Over the four day holiday weekend I did a bear walk around the perimeter of my backyard fence. If you would like to see how that turned out look here. Today at the gym I suggested to my bench press […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for November, 2015
I went to the gym but certainly did not feel very focused as my mind is wrapped around the largest 5K race of the year that I am timing tomorrow. I just wasn’t into it. With that being said I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I felt strong doing heavy squat press. After knocking out three reps at 585lbs I thought it would be cool to throw a 10 pounder on either side pushing the total weight just over 600 pounds. I did a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So like I mentioned last week I had some pretty significant shoulder pain when I tried to do dips on Thursday. I was hoping that another three days of rest would allow it to sort things out. Well my very […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a lackluster core day at the gym. Earlier in the day I banged up my left forearm when a heavy piece of network equipment got pulled off a 6 foot high rack due to my stupidity. I think […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as I mentioned yesterday chin ups appear to not aggravate my left forearm the way pull ups do. The change in palm direction must make all the difference. I included sets of chin ups in my back/shoulder focused work […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New name, discovered
It’s been awhile since I came up with a new nickname for unique gym goers but today the drought is over, meet the Sweat Brothers. Most gyms have guys like this and they all have a lot of the same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My lower body didn’t feel great, presumably from the marathon tree trimming on Saturday. When I was squatting under heavy load I had weakness in my right side that kept me from doing as well as I would have liked. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekend I did zero running or biking but I still managed to burn a ton of calories doing old fashioned hard work. I spent the majority of the day Saturday trimming roughly 25 trees on my property. The task […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for a few weeks I have been starting my Friday workouts with a max push ups set. My goal has been to try to add +1 rep to that total each week. Up to and including this week I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…