I had a diverse session at the gym today that involved back, shoulders, triceps and biceps. The belly to wall handstand push ups aren’t getting any easier. 5-6 reps is the max I can handle at this point. If I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2015
Today I did a rowing/riding training brick, opting to not run on my still aching right knee/leg like last week. I did something a bit different on the rower today based on what I saw a guy doing the other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite my cranky right knee I had intended to do some squatting on the smith machine today. Well both of them were occupied so I was diverted back to the leg press sled for the second consecutive week. I had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My bench press buddy was at the gym today so that was all we did for 40 minutes. I didn’t feel as strong as I’d like, my left shoulder felt on the border of troublesome. Still, my numbers weren’t bad […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today I again limped through my sets at the gym. still suffering from pretty acute IT band/knee pain. It sort of sucks. I tried to counteract the negative way I was feeling about my current state of wellness by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I paid the price for stupidly running yesterday when my IT band was already irritated. I have been limping around to varying degrees ever since. I need to do daily rolling of my lower body to try to kick […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So despite nursing a small limp walking into the office from the parking lot this morning I decided that my brick at the gym would include 20 minutes on the treadmill. My hope is if I just keep running, even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to swap out smith machine squatting for leg press this week. I got as high a 5 plates plus a 25lbs on each side (roughly 545 total). The two reps I squeezed out at that weight felt like […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today at the gym my bench press partner was not there but one bench was free so I pressed on solo. I did less bench sets than if he was there and used the extra time to do some other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…