I still have an overall general rotten feeling from whatever illness is trying to grab hold of me but I still got my ass to the gym for a lower body, bi, and tri hybrid session. My endurance felt off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for November, 2016
Hope it’s a false alarm
I woke up this morning with a sore throat which felt like a precursor to oncoming illness. Sometimes I get lucky and the sensation fades with no real consequence. However I felt low energy during my run/ride brick at the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So like most Americans I had more than my fair share of calories over the extended holiday weekend, both on Thanksgiving itself and three days afterward as leftovers. The end result of all that was the scale creeping up 2-3 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I have commented before about a few individuals using oxygen deprivation masks at the gym and how they seemed inappropriate based on the individual wearing it and the exercise they were doing while deprived. (ie. bench press) My understanding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Synchronized slammers
Today at the gym I had not one but two weight slamming idiots at once. If you are not familiar with this phenomenon, it is when somebody gets done with a barbell exercise and instead of returning the weight to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My traps were very sore today. I am not sure if it was the wall handstands or seated shoulder shrugs that caused it but if I had to guess it was the latter. Unlike Wednesday, I worked through the pain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things went better in today’s workout than yesterday when I basically quit in the middle of it due to all sorts aggravating pain. I think I was aided today that most of the shoulder and back exercises were pulling instead […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I knew I felt sore going into today’s scheduled arm day. My lower body was hurting from my doing more lower body leg work than I had been yesterday. My upper body had some pretty severe second day soreness […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to do a conventional lower body weight workout today instead of a run/ride brick. It just felt like a better option for me this week. I got a late start anyway so I wouldn’t have the time to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I worked myself into the ground on Friday trimming all the trees on my property. I went into to today’s benching session still feeling side effects from the very hard labor. I was surprised to still get 225 pounds off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…