Today was my shoulder/bicep/tricep combo. I did my inverted shoulder shrugs for the first time at the Wellness Center. By some of the odd looks I received I am pretty sure that they don’t have too many inverted shruggers in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for August, 2014
Because it’s hard
Doing my cardio brick the day after doing squats and deadlifts is never much fun. Perhaps that is why I choose to do it. It’s been my experience in my 25 years of adult exercise that the more often you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No bottle to save me
So today on my second rep at 225lbs on the squat rack I almost had a fail like I did yesterday benching. My momentum had stopped momentarily and I was in that split second decision making mode if I was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today was my heavy bench press day at the gym. I had felt pretty weak last week, my first time benching since my mom passed. This week on my 1 rep test lift at 225 I didn’t struggle as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Across the board
It looks like my weakness is pretty much across the board. My squat and DL numbers were average at best today. It at least feels good to be hitting the gym again. Today was my first time using my Chuck […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today was the first time I have returned to the gym since my mom had a sudden, massive, heart attack and passed away three days later. To say it was a difficult, life altering event would be an understatement. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today at the gym there were three “squrlers” (my new new name for squat rack curlers) all in a row doing bicep curl reps inside the squat rack. It seems like squrling is a highly contagious disease. One gym member […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was a shoulder/bicep/tricep day. Nothing all that exciting to report although my 145 lb overhead press felt pretty good. Doing preacher curls at heavier weight did not feel good. I had the strength to handle curling 90 pounds but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I upped my pace slightly on the treadmill portion of my brick to 6.7 mph. The .1 mph speed increase dropped my per mile pace below the 9 minute mark to 8:57. The last 2 minutes of the run […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inside the machine
The Wellness Center has an interesting squat machine that I wanted to try out. It is named the “Freemotion”. Since today was squat/dl day I figured it was good as time as any, especially since some gym novice was again […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…