This morning’s workout I focused again on pushing my maximum. I haven’t set a new 1RM in the last two weeks. In fact, I was going down just a bit. I took two weeks to move lighter weights, faster, for a few reps. Change it up a bit. It seems to have paid off.
Superset Overhead [...]
There is a gentleman here at work who sits near me. He’s not on my team. I don’t even really know what he does. Just by ‘random’ coincidence, we ended up sitting in cubes near each other.
We’ll call him “MC”.
MC appears to be ‘the guy’ on the team. His teammates are constantly coming to his [...]
I started out with a little something inspired by an email from JB a week or so ago.
3x
250m erg @ ~1:30-1:40/500m pace
40x (20x ea. hand) 16kg KB snatches
Moving as quickly as possible from rowing machine to kettlebell and back. This was a killer.
I started to fall apart about 150m into my last row. My last [...]
This morning’s workout was pretty regular.
5x
5x Clean & Push Press @ 125#
10x Pull ups/Chin ups @ BW
5×5 @ 205#
Zercher Squats (to the ground every rep)
Romanian Deadlifts
The YMCA at which I workout - probably like most places - isn’t so big on the free weights. There is a basketball court gymnasium and a pool.
There is a [...]
Stepped outside today to a 50°F morning. Beautiful. The high today is supposed to be in the low 70s. I love this weather.
It’s full of memories. I hear some people associate memories with smells. I do that a bit, but it seems that temperatures trigger memories with me way more than any other sensory stimulus.
This [...]
I’ve been feeling bored and a little run down recently, so I tried something new yesterday morning.
I remember reading something like this several months ago. I couldn’t remember the specifics, so I just kinda filled in the details as I went.
Start with a 45# bar. Clean it, then press it overhead 5x. Add 10#, repeat. [...]
Well, as the title suggests, the only remarkable thing about this morning was I hit a 150# OHS and I did some more work on my cleans…and they still suck.
Without further ado:
OHS
5x @ 75#
4x @ 100#
3x @ 120#
2x @ 135#
1x @ 140#
1x @ 145#
1x @ 150#
3×3 @ 125#
The 145# was a new PR, and normally [...]
I was looking for Wikipedia’s page on Rapid Application Development and somehow ended up on the Rad page instead.
I’d kinda half-forgotten about that movie. It was a favorite in my kid-hood. Our family was one of the first to move into this new neighborhood, around the time that movie came out. There were lots of [...]