I have talked several times about how my strength seems to mysteriously go up and down for no apparent reason. Well it seems like I am at one of those apex points right now. During smith bench press today I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as is often the case at Planet Frustration, the three smith machines were tied up making my buddy and my plan for bench press invalid. We decided to go with dumbbell chest press instead but neither of us were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today I again added to my personal best at smith machine decline bench press. I scratched out a rep with another 10 pounds on the bar which translates to roughly 260 pounds of real world weight. I am not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Today was my first day back at the gym in half a month. I was back home in frozen PA for several days to visit my family. I then was in Miami this past weekend for Cindy’s brother’s wedding. During […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I returned to the gym for the first time in around 10 days, totally expecting to continue the strength deficit I have been experiencing ever since my weird ear pop several months ago. Of the last three weeks, I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I decided to jump back into endurance training with a gym brick of 20 minutes of running on the treadmill with a chaser of 10 minutes of riding a stationary bike. I have not done this since I came […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You may recall that under the prior gym ownership they brought a trainer in there that went by the name Renegade. He sort of looked the part as he wore almost exclusively plaid button down shirts (mostly unbuttoned) with the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing all that exciting to report from bicep and tricep day other than I got things started with a set of 20 pull ups. My strength felt decent but my lower body is killing me from my PB squat totals […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I am back from our nearly two week Western Road trip. My picture posing move of the trip was the elbow planche which I did in various scenic locations. I had hoped to do a lot more pull ups […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
