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During the past few months, we have seen one of the biggest health crises of the past 100 years. The coronavirus pandemic has created a health crisis that has not been seen since the Spanish Flu pandemic more than 100 years ago. As a result, many of the inadequacies of the health system have been put on... Continue Reading →
Randy Roach's Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors series has had a profound influence on my life. It was of the first historical books on fitness I stumbled across during my college days and it's probably, in part, one of the reasons why I became so interested in the history of fitness. Having read, and reread the series several times,... Continue Reading →