100 Burpee* Challenge

Elsewhere, a friend mused aloud the other day what doing 100 burpees for time would be like, other than a metric bowl of suck. Not wanting to re-strain my back with squats (as it’s de-load week of 5/3/1 anyway, giving the bar an almost entire miss seemed advisable), this percolated back up to my consciousness, [...]

Ow.

Blue X is the site of the discomfort… just on the left, rather than the right.  Yep, this is why I’m not a graphic designer.

[WotD] Thursday, February 25 – “Ow, F*ck!”

5/3/1 – Deadlift Day, Week 3 The plan was to do doubles all the way up the tree, rather than singles. Unfortunately, the back wasn’t quite restored from the twinge on Sunday. Warmup: Deadlift: 1×15 @ 115 / 1×10 @ 135 / 1×5 @ 205 / 1×5 @ 255 Shrugs: 1×15 @ 115 Work Sets: [...]

Assorted early-week evils

Monday at boot camp was the unfortunate phrase, “I want you to hit me Go as hard as you can.” The event in question was (hold on, pulling up Google Maps to get a semi-exact measurement)… a 200 meter sprint. Four times. That I was far faster than anyone else in the group was not [...]

[WotD] Sunday, February 21

5/3/1 – Bench Press (week 2) / Squat (week 3) So, having given yesterday a miss for bench day, doubled up this afternoon.

[WotD] Thursday, February 18

5/3/1 – Deadlifts – Week 2 Long goddamned day at the office, which didn’t end until well after closing time, and was pretty damn busy throughout. Reading the T-Nat article from earlier in the day and going, “yep, yep, yep” to pretty much every single item on that checklist didn’t exactly fill me with joy, [...]

Not an Average Joe

I have no idea how long the page Joe Stack, the guy who intentionally crashed his plane into the Austin IRS building earlier today, is apt to remain up, but, having read it, I found it all too easy to agree with many of the points he made, if not the exclamation point he chose [...]

[WotD] Tuesday, February 16

5/3/1 – Overhead Press – Week 2 Had nothing whatsoever in the tank after a long day of work and a crappy night’s sleep. Could barely hold the bar well at the heavier weights, so once I got it locked out before beginning, I was having to hold it up there for quite a while [...]

[WotD] Sunday, February 14

5/3/1 – Squats – Week 2 I’m sure it comes as a tremendous surprise to learn that K and I aren’t exactly ga-ga over Valentine’s Day. I made her coffee, she made me chili. Then I taught her how to do back squats. Maybe both of our participation in that falls under the “labor of [...]

[WotD] Saturday, February 13

5/3/1 – Bench Press – Week 1 A bit chilly in the garage, so it took some doing to warm the bar up, but I had help – K came out to give it a try, so I had an opportunity to play spotter/trainer/coach/cheerleader. This was a big step, and I’m glad it finally happened. [...]