http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyp_L2jFBIY I made one last attempt at hard mode of this month’s Bar-barian challenge, flying pull ups. This was the same thing that ripped my right hand open earlier in the month when I stupidly chalked the bar and my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for May, 2012
So Wednesday at the gym was leg day. One of the movements I always try to do during leg day are squats. I don’t particularly enjoy doing squats. My body is not exactly well proportioned to squat effectively. I also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The other day I saw Metin commented on some guy’s pull up bar picture. The bar had two blue things on it, I wasn’t sure what they were. Metin said they were called Fat Gripz and they were excellent. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So this weekend I did my first training brick in quite a long time, a bike ride, followed by a run followed by swimming laps in the pool. I have mentioned several times the chronic shoulder problems I have developed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple times this week I have done unbroken sets of 50 push ups at the gym. It was the first time in awhile I tried to stretch a pure push up set. For several months all of my push […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ripped up, slacking
I made an attempt at hard mode for this month’s challenge which are flying pull ups, the variety where you release the bar and change your hand position each rep. Before the attempt I made the mistake of chalking my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I had pretty much avoided all chest pushing exercises for the past two weeks to see if it would help alleviate some of the chronic pain I have been experiencing in both shoulders. Well, it didn’t. My shoulders still […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…