Today I incorporated another type of “dead” exercise into my workout in addition to dead lifts that I hit once in awhile, dead hang pull ups. When I am going for a 1 set max amount of pull ups I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was bicep and tricep day. There just is never much exciting to say during these sessions but I keep trying to make small progressions in whatever movement I choose from week to week. Today’s Workout 5 minutes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a weekend that was filled with a lot of home labor, enough that I didn’t even feel up to running or riding yesterday. I didn’t have very high goals going into chest day at the gym. I was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
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…
