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…
I finally brought my phone to the gym per Jeremy’s request to document my current squat and deadlift levels. The form in there isn’t great but it isn’t horrid either. There is a reason you don’t see many giraffes squatting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had what felt like my best intensity at the gym in quite awhile today. I pulled 375 pounds off the floor for the first time in months and got two deep squat reps at 225lbs. Yes I realize the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So my lower back and legs were feeling rather tight and sore from my treadmill 5k yesterday. I was considering that as an excuse to bypass squats and dead lifts but after reading IronLoo’s inspirational post this morning I discarded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I did my heaviest dead lifting in quite awhile, pulling 375 off the ground with more back than I would like. No matter how much I try to focus on keeping things tight at higher weight numbers it seems […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My buddy IronLoo is a HUGE fan of farmer walks. A farmer walk is when you are basically carrying a heavy object in each hand and walk with it, like a farmer would lug something. Lou has encouraged me to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was squat and DL day. Once again with my squats I tried to emphasize getting as deep as my hips and knees will allow me to go. It’s not unusual that when I do this, weight that feels lighter […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today at the Gym – Mr Momentum. There was a younger guy in there that used tremendous momentum in every exercise he did, shrugs, bent over rows, you name it, he threw it. You could tell he really thought he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was the first Tuesday in awhile where I didn’t have any contention for the squat rack at the gym. My squat numbers were weak but I also was trying to go deeper than ever before, trying to utilize the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Squats have been noticeably absent from DL/Squat Wednesdays for quite awhile. Some of it was because of knee and leg issues that made the movement feel very uncomfortable. Some of it was from my emphasis on deadlifting in recent months. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
