So I completed my third half marathon last weekend, netting a new personal best by roughly 30 seconds. The second half of the race was pretty grueling for me and I struggled. Luckily I was fast enough during the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night after work I decided to head outside to do some work in the bar park. I did this despite some nagging pain in my right shoulder. My shoulders have not been pain free in years, the only thing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My dad flew back to PA yesterday. While he was visiting my exercise/eating patterns were not anywhere close to normal. Last night I tried to start getting things back on track. I first planned to try normal mode of this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am heading out of town for a week starting tomorrow so last night I got some work in at home. I did my first normal mode attempt of this month’s challenge which is maximum push ups in two minutes. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Micke from Barstarzz posted a brief clip of him doing something called a Crucifix Push Up. It gets it’s name from the body position, where you spread your arms very wide and then try to press your body off the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So on Saturday I took on the Tough Mudder for the second time. This year my good buddy Charlie flew down to do the race with me. For those of you unfamiliar with the race, the Tough Mudder is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So Sunday I got the idea in my head that I wanted to set a new pull up personal best. I think it was loosely motivated by Ray L talking about taking down 30 reps at this weeks advanced Bar-barain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I was doing my 10K run on Sunday my mind was wandering. It wandered on to what I thought was good saying for the Bar-barians. When I got home I found an appropriate pic of Zef and came up […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I generally don’t enjoy doing lower body weight work. However I do realize it is an important part of a well rounded fitness plan and in my case beneficial to prevent injury to my twice repaired right knee. One of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A couple weeks ago I tried an all pull up lunch break. I basically got loose and did as many pull ups as I could before I had to head back to work. I had set a goal of 200 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
