Tuesday, September 30, 2008
More Wussification
I saw an advertisement yesterday for the newest Trivial Pursuit game…”now with With three different levels of difficulty — easy, medium and hard — everyone has a chance”…presumably, a chance to win.
Ugh. Not everyone deserves a chance to win! It’s Trivial Pursuit, not preschool. It’s for smart people, who know trivia. The people who [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
I tried my hands with the hook grip today on those SGDLs. It hurt like the devil…but my grip was way stronger. I didn’t have to adjust it even one time. I just kept pulling and the bar stayed tight in my hands. Hook Grip, you’ll be seeing more of me.
Workout
Appetizer
10x Overhead Squat @ 45#
8x [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
On my way into work this morning there was nothing good on the radio. I had a fantastic mix CD* in, but have been listening to it for several days. I have a small box of about 15-20 CDs on the rear passenger floorboard of my car. At a stoplight I reached back and grabbed [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
Congratulations to *Biker for winning this year’s Alleycat - a “bike race around town to dollar stores and liquor stores, with pudding and spray paint as the prizes”…even if he is a cheater. =)
Workout
Appetizer
10x Overhead Squat @ 45#
8x Overhead Squat @ 95#
6x Overhead Squat @ 115#
4x Overhead Squat @ 135#
The Main Course
20x “Breathing Squats” @ [...]
Friday, September 19, 2008
*Biker and I have been talking about a potential plan. Codename for now is “The Ghetto Gym”. The idea is to find a small, cheap warehouse space in an industrial sector of town and load it with a couple barbells, 1k# of plates, a squat rack, a few kettlebells, heavy chain, Charlotte, home made medicine [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
This morning was a beautiful 55°F. I was joined by Favorite Drinkin’ Buddy, Marathoner and Parth.
Workout
2x
P1: 400m Sprint
P2: Rest & Time Runner
P3: AMAP Snatches @ 16kg KB
P4: Rest & Count Snatches
My first 400m was not accurately timed for technical reasons. (The timer didn’t press the “Start” button on the watch. Hey! It’s 5:00am, we’re [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sunday morning, Ike came to town and dumped something like 6″ of rain in as many hours. Favorite Drinkin’ Buddy is putting a new addition (…no, not Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and Johnny…) on his house. The yard isn’t graded properly yet so all that rain pooled in all the wrong places - including [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
I’ve been toying with the idea, lately, of following a 6 week cycle of 20 rep breathing squats. I’m not all that interested in drinking a gallon of milk per day. I don’t actually believe that doing barbell pullovers can expand one’s rib cage (regardless, not sure that’s a goal I have). But I do [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
First, this morning saw the first beam of protons circle round the LHC…and Earth still exists! Of course, we still haven’t crashed those protons into each other yet, but I’m looking forward to that day in a big, big way.
Workout
This morning also saw Charlotte, Favorite Drinkin’ Buddy, a fella from work - Parth, and me [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Wow! Slovakia’s women’s ice hockey pummels Bulgaria 82-0