I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!