I had some tough exercises mixed in today with one arm wall handstand holds and heavy T-bar rows topping the list. It feels good to be ramping up numbers at the gym recently instead of the steady tail spin I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of what I talk about here is exercise related, moves, reps, holds that are all part of my diverse fitness routine. The one thing I don’t talk about much is nutrition and diets. Nutrition in the fitness community is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My fitness routine certainly is diverse if nothing else. Over the weekend I did my own personal triathlon, bundling a 4 mile run, 12.25 mile bike ride and a 1000 yard swim together. It added up to almost 1:45 in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I went in to today’s Ray’s Way attempt still feeling fat and lethargic from too much drinking and eating at last night’s fantasy football draft. However I also was pissed off from being such a glutton. I was pretty […] ↓ 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…
So I did a normal mode set for this month’s BB challenge which is a series of increasingly difficult push up variations. I was doing ok until I got to the last set which are fingertip push ups. I had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last night I filmed an intro video for the March Bar-barian forum challenge, “Maximum Fatigue”. The challenge involves pre-fatiguing your muscles before trying a max rep set of several exercises. I was surprised how much of a difference it made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I noticed when I was reviewing my main blog post from last year on this date that I had allowed my weight to bounce up as high as 190 pounds. I found it odd that this weight gain came while […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite my outer, workout obsessed appearance I too can suffer from the normal ebbs and flows of motivation. My last two GUTS efforts were sub-par, I mentally just was not that into it. I also have found it tough to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So this past weekend my wife and I started messing around with our juicer. We tried several vegetable and fruit juice combinations. For the most part they were pretty good. I made the mistake of adding a large chunk of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
