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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (84626)	10/28/2000 11:47:42 AM
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RE: VASO nctimes.com With your huge profits, are you about to buy fifth third of VASO?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (84626)	10/28/2000 12:29:48 PM
From: Spekulatius	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

India Fund (IFN) I think the India Fund (IFN) is a bargain right now. Despite all the problems, the economy is growing fast. On top of that, the fund sells at nice discount of 35% to the net asset value. It looks like a screaming bargain to me, as long as India doesn't throw a hydrogen bomb at Pakistan, that is. <ng>

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (84626)	10/29/2000 11:48:59 AM
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To All Muscle Heads, Mini-review of "Power To The People" by Pavel Tsatsouline. This is an excellent book, though it sometimes drives me nuts with its inconsistencies. Tsatsouline talks about Russian breakthroughs in strength training. But, beware, his techniques are for gaining strenth without gaining muscle size. If you want those 20 inch guns, his book is not gonna give them to you. The great points of this book are many: 1. The details of how to safely perform the lifting and pressing exercises alone are worth the hefty price of the book. He loves the Deadlift, in many forms, and pressing, in many forms. Some of the forms are very odd, but, I've tried them and like many of them. 2. His concepts of muscle tension during exercise, if not revolutionary, are certainly overlooked in many training manuals. 3. The put-down of expensive clubs and machines is probably fair, thought I have certainly used expensive clubs and own some expensive machines. Still, a $150 300 LB. Olympic set is probably most of what you need to gain all the strength you can handle. You will need extra plates eventually for the deadlifting, but I have a guy who sells used ones here in Houston for 29 cents a pound, so that isn't exactly budget stretching. If you need extra plates for the one-armed side press (we used to call it the bent press back in the old days), let me know and I'll get you a job in the circus. 4. Emphasis on low reps and few sets seems to follow the scientific research, though he doesn't use few enough sets for me. 5. The basic concept that strength and size are unrelated is probably 80% true. Yes, a 135 pound Bulgarian can now lift more than the great Paul Anderson ever lifted when he set the "records that will never be broken." However, I would counter that the 400 pound Bulgarians still lift a lot more than the 135 pound guy, so size is not totally useless. Where I disagreed: 1. Once again, Tsatsouline states that you do not need much recovery time between workouts. However, he again states that he will show the scientific basis in another book. So far, all statement and no proof. I do know that I need the recovery time and I am not a wuss. 2. He recommends two sets of each exercise. What exactly does the second set, at a lower weight, accomplish? He would claim that you are teaching your nerves and muscles how to do the lift. Then why not 10 sets at ever-lower weights? Nah, I am still a one set guy. 3. He knocks working to failure as causing you to fail to get stronger. For the weak minded, maybe, but it does not work that way in the real world. If the champions never fail at a weight, how can they ever do their maximums? I would guess that the Olympic champions miss at least one third of their lifts and still get stronger. Bad idea to always work below maximum, IMHO. 4. He knocks building muscle bulk as building weak, soft muscle. But one of the things he dislikes is all of the new capillaries this larger muscle tissue requires. Uh, Pavel, if you want to live a long time, extra capillaries are a very good thing. It keeps that thing called a heart well juiced. 5. He basically states that training your nerves is the key to strength and building more muscle is not. So why do all of the weightlifters take muscle building, illegal drugs and growth hormone? Methinks they know more than Pavel about what works. All in all, a terrific book. If nothing else, it relieves my feelings of guilt about hating squats. <g>