Regular readers may recall that a month or two ago I had an unfortunate accident on my home parallel bars while doing weighted dips. With 90 pounds hanging from my waist I tried to jump into dip starting position. Well […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My left wrist has been injured for somewhere around 3 months. As a result I cut back a lot on certain exercises including a good portion of Metins program and pushing exercises in general. Well finally the wrist seems to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My right knee which I injured in the Tough Mudder is slowly getting better. The swelling has gone down quite a bit although I still do not have normal flexibility in the joint. It would be cool if I could […] ↓ 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…
One of the challenges of doing calisthenics for me besides trying to always improve is trying to do this without hurting myself. As much as I hate to admit it, I am far from a spring chicken. Parts of me […] ↓ 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…
Saturday I drove across the state to the Barstarzz event in South Beach. It was my first time ever attending a calisthenics group get together. It was a great time. There was so much positive energy on the beach. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been avoiding all pushing exercises for the past week or so, trying to give my left wrist a chance to heal. So far it hasn’t seemed to make much of a difference, the discomfort level seems to be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started having a problem with my left wrist maybe 3-4 weeks ago. It felt like jammed/sprained it although I don’t recall a particular moment when I hurt it. I sort of have ignored it and continued my normal routine. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night I tried a continuous push up set to see what I could manage. Last week I got 50 reps although it wasn’t on video (so it didn’t really happen). In most of our push up challenges on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
