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 I decided to try some hex bar deadlifting instead of straight bar. With the hex bar there are a couple advantages. You are centered with the weight instead of it being in front of you. With a tall, […] ↓ 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…
I have been trying to include a decent amount of 1RM max movements or max rep sets into my workouts to help build power and endurance. Today the target was weighted dips where I topped out with a rep with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I had a rare occurrence where I am pretty sure I matched my all time best in the squat press machine with six big plates on each side garnished with opposing 25 pounders as well. The total weight should […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
