After a clear decline in 2014 as far as my health and fitness goes I had a rebound year. Things were far from perfect with chronic IT band pain that lasted damn close to 6 months and a return of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for December, 2015
My chest and nearby areas felt quite sore today from second day soreness following my first chest pressing exercise for a couple weeks. Nothing I did today felt very good but I did it anyway. Today’s Workout 5 minutes cardio/stretching […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was my first day trying to do any lower body resistance training since the Stonepark brutal workout. Despite now being well over a week, both of my knees still have a degree of swelling and soreness in them. Despite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was my first organized exercise since my grueling workout with Lou at the venerable Stone Park, outside of NYC. We did a 3-4 hour strongman workout that consisted of dead lifts, farmer carry, atlas stones, tire flipping and log […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I felt strong last week doing the Cybex shoulder press so I wanted to see how it would translate this week in the seated barbell shoulder press. Although the numbers were much smaller they were good for me. I topped […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since today is my 48th birthday, meaning I am rapidly closing in on the dreaded half century mark, I thought it would be appropriate to inject 50 pull ups, push ups and dips into the front of my work out. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today my buddy and I jumped back to dumbbell chest press as we are hoping to alternate between dumbbell and barbell chest work every other week. When I got the 100 pounders up for 2 reps I thought I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to accelerate my gym visit today. In the span of 25 minutes I managed to put a good burn into my core thanks mostly to the ab roll outs using a short barbell with 5 pounders on either […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I again tried to push some of my current limits with weighted pull ups where I managed to squeeze out one eye popping rep with 70 pounds between my legs. I then surprised myself towards the end of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…