So I was doing squats today at the gym. Generally speaking, I am lousy at squatting. My stretch armstrong dimensions makes the movement tough for me. As a result my squat numbers are generally very low. I do the exercise […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have had some pretty chronic pain in both of my shoulders for quite a few months. They basically are sore all the time, especially when I am raising my arms above shoulder height. To be honest I never gave […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did another 50/100 set before my normal gym workout and I knocked over 90 seconds off my time from Tuesday. (6:26) It really makes me think I inadvertently did extra reps on Tuesday, it isn’t normal to have that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday at the gym my legs actually felt decent enough to do some squats. Considering I almost needed a walker on Monday I was quite happy the rebound my body has made after running the half marathon. Last night after […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I started my Monday work out with a GUTS set. Once again I had a less than inspiring effort. I cut the dip and push up sets at the point where I would be doing single reps with extended […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has probably been the roughest month of all to judge the Bar-barian forum competition. It was rough for a couple reasons. The challenges were all 5 set max rep exercises. In some attempts there were as many as 200 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had some ideas of trying Lee’s 20 by 12 circuit this weekend when Randall was here. Unfortunately after doing 20 miles on my road bike followed by 17 miles on my mountain bike I had no energy left to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I made my second attempt at normal mode of this month’s Bar-barian challenge, a day after posting a clean form but poorly timed hard mode effort. I was worried doing them on consecutive days could present a problem. It turns […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS46lycNzjE One skill I have worked off and on ever since there was a Bar-barian challenge involving it is the one handed static hold with a chin up grip. You basically do a chin up and then release one hand […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One famous strength exercise is the one arm push up. I recall first seeing it in the original Rocky. It is a move that I toyed with maybe once or twice eons ago. A couple months ago one of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
