Today the gym was very full, probably the fullest I have ever seen the Wellness Center since joining. My theory was the snowbirds that migrate for the holidays are now arriving in mass. There were a LOT of faces in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Saturday I finally got back onto the 1000 pull ups on video bandwagon. I started off trying to max out my single set reps. I chalked up my hands and bar and managed to squeeze out 23 pull up […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Although overall I am happy with my switch to the Wellness Center there are definitely some cons to working out there. These are becoming more glaring as snowbird season is now here. Since the gym is located right by downtown […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So one thing the Wellness Center does not have is good pull up equipment. The choices are a lame power tower or moving the smith machine bar to it’s highest setting which is still way too low for good form […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was just a mix of mostly core work. I did 3 sets of dragon flags as part of the workout. On my first set I only did 3 because my upper body was slipping on the damn plastic flooring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today at the gym I witnessed one of those guys that took exercise creativity a bit too far ,where it crosses over into the kingdom of sillyness. He was in front of a cable machine with a handle grip on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I am still having pain in my right shoulder doing pushing movements which I source to my foray into decline bench press last week. I think I did something relatively serious which for now I am going to just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I wanted to start my workout with a set of 50 push ups, something I haven’t done in quite awhile. Well as soon as I started I was getting a shooting pain down my right shoulder so I bailed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So to give my nether regions a break I decided to do a totally different brick at the gym today, row/ride. Bill, a friend of mine from the running club swears by rowers. He can knock out 15,000 meter sessions […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today at the gym was lower body day. My upper body is quite sore from my pressing workout yesterday. On my main blog I talked about some side effects I seem to have when I am doing exercises that are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
