basically a default wet T-shirt contest. Out back was an older white guy working off his truck. His face looked like weathered canvas…

Bro Science legend Anthony Schlegel demonstrates his unconventional approach to stadium security. Mark was a biker, landscaper and Vietnam veteran who trained at our YMCA in skin tight jeans and a wife beater. When he wasn’t telling war stories about Vietnam, he loved talking about bodybuilding. A lot of people called him white trash behind…