Today I upped my pace slightly on the treadmill portion of my brick to 6.7 mph. The .1 mph speed increase dropped my per mile pace below the 9 minute mark to 8:57. The last 2 minutes of the run […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wellness Center has an interesting squat machine that I wanted to try out. It is named the “Freemotion”. Since today was squat/dl day I figured it was good as time as any, especially since some gym novice was again […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today was the first time I ever benched at the Wellness Center. The bench press rigs they have are also the TechnoGym variety. I wasn’t nuts about their configuration. First the bench surface isn’t a bench at all. Instead […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I continued my exploration of the Wellness center. Again I found some positives and not so positives. On the negative side, I am disappointed they don’t have many good places to do pull ups. The two options are an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as I am programmed to do, I am making my longer, more traffic filled drive to the new gym as efficient as possible. I have already identified the ideal traffic lanes to slide into to make the drive as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So day 2 at the new gym was my first time hitting their cardio equipment. The treadmills definitely are nicer than what I was accustomed to at Royal Fitness. The TechnoGym treadmills have a nice touch video screen that allows […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So once again at the gym today some genius decided to turn the place into a dance club although the volume level was slightly lower than last time when I had to complain. I didn’t complain this time, instead I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I rolled with a push pull combo, making the meat of my workout alternating sets of 185lb bench x reps supersetted with sets of 10 pull ups. It felt like a well balanced upper body effort. Today’s Workout 5 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was out of town for a few days up in PA. While I was up there I didn’t have much time for organized exercise. I spent about 30 minutes in a hotel gym where the highlight was doing the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After sticking to safe cardio the last two days at the gym due to back pain, I awoke today feeling better. The lower back pain was gone and I only felt some mild discomfort in my upper back where I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
