Well the gym manager made good on his promise that the gym would be still open today. Things still seemed more or less normal although the newly installed and even more newly removed supplement shop next door was still empty. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So those of you that read my normal blog already know about my latest gym saga. Cindy, who teaches a few classes there, was told Friday that the gym would be closing very shortly, evicted for not paying rent. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had some tough exercises mixed in today with one arm wall handstand holds and heavy T-bar rows topping the list. It feels good to be ramping up numbers at the gym recently instead of the steady tail spin I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the more annoying things you see at a gym are weight hoarders. Those are the people that think it’s no big deal to collect and keep multiple sets of dumbbells/barbells with them. Today was especially bad because there […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week a younger kid started up a conversation with me regarding the Tough Mudder since he saw I was wearing one of the shirts from the three events I did. In addition to the Mudder we talked about triathlons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today for the hardest part of my core work out I decided to do full body ab wheel roll outs. I often do the variety where you stay on your knees instead of your toes. With my gorilla length arms, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today next to the cardio machine I normally warm up on was the older man that I assume has terets. For a brief second I considered warming up on another machine but I decided against it. The guy can’t control […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today as part of my arms day I did barbell curl drop sets, something I have not done for years and years. Basically you start at whatever weight you can get 10 reps at. After those 10 reps you IMMEDIATELY […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To try to stave off the four days of pain I had after squatting two weeks ago with very light weight I got back under the bar today. If you don’t squat regularly you will pay the price always. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I had my strongest decline bench session in memory. The 1RM was 235 but the big numbers were on the way down where I got 225lbs for four and 205lbs for six reps, untapped territory in the decline angle […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
