Tin Can Telephones are Where It’s At Last week I was suffering from Post-workout vacation ennui plus birthday celebration overload. It was to hard to try to cram in a week of actual training so I just did cardio…but I didn’t really do a successful job of that because I took Thursday and Friday off. […]
Birthdaypalooza Tuesday, August 22nd * Fat Bar floor presses w/ 1 chain – 8 sets of 6 * KB Snatches w/ 16 KG – 2 per arm at the top of the minute for 15 minutes * Prowler for 1 lap Wednesday, August 23rd * Prowler for 3 laps Thursday, August 24th * Deadlifts with […]
100 Degrees and I am Still Prowlin’ August 20th * Three laps prowler August 19th * Activations with some ab work * Two laps prowler 1 med heavy, 1 no weight, 1walk Reverse Hypers with prototype single leg straps. Very different feel with the separation of straps. For the first couple of sets it changed […]
There’s a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today Training: Thursday, August 17th Deadlifts w/ 225 lbs. sumo. I did 1 rep every 30 seconds for 30 minutes with a bonus of 2 extra reps at the end. So, 62 reps total. I stayed really light because I have not worked my sumo deadlift in […]
Quadzilla Coming to a Theater Near You The end of nothing but cardio week: Thursday, August 10th * 5 laps with the prowler = 1 2/3 miles. Friday, August 11th * 12 laps with the sled with 25 lbs. added (about 80 lbs. total) This weekend was our friend Jacobs funeral. I was pretty rung […]
Somebodies Got to Pay…Or How to Eat a Shit Sandwich “Somebody got to pay.” This is part of a quote from one of my favorite movies ever: Wall Street and it popped into my mind as I started writing this blog. This past week was a tough one for all of us at the gym […]
Wish You Were Here Life throws some shit at you and usually it is all at once. No matter how hard you try to script it, or you try to mold around it, Life still comes at you hard. The wife has written a great blog on our long time friend and gym member, Jacob […]
Are we going to fight or…?????? I am married to my husband and thusly we have a similar and very bizarre sense of humor. This blog is going to be all about my knee and the great question of “is it injured” or “is it not injured”. For some strange reason this made me think […]
The Beating is all how you take it July 25th Activations with plank and bird dogs Prowler 3 laps, 2 with weight and 1 none, walk a lap Leg repair is going well. The light leg work went good with no acute pain, just minor dull pain now. Still hammering the activations. Pretty amazing that […]
Circling the Wagons Our gym is a family. In my case I have been here and known everyone for 17 years. Marc has known our members for 20+ years. The people I see every day at my gym (my job) are very, very important to me and this week has been hard for all of […]
New Training Starts This Week This week starts the next 4 weeks of training: 2 weeks of heavy work and 2 weeks of volume. Here are the highlights so far. Monday 7/24: * Safety Bar squats to a medium box (basically a parallel box with a 1 inch squishy pad on top). 200 lbs. of […]
Occlusion July 22nd * Two laps prowler push * Activations * Reverse Hyper 6×10 * Free squat with duffalo bar and briefs. I have had some single ply metal briefs for many months now, possibly a year plus and have not worn them to train at all. I have been thinking about putting them on […]