Going to Eleven

So, my overall theme for the year, “I can do better,” has finally started to bear more fruit. Some of it was expected, some of it is coming as a pleasant surprise, but pretty much all of it is welcomed.

CWC 2011

Here’s the list of events (weather permitting): • Pullups • Pushups • Situps • Medicine Ball Toss • Standing Long Jump • 50 Yard Dash • 1 Mile Run Note: We will not be doing thumb-extension presses as part of the new regime. As you can see, we’re taking things up a notch for 2011, [...]

Coworker Challenge XV

Let me just say that trying to do this on the back-end of Con*Crud and four weeks after breaking my damn hand was not the most fun I’ve ever had. I took a pass on the pushups because bending my hand backwards puts pressure on what we suspect is a sprained pinkie/wrist combo platter; I [...]

[WotD] Wednesday, August 11

At lunch, I did something kind of like a blend of uber-noob parkour, play, and dog emulation. I went out on the one-mile loop, and after a two minute warmup run, spotted someone walking their dog without a leash, so I tried to do what the dog did before they went home – bolting, stopping, [...]

Coworker Challenge XIV

Some new faces this month to join in the fun and games*. * Note: Neither fun nor games were actually involved.

Two By Two

Nothing whatsoever to do with Noah’s Ark. Continuing the exploration of the edges of my personal envelope in the form of 2 rep maxes. Today was Overhead Press and Squats. Overall results were somewhat mixed, but held some surprises.

Double Down Deads

In the spirit of fair play (and morbid curiosity), since I’d made Code Monkey explore the edges of his personal envelope in the form of two-rep maxes in the Big Four, I headed towards one of them myself today. Once I’d warmed up, it was sets of three, then sets of two until failure seemed [...]

Maneater, revisited

In the course of reviewing the archives in the interest of gauging my progress, I rediscovered some of the eccentric and challenging things that people threw at the wall, or I stumbled across, and subsequently tried. Today, being more or less a hole in my schedule (no softball tonight, official lifting yesterday and tomorrow), it [...]

Lagniappe

I’m going to quote one of my other blogs for a moment here. Lagniappe: A small gift given to a customer by a merchant. Basically, “a little something extra.” Cheap Philosophy: The extra mile is always paved with broken glass, and it’s full of potholes. In that context, I was bitching, but it occurred to [...]

Coworker Challenge XIII

Another well-attended go-round this month, with a bit of old school returning – back to the two minute squat event, instead of the 50 squat-thrust race. There was general mutiny at the suggestion of doing 50 burpees with a pushup at the bottom.