The Archives

Post from the heyday of Myosynthesis & Amped Training c. 2005-2013

BEFORE YOU READ THIS!

Myosynthesis is closed.

These are all posts that written pre-2013.

That was an angrier and more skeptical time on a very different internet. There’s a lot of material here that I won’t agree with anymore, or which is just plain outdated. Read it at your own risk.

But couldn’t every­one’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
--Michel Foucault

Here I’ve curated posts which I consider to be important, which will give new readers an overview of my ideas (and make it easier for long-time followers to find the nuggets). There’s no suggested reading order, so read at your leisure. Here I’ve curated posts which I consider to be important, which will give new readers an overview of my ideas (and make it easier for long-time followers to find the nuggets). There’s no suggested reading order, so read at your leisure.

Wondering where Amped Training went? Read here.

Daily Squatting

These were all the posts I wrote while researching and beating myself up with daily squats to a max.

Articles about Training

These are posts that cover miscellaneous nuts and bolts.

Workout Programs

This is probably what you’re here for.

Foundations

This collection of posts relates How I Think About Things. Also included here are discussions of biology: genetics & epigenetics, neuroscience, and other topics only obliquely related to physical training.

Knowledge in Fitness

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

This series of posts talks about how scientific knowledge, from exercise science and nutrition, informs debates about the “right” way to train and eat for results.