Today’s workout was out of my reach once again since I don’t have an Olympic weight set. It was to do five sets of five reps of the front squat, for max load. The best I have are a pair of thirty pound dumbbells. So, I put together a variation that included ten rounds of […]
Oooh, did you feel that? It shook my entire house. I had just finished making my ravioli, carrying it to my coffee table, and starting a movie when the rumble started. It looks like the USGS has the earthquake information. 5.6 on the Richter Scale. That’ll get the blood pumping. No damage at my house. […]
Today’s workout was pretty simple, but the time got away from me quickly. It required ramping sets of pullups. I’m still doing assisted pullups, since I’m not yet strong enough to do more than one pullup and I’m not coordinated enough to kip. Our instructions were simple—start a clock and do one pullup the first […]
Two years ago today, I suffered a serious injury at the hands of a negligent driver while I was riding a metric century on my bicycle. Nearly a year later, I was on the ground again. One year ago today, I rode the most recent mile I’ve ridden. After four crashes in four subsequent years, […]
Today’s workout was quite a doozy. It involved two exercises that I either don’t have the skill to do (handstand pushups) or the equipment (ring dips). So, I had to completely swap out two of the movements for something I can do. Without further ado, here’s what I did this evening. For time: 50 parallette […]
Today’s workout was relatively simple—ten one-rep for max sets of cleans. Unfortunately, I still don’t have an Olympic weight set. So, I decided to do a tapered round of ten sets of dumbbell cleans with the 30 pound dumbbells (so, 55 cleans — 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 rep […]
Today’s workout is one I’ve done before. We’re spending half an hour with Michael this evening. This time, we’re doing the whole shebang. Michael Three rounds for time: 800 meter run50 back extensions (standing, weighted with 30# dumbbell)50 situps I was pretty slow. My running legs were faster this time around, but I’m 15 pounds […]
This morning, I got on the scale as I do every day and noticed the number: 165.5. As of this morning, I am lighter by 30½ pounds than I was just three months ago. I have another little bit to go and a long way to go until I’m in the kind of shape I’m […]
Today’s workout was pretty simple, but quite difficult. Dubbed “Tabata Something Else”, this tabata workout involved four exercises—pullups, pushups, situps, and squats. A tabata is where you do a particular exercise for 20 seconds, then rest for ten. Since I don’t have a timekeeper partner, I downloaded a song for the purpose, loaded it onto […]
Today’s workout is called “Lynne.” Since I lacked a barbell, I got to come up with two extra exercises to compensate for the lightness of the weight portion of the workout. Here’s the assigned work for today: Five rounds for max reps of: Bodyweight bench pressesPullups So, after dinner, I took my thirty pound dumbbells […]
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