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Interesting research on the prescriptive health aspect of grip strength The Training Hall by Odd E. Haugen Odd Haugen Grip Strength Northwest Grip Enthusiasts https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/

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Registration still open!!! Where are all the light weight men and female armlifters? Bill Weiss Odd Haugen Mike Gillert Jon Eccles Will Guiliani Here's the sta...rt list so far: Women 60KG Melody Schoenfeld x Women 80KG x Women 80KG+ x Women Masters x Teen Girls x Men 60kg x Men 70KG x Men 80KG William Salle x Men 90KG x Men 100KG Jon Eklund Riccardo Magni Bill Weiss x Men 110KG x Men 125KG Brandon Kyse Odd Haugen Leon Janota John Machnik x Men 125KG+ Carl Myerscough Derik Hudson #strength #grip #armlifting #gripsport #armliftingUSA #APL #strongman #strongwoman #strengthathletics #highlandgames #crossfit #strengthtraining #weighttraining #powerlifting #weightlifting #visegripviking #redbullsports #dotFIT #GrowStrong #TheFitExpo #AAU #Rogue #IronGrip #IronMind #Ivanko #MAS #UrbanCrunch #Sorinex #HandArmor #Magnesium4Muscle dotFIT - Online Fitness and Weight Loss Programs Rogue Fitness Iron Grip Barbell Company IronMind Enterprises, Inc. TheFitExpo AAU Sports Strongman Corporation Ivanko Barbell Company Starting Strongman Urban Crunch Meal PrepReign Body Fuel RX Fitness Equipment Sorinex Exercise Equipment

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A great article on mental attitude and ageing by Josh Bryant : "Turning Back the Clock by: Josh Bryant Imagine a pleasant evening in Waikiki, three sake bombs d...eep, the Don Ho cover band sounds celestial, boom! All of a sudden, the Big Kahuna and wrecking crew come in and want to do the toe-to-toe mambo. Who would you want by your side? Odd Haugen is somebody that immediately comes to mind. Odd was my training partner in 2004 to 2005; then, he was 56 years old as he dominated high-level professional strongman contests weighing a svelte 280, matched to competitors half his age routinely weighing over 400. Odd continued to dominate professional strongman contests into his 60s. You know how often I heard Odd mention his age and its potential handicap to performance? Not once. Odd trained smart and played the risk-to-benefit equation like a synchronized symphony. He used common sense but clearly understood the power of self-talk. Another such person I trained with that dominated the powerlifting scene into his 50s was Art LaBare. The first time I met Art he was 46 years old, built like a brick outhouse and benched 530 pounds raw at the initial meeting, then threw on a shirt and went over 700. Not once did Art mention his age. Contrast that to another guy that attended a gym where I worked. This pendejo was a proud, supposed drug-free lifter but at 34 years old needed testosterone replacement therapy. All he talked about, when he would corner me at the front desk, was getting old, aches, pains and how I wouldn’t understand; he is damn straight, I trained with Art LaBare! Maybe playing poker with old men and lawn bowling were the issue, those were literally his hobbies. What kind of environment is that? Does anyone under 90 lawn bowl? No wonder he acted like he had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. What does science say? Back in 1981, eight men in their 70s and 80s went on a retreat and pretended to be 22 years younger than their chronological age. Harvard psychologist, Ellen Langer, Ph.D., and a team of researchers organized this event. Interestingly, they took along a second group of eight elderly men to the same location the succeeding week. The difference was the men in group 2, the control group, were requested to actively reminisce about being 22 years younger, however they did not pretend they were 22 years younger. Group 1 found themselves encircled by a superfluity of environmental cues to assist in re-creating an earlier age. These elderly men watched movies and TV shows from 1959, listened to recordings of 1959 radio, read the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine all from 1959. To really make the experience real, they discussed events of the day from 1959 such as Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba and Mickey Mantle’s baseball prowess. These variables were brilliantly designed to aid the men in imagining they were back in 1959. The results prove psychology trumps physiology! Post both five-day retreats, the team of researchers took several measurements and compared them to the ones that were taken initially before the study began. Both groups were structurally, as well as physiologically, younger. The first study group improvements were much more profound than the second group, who’d only reminisced. The first groups posture improved and they became physically taller! And the results just kept getting better as their joints gained flexibility and their fingers lengthened as their arthritis diminished. They could see and hear better. These same men scored better on tests of mental cognition and their memory improved. Biologically, these men, in five days, had become five years younger! At the end of the study, I was playing footballtouch, but still footballwith these men, some of whom gave up their canes. This happened because the men turned on the circuits in their brains, reminding them of who they were 22 years earlier, and then their body chemistry responded. These men did not just feel younger, they really were younger! Final Thoughts To call these results the 'the placebo effect' is just giving a name to something people don’t fully understand. Results are the objective and any ethical method that produces transformational change, I am on board with. Proverbs, chapter 23, verse 7: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Psychology is physiology. Develop the successful mindset HERE."

State’s Stay Home Order Triggered in Southern California Region, Effective December 6, Midnight and will stay in effect for at least 3-weeks. Ventura, CA - The State of California’s Stay Home Order will go into effect on Sunday, December 6 at midnight in Ventura County and in all Counties in Southern California, after the Southern California Region's hospital ICU capacity dropped below 15%. The order closes many businesses and activities and urges people to stay at home when...ever possible. The order requires bars, wineries, nail salons, hair salons and barbershops, and other personal care services to close. Private gatherings of any size are prohibited. Restaurants can stay open for takeout and delivery, but they have to shut down both indoor and outdoor dining. Additionally, all non-essential travel is temporarily restricted statewide. Hotels and motels are now restricted to guests traveling for an essential reason. WE WILL MOVE OUR EVENTS TO THE WEEKEND OF JANUARY 29-31st 2021

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