So my fall off the slackline has left my right knee rather swollen. Last night at home I was walking around with a very pronounced limp. Before bed I took two Advil, hoping those and a nights rest with the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
13,000 pounds is approximately the weight of a full grown T-Rex. It’s heavier than the weight of an adult elephant and about 3.5 times the weight of an average sized automobile. It is also the total amount of weight in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was squat / DL day with a very large emphasis on the DL. My body just does not feel good squatting. After 10 reps at 135 and five at 185 I tapped out. I was feeling pain in my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So last week was an odd one for me exercise-wise because I was doing at home training, meaning all of my workouts occurred in the back yard. I didn’t have time to post them here but I did make videos […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night was another BB challenge attempt. I did a pretty good job on my pull up Xmas tree. Today was an abnormal Wednesday at the gym for me. I wound up skipping squats because some dummy was doing 100 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My right knee is still swollen from my 10K run on Saturday unfortunately so squatting was out of the picture this week. I still wanted to try to do deadlifting since the movement doesn’t require as much bending of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I managed to sneak in a quick 5 rep deadlifting PR today, getting 325 pounds off the floor 5 times in 3 different sets. Yay. All three sets I did the first 4 reps consecutively and then had to regrip […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again when I did squats I felt an odd, but less prominent sensation on the upper back of my left leg. It kept my squat reps ridiculously small but I didn’t really care. Dead lifts are the star of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I haven’t done any squatting or deadlifts for going on three weeks since I skipped them the week prior to the Tough Mudder and once again the week after because of Mudder injuries. I didn’t really know what to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again this week I went for a deadlifting PR, just not the one rep max variety. I added 5 pounds to the six 45 pound plates on the Olympic Bar, for a total of 320 pounds. Like last week […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
