My 45th birthday rolled around Sunday. Of course I had to “celebrate” by undertaking not one but two physical challenges. First up was the tractor pull death crawl. Some of you might recall I did a “regular” 500 foot death […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Less swollen, more reps
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…
Today was my second time doing Rays Way since I decided to just deal with left wrist pain that sidelined me for several weeks. I once again tried to do it at the 19/9/24 level. (dips, pull ups, push ups) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I tried to do a Ray’s Way set today at the gym for the first time in quite awhile, probably a couple months at least. I stopped doing them in an attempt to let my injured left wrist heal. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did training for my upcoming Tough Mudder in a couple ways this weekend. Obviously covering 12 miles by foot requires a certain amount of running endurance. I tried to cover that by putting in over 10 miles on the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Up and then down hard
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…
Last night after work I headed outside to do some work on the bars. The first thing I did was throw my rubber resistance band around the high bar and use it to warm up. When I bought Metins program […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I took a shot at hard mode of the October BB challenge, the one handed dead hang. It was raining outside so I decided to try it on my Iron Gym indoors. Well it was a mistake. Because of my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today at lunch I attempted another self created workout plan based on the pyramid training I mentioned several days ago. With a pyramid set your reps look like this 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2. There is supposed to be practically no rest between […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been a bit neglectful of updating here lately, my last entry was a full 11 days ago. No need to be concerned, I have been working out of course, I actually just have been kind of busy. Since […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…