[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 [...]

15/9/3+ Mysterious Overhead

Okay, not all that mysterious – hello to the influx of folks wondering who the loquacious but suspiciously buff dude intruding over at wow.com is. Yeah, hi. This is the shit you won’t see me inflicting on anyone except the masochists who want to keep up. Feel free to peruse the archives. Today was overhead [...]

[WotD] Thursday, February 4

It’s not that I haven’t been doing anything, it’s that I haven’t been doing anything interesting. Two miles of intervals in my Vibram Five Fingers? Pullups? Cable Rows?

Yeah, that’s what I figured.

Infliction

So, in the spirit of “Do Unto Others,” I joined Mike for the upper-body portion of that routine today. It is, in a nutshell, 45 minutes of suck.

Seals and Swings

Over at ShrinkGeek, for those of you who don’t frequent it, is something based on an item that one of the non-coworkers who does the CWC pointed out to me – the Navy SEALs’ physical requirements standards. I’m pretty sure I could make it (the swimming, I dunno; I haven’t swum in a long time). [...]

Byline: I’m doing it right

So, Mike did the other half of the workout I posted yesterday at lunch. He walked back into the office, and the first words out of his mouth were, “I hate you. I may not be able to get up once I sit down.” I’ll call that a sign of a good workout.

Do Unto Others…

So, the other day, Mike said he felt like he’d hit the muscle-building wall with his current routine, and could I come up with something he could do at our office gym, that wouldn’t interfere with his running 3x+ a week, and could be done during lunch. Unfortunately… yes, yes I could. In the fine [...]

Why So Serious?

Maybe I shouldn’t quote a movie I haven’t seen yet, but, enh. Apparently “shiny” is from Firefly, but I’ve said that, too, and think Joss Whedon is completely overrated. A regular reader pointed out that there has been a rather marked lack of…. anything, really… around here of late. I have been slack and remiss [...]

[WotD] Monday, December 28

Miscellaneous goofing around today. It was a long damn day at the office (tomorrow will be similarly short-staffed, but hopefully less exciting). In the way of good excitement, however, ShrinkGeek is getting a facelift for the new year, along with a bunch of cool new shit. Pushups: 9×45 Pullups: 4×12 Medicine Ball foam rolling: 20 [...]

A Year of Digi-Disc Rev. 2.0

So, it’s time to do one of those retrospective, introspective, year-that-was kind of things, I guess. Some things I may or may not have learned this year, in no particular order: