So I was in the middle of a stressful day at work. I stepped into the truck for the recently more stressful commute to the Wellness Center. After the now typical 10+ minute commute dealing with relentless snowbird lane cloggers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2015
There were some wins and losses today. I started my workout with a set of 20 pull ups, a rep count I had been unable to hit since my various problems at the end of 2014. The squat rack was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well the endurance training I had planned for Sunday never happened because of the tragic killing of our chickens Saturday night. I won’t rehash it here but if you want to read about what happened you can do so in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may recall the other day I wrote about how for most of the last year it has felt like I lost my inner drill sergeant and instead had him replaced with a Richard Simmons-esque trainer, someone who wants you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I hit a little bit of everything from an upper body perspective. I still feel weak but at least I am slowly feeling less so. Today’s Workout 5 minutes cardio/stretching 15 pull ups 20 dips Seated dumbbell curl 25lbs […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just got through 4 very stressful days related to my duties as the race timer for the local half marathon. I encountered some problems with the event timing that lead to pretty incredible amounts of work to address. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I have lamented for the past year or so, I have had a drop off in my physical abilities across the board due to injury, illness and just being an old fart. So far in 2015 I have been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned yesterday I had a sharp pain in my bad right knee as I was switching positions on the kneeling leg curl machine. I was worried I once again did some sort of meniscus damage, an unfortunate habit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today at the gym I did my first barbell squatting with anything more than 135 pounds on the bar for the first time in at least a couple months. The experience was made less enjoyable since I was six […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
5.5, Minuses are winning
Over the weekend I upped my running distance and did most of it on open roads instead of round and round the local 400 meter track. The varied scenery and cool temperatures in the lower 60’s helped me cover 5.5 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…