We will gladly feast on the bones of those who would subdue us isn't our team motto splayed across a shirt back (shown left), it is just a really cool Latin line from The Addams Family movie. The front logo displays nicely in the -V- of a standard competition singlet and lets everyone see what team your lifting for. No matter where you live, you can register as a Bone Unit team member through USA Weightlifting. Or you could start a powerlifting team through USA Powerlifting or any other governing body and use these as your team shirts. You could even just wear one just because you like the shirt.

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"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.

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This shirt was given to each individual 2006 Texas State Weightlifting Champion as part of their awards package. Usually when you win, you get a medal, plaque or trophy.  We wanted to provide the champions something different and unique, so we opted to add something to the award package besides a plaque, something to wear that sported evidence of their athletic achievement.
 
 
 

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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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.

This is a quick pencil, pen & ink study of the hip skeleton and the hip flexors that became an illustration included in the squat chapter of Starting Strength. Most of the hundred or so illustrations in that text went from blank paper to finished product in about an hour (production deadlines were pretty brutal). Although far from perfect, the illustrations accomplished their teaching goals - our primary purpose in producing the book was to teach coaches, trainers, and allied health professionals the how's and why's of teaching weight training.