I felt off from my three day weekend that was filled pretty much exclusively with labor. Cindy and I built a 10′ x 8′ raised platform and then a shed on top of the platform which is going to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today at lunch instead of working out I popped into Planet Fitness, the same gym I left and swore I would never step foot back into over 5 years ago. The horrid commute to the Wellness Center during season […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday at the gym I tried out my new Eagle Loops, one of my Christmas gifts. It’s a very simple but effective training aid, designed to help build hand/grip/finger strength. I actually mistakenly received two sets due to an Amazon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bought my girlfriend a slack line for Xmas. I set it up over the weekend and we both tried it out. I was pretty miserable at it, unable to take more than a step or two before falling off. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night after work I saw I had a box leaning against my front door, I was excited to see my Shamrock Triple Gym had arrived. I saw the Triple Gym in a banner ad on YouTube last week. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I forgot to mention that I finally got around to making some stability improvements to the parallelettes that Lou so kindly sent to me. The bars are attached to the 4×4 base sections using a small flange that is inserted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the weekend I decided to hit the bars briefly. First up I tried doing the one arm dead hang challenge utilizing some new Under Armour gloves I picked up at the outlet. They are incredibly sticky so I thought […] ↓ 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…
So today I decided to pull out my dip belt. It had been collecting dust for several weeks since I tweaked my shoulder. I alternated between doing weighted dips and pull ups. For dips my sets went like this: 20 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Late last week at the gym I managed to hurt myself. I was doing slow negative handstand push ups while on top of push up handles. The different hand position and extra height from being on the handles made the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
