This shirt design is my first Adobe Photoshop effort ... an extension of the section on the Valsalva maneuver in Mark Rippetoe's and my book "Starting Strength".
"My Mom says my brain wont explode when I squat" - Ah, yes. A brilliant mother she is too. She understands that if you perform the Valsalva maneuver when you squat heavy, cerebrovascular transmural pressure actually goes down thus reducing the risk of a cerebrovascular incident (bet you did not know that this has been understood since the 1940s). So listen to Mom, at least this one, not your local personal trainer or other "wellness expert", they probably have not actually studied the anatomy and physiology of weight training. Of course you do not have to trust us either but you can look it up ... Hamilton, W., Woodbury, R., and Harper, H. Arterial, cerebrospinal, and venous pressures in man during cough and strain. American Journal of Physiology, 141:42-50, 1944.
Want one? Click over to the Aasgaard Company store. If there aren't any in stock, keep checking back as these get reprinted every year or thereabouts.
A t-shirt done for CrossFit Wichita Falls. The CrossFit model of training, although well planned and systematic, often appears to the outsider to be chaotic, and maybe even a little anarchistic. CrossFitters relish being the outlaws of fitness and proudly sport some relatively controversial shirts.
This shirt was done for a
vendor at the Southwest Missouri Celtic Festival in 2008.
This was the event program
cover and the t-shirt from the 1977 National Junior Olympic Championships.
The lifter is, of course, David Rigert, drawn from a photo in Strength
& Health magazine. This was a good event for me ... home town event,
got to design the logo, and I won the 60kg class.
Selected Anatomical Illustrations
A representation of the ligation
of a main coronary artery in a rat. I did a hundred or more of these
surgeries during my doctoral work in Anatomy
& Physiology. I did the pencil draft of this during one of
the actual surgeries and the resulting pen & ink illustration became
part of my dissertation. I did a couple other illustrations for other graduate
students' theses and dissertations as well.
This is a quick pencil study of the biceps brachii that was included in the second edition of "Starting Strength" and in my "Anatomy Without a Scalpel" student laboratory guide. This is the fun stuff I like to do. Yeah it may be weird to like to draw anatomy for fun but it also helps one teach anatomy AND it helps me understand what the muscles are actually doing during movement.
Selected Art Pieces
