Today’s workout called for seven sets of one deadlift, aiming to find out max lift. Unfortunately, I don’t have an Olympic weight set at my house, so I had to use this one as a supplemental to practice my form on the deadlift with dumbbells and kettlebells. Since I have seven sets of dumbbells and […]
Today, Ozreiousn, her friend Adam, and I wandered into the Santa Cruz Mountains to hike an epic set of trails in a loop more than ten miles long. We started out fairly early, coffeed up, and headed up into the mountains. Our destination: Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the oldest state park in California, full […]
Today’s workout was a choice of two “girls”: Cindy or Mary. I picked Cindy. Cindy is the name of a workout (CrossFit workouts are named for girls or soldiers killed in combat) that consists of doing rounds of five pullups, ten pushups, and fifteen air squats against a timer set for twenty minutes. As many […]
I am 20.5 pounds lighter today than I was 64 days ago. I’m making progress. I now have 10.5 pounds to my goal of 165 pounds. I’m also working on increasing my overall fitness level by an exponent. I’ve been walking back and forth to the train station to work (I got a new job […]
Today’s workout was a timed exercise: Do as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of a 400 meter run, followed by as many pullups as possible. Right now, as I work on my upper body strength, I’m subbing jumping negative pullups for the real deal. Instead of pushing super hard with residual soreness in […]
Today’s workout is really simple. Run 5 km for time. It’s been years since I ran any such distance. Usually, when I’m running, which has been less often lately than it was a month ago, I do two miles. I decided to go for the whole distance in one kick. My goal was to keep […]
Today’s workout called for five rounds for time of: 95 pound sumo deadlift high pulls (15 reps) and 95 pound thrusters (15 reps). I’ve been working at 45%, so I’m using 20 pound dumbbells today (for 40 pounds total). Sunday’s pullups and dips were quite brutal on my weak soft body. In fact, the hardest […]
Today’s workout called for 30 muscle ups. A muscle up is an exercise where you false grip a pair of gymnastic rings, pull your body up and over the rings until you’re on your hands in dip position. Oh, there is no way I can do that. Watching videos of that is hard enough. The […]
This morning, I headed up to Castle Rock State Park with Ozreiousn. She’d never been up there before, but I have. So, off we headed, once I laced up my boots. It was a little cloudy at the Saratoga Gap and, in fact, it drizzled on us a little near the end of our hike. […]
Today’s workout, named “Isabel”, was fairly simple: Do 30 reps of 135 pound snatches. Lacking an Olympic weight set, like yesterday, I opted to use my 30 pound dumbbell and follow the example of a video entitled “Dumbbell Snatch tri-panel.” So, let’s go for 15 on each side. Rep 1: 30 pounds, left side. Uh, […]
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