Marcia Ferguson is at an age when most athletes have long since retired and can usually be found sitting in a comfortable chair parked in front of a wide screen TV reminiscing about their glory days to whomever will listen. Marcia, on the other hand, has enthusiastically begun a brand new career in a new sport and as a result of decades of hardcore bodybuilding finds herself already competing at elite levels in her new athletic activity. The sport is powerlifting and Marcia has set state, regional, national and world records in her age group and weight class.

Virginia Mark has written another long letter addressing the issue of 20-set per body part weight training; in his first letter Mark unequivocally accused me of ‘irresponsible journalism’ for recommending a 20-set per body part training regimen to anyone other than a steroid monster. I can’t decide how best to respond to his follow-up letter because it raises so many refutable points that I literally could use all 26-pages of the Parrillo Performance Press to dispute every single one of his contentions and assertions – with one or two exceptions. Since Virginia Mark’s letter is two and a half pages long, I’ll excerpt Mark’s contentions before offering my slam-dunk counter-arguments. This will be for the readers benefit as I labor under not the slightest illusion that anything I say will dent any part of Virginia Mark’s cranium to any significant degree.