Nemesis

“I’m an easy thing to hurt yourself against.” – Uisgebaugh, Blood and Iron (Elizabeth Bear) I joke with an old friend (that is, a friend of long acquaintance, not one of advanced years. She is STILL twenty-nine, some-fucking-how) about being her “sexy nemesis,” because I don’t pull any rhetorical punches in our friendship, and gleefully [...]

Mocking the Stupid

Now, I could be coy, and play nice, and suggest that I understand the point of view espoused by Kent R. Rieske, B.Sc., and Bible Life Ministries. But I won’t, because the man is simply a fucking idiot. Actually, I don’t believe I’m stating that point strongly enough. However, I’m not going to resort to large fonts [...]

Not quite getting the hang of a Thursday*

15/9/3+ Overhead Press While being terribly, frustratingly busy at the office is good for taking a late lunch (and, even at 3pm, there were folks in the office gym, somewhat surprisingly), it didn’t make for a particularly thrilling workout  - half an hour on the fairly-evil “cross country” program on the Precor elliptical. After work, [...]

[WotD] Monday, June 28 – Squats

15/9/3+ : Squat Day (finally!) Lunch was the usual mixed session of elliptical (22min), pullups (2×12), and stretching (OHS, front levers, and some leg curls/extensions on the machines). Warmup: Squats: 2×10 @ 45 / 1×10 @ 95 / 1×8 @ 115 Front Squat: 1×10 @ 45 (between the regulars @ 45) Work Sets: Squat: 3×5 [...]

[WotD] Sunday, May 2

15/9/3+ Bench Press Day The last of the new toys arrived – a pair of Fat Gripz. Since, as has been detailed previously (and repeatedly), my grip in particular and my forearms in general are the lagging weak points in a lot of my work, these seemed like a no-brainer when EliteFTS had them on [...]

“Perfect” Pushups

It’s entertaining, to me, to see the enthusiasm of the FNG when it comes to attacking the pair of Perfect Pushup handles that inhabit the empty cubicle in our terrarium. I’m not sure if the combination of his guilt-tripping, combined with my encouragement/abuse, is what’s finally gotten the other dude here into banging out a [...]

In other news, I still hate overhead presses

15/9/3+  Overhead Press Day It was weigh-in day for my company’s weight-loss challenge, and while my team didn’t place in the money, all three of us lost a few pounds (I was down about nine, the other guys, being slightly bigger, lost a bit more). Maybe all of my bitching about the rampant inaccuracy of [...]

Review: Under the Bar

Under the Bar – Twelve lessons of life from the world of powerlifting – Dave Tate (published by EliteFTS) [this is the draft of a review tentatively solicited by Interesting Times Magazine, for their forthcoming 5th issue]

Ikea for Metalheads

After a couple of weeks of anticipation, my new toy arrived yesterday. Knowing that was coming, and that I had a personal day that had to be used before the end of the month, today was the perfect opportunity to take the day off to put that sucker together. After, of course, cleaning some of [...]

Boot to the Dead

Today was the final session of boot camp, so the students got their exit exam as a way to gauge their progress. Of course, since I got lost and couldn’t find it on the first day, I didn’t have any numbers to compare against. Conveniently enough, however, a couple of the metrics bear a passing [...]