Today is my normal core focused workout. There was a good amount of direct (ab wheel, hanging knee raises) and indirect (push ups) core exercise. However I also included a lot of sets of pull ups in between. My first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Last night I wanted to try to equal or better my one set pull up rep max of 30 that I set a few months ago. I started off pretty strong but developed a bad swing during the first 10 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I started having a problem with my left wrist maybe 3-4 weeks ago. It felt like jammed/sprained it although I don’t recall a particular moment when I hurt it. I sort of have ignored it and continued my normal routine. […] ↓ 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…
Getting “bigger”?
For a very long time my body weight was hanging down right at the 170 mark, even dipping into the 160’s if I would weigh myself in the morning. I liked keeping my body weight low because in my head, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So last Friday I pulled out my dip belt to do some weighted pull ups and dips. I decided to try to set a new PR for weighted dips for the second consecutive week, hanging 115 pounds around my waist. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today I tried bumping up the reps on my RW ladder by 1 across the board meaning the goal was to complete 5 rounds of 19 dips, 9 pull ups and 24 push ups. The Cliff Notes version is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So yesterday I made my second attempt at the program I have now named “Ray’s Way” (I like to name things). The way it works is once you successfully complete all 5 rounds at certain rep numbers twice, you then […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM5eJDs9V9A Last night after seeing Lou’s Atlasthenics video which was filled with unconventional exercise like lugging a huge atlas stone around, I was inspired to do my own unconventional workout, the Death Crawl. I tried the Death Crawl once before […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So before I hurt myself a couple weeks ago, I tried Ray’s routine which was loosely based upon my GUTS mini-workout. Ray turned it into 5 rounds of fun. Each work round is three minutes long where you do a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…