Friday is normally core day but I thought I would switch things up a bit, partly because it’s always good to switch things up and second, my lower body is still killing me from Tuesday’s squats. I came up with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2016
Today I worked poor man’s t-bar rows into shoulder/back day. They don’t have an actual t-bar so an olympic bar with a close grip cable machine handle works good enough. With my legs still killing me from all those squats […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing all that exciting to report from bicep and tricep day other than I got things started with a set of 20 pull ups. My strength felt decent but my lower body is killing me from my PB squat totals […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earned the pain
Today I did squats with another gym buddy I talk to pretty regularly. He is about my height and a couple years younger but probably somewhere around 40 pounds heavier. He played tight end in college and used to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my compound lower body movement of the workout I started with hack squats. Unfortunately there is no easily visible mirror nearby to verify depth but I try to make sure I get the angle of my knees below 90 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometime last week I started feeling a dull pain on my right side in what felt to be just beneath where my rib cage ends. At my age aches and pains all over my body are pretty common place and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The main core exercise for today was ab wheel rollouts. I used an olympic bar with 10 pound weights on each end as my “wheel”. I like doing them with this set up because it allows me to use varied […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I included side dips in my bicep/tricep work. A side dip is like a regular bodyweight dip except at the bottom of the movement you shift your weight to alternating sides so you armpit is right next to your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a two week hiatus I was back to lower body work. The squat rack was occupied so I jumped on the squat press. Considering the layoff and my recent across the board slight decrease in strength, my numbers weren’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekend my girlfriend and I got a lot of “exercise” in the form of home project labor. I built a new door for the chicken coop run and we laid another 60 castle stones as a border around the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…