All aboard the pain train.

If you’ve been following this page for a while, you’re probably no stranger to our outspoken views on the preservation of memorials, commemorations and our shrines. There is a reason we rage against the abject politicisation of these things. 

We will always speak our truth, especially if this goes against the grain of the popular narrative. This is our why.

Who is he and why are we talking about him?

For a long time, he held the highest ever recorded VO2max. Let's dig in.

Eero Mäntyranta was a Finnish cross-country skier who won seven Olympic medals, including three gold medals, in the 1960s. Mäntyranta's success in skiing was attributed to his exceptionally high VO2max, measured at a staggering 96 ml/kg/min.

This article follows a discussion we recently had at the gym about steroid use and EPO (and other PED's like it) and accelerated improvement. Because it was such an interesting discussion, we decided to put this discussion into article.

There's 4 components we broke this down to:

1. Directly associated increases in physical performance,
2. indirect associated increases in skill development and,
3. the compounding interest principle.
4. All the reasons not to take PED's.

• "Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy."
• "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."
• "You can't out-train a bad diet."
• "I'm a great believer in the fact that when you're good at something, you'll find a way to be good at something else."