I have been a bit MIA for the past week since I had family down visiting. I still got some work in, running 7 miles with my brother Patrick and his girlfriend. Pat also was my body weight work out […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I started my Monday work out with a GUTS set. Once again I had a less than inspiring effort. I cut the dip and push up sets at the point where I would be doing single reps with extended […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl2eC1BMiuA I took my first crack at the 5150, 150 reps in 5 minutes challenge last night. It was tough, maybe even a little tougher than I expected. I tried this once before, instead seeing how long it would take […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has probably been the roughest month of all to judge the Bar-barian forum competition. It was rough for a couple reasons. The challenges were all 5 set max rep exercises. In some attempts there were as many as 200 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had some ideas of trying Lee’s 20 by 12 circuit this weekend when Randall was here. Unfortunately after doing 20 miles on my road bike followed by 17 miles on my mountain bike I had no energy left to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a busy fitness weekend. Saturday morning I set a PR for the 10 mile running distance covering it at an 8:42 per mile pace. This really makes me hopeful that I can hit my sub-two hour half marathon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I went back after my GUTS routine today at the gym. I had a one day hiatus since I needed all of my gym time yesterday to complete my squat/running duo. I figured the day off would give the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have read about the 5 minute warm up that some of the Bar-barians do, including Zef. Zef’s “warm ups” make me laugh because when I try them I wind up feeling spent, not warmed up. 🙂 So anyway the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my 2012 fitness goals is to be able to complete the BBR’s (Bar-barian Requirements) The requirements are as follows: 5 muscle ups 45 body weight dips 25 pull ups 55 push ups 5 muscle ups The sets need […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
