So as I mentioned yesterday chin ups appear to not aggravate my left forearm the way pull ups do. The change in palm direction must make all the difference. I included sets of chin ups in my back/shoulder focused work […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been awhile since I came up with a new nickname for unique gym goers but today the drought is over, meet the Sweat Brothers. Most gyms have guys like this and they all have a lot of the same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My lower body didn’t feel great, presumably from the marathon tree trimming on Saturday. When I was squatting under heavy load I had weakness in my right side that kept me from doing as well as I would have liked. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This weekend I did zero running or biking but I still managed to burn a ton of calories doing old fashioned hard work. I spent the majority of the day Saturday trimming roughly 25 trees on my property. The task […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So for a few weeks I have been starting my Friday workouts with a max push ups set. My goal has been to try to add +1 rep to that total each week. Up to and including this week I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have left pull ups out of my workouts for 2-3 weeks because of the left forearm discomfort I have been feeling while doing them. Today I reintroduced them via sets of 10 at a time. The first set was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as I was on the cross trainer warming up I heard a horrible loud crash back in the free weight area. It was loud enough that some staff came trotting out to see what happened. My angle of view […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a decent chest session today, once again getting 240lbs off my chest and getting 225lbs x 2, twice on the way down. I found myself getting annoyed at the Retro staff insisting on playing the mostly shitty music […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I incorporated wall planks into my core workout although my position was more horizontal with my hands further in front of my head than these pictures. The 60 second holds got progressively harder and tremor filled as they went […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today for shoulder/back day I did some pseudo farmer walks, using a hex bar instead of conventional farmers walk handles. It lacks the overall effectiveness of a true farmers walk but still requires you to engage many of the same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
