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Clarence Bass
Personal blog · cbass.comhealth
Clarence Bass's personal blog at cbass.com covers health. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Clarence Bass's site for an older lifter's physique, a once-a-week strength routine kept up into his late 80s, and a page on Herbert Benson's Breakout Principle. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Being old doesn't have to mean looking it. Taking a different guy as an example: http://cbass.com/PICTORAL.HTM
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on “Stephen Covey, "7 Habits" author, dies at 79”Fitness is not simply cardio. There's a great Men's Journal article, featured a few times on HN, "Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie". Read it. Several times. https://web.archive.org/web/20110130195636/http://www.mensjo... (Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213 , particularly.) Your body is an adaptive system, it responds to stimulus…
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on “Thoughts On a Year of Exercise”At a certain point, relatively little exercise (a single lifting session per week, regular walking) is remarkably effective at retaining overall strength and muscle mass. Senior lifter and bodybuilder Clarance Bass, now in his late 80s (born 1937) has followed this regime for the past few decades. I think he covers this somewhere on his website, though I wasn't able to track that down looking for it just now. You or…
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on “To Build Muscle, It's the Sets That Count”A good book about this is: The Breakout Principle by Herbert Benson. His model is that creative insight comes from periods of intense activity followed by a down period. http://cbass.com/Breakout.htm
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on a deleted threadI dropped 45 pounds and gained a good amount of muscle over the course of 12 months using a simple no-gym-required regimen: Weight loss phase For the first 6 months or so I walked at least a mile a day - usually I just got up from my desk and circled my office complex at midday. It only took about twenty minutes. During this phase I ate lightly - small bowl of cereal every morning, dry garden salad at lunch, mid-siz…
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on “The hundred push ups training program”
