I always come home bitching about this one personal trainer at the gym, because I think her workouts wouldn’t challenge an 80-year-old alcoholic with osteoporosis on dialysis. And the wives FLOCK TO HER. Every day I see her in there doing something like the tricep machine with a chick who looks like a tomato on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘weightlifting’
21 days until I drive to New York.
Keeping in mind that the weight is low because it was the first time I tried it, I did this workout yesterday:
Front Squat/Push Press – 65lbs, 2 Sets / 10 Reps / 75 seconds rest (basically, this is a front squat, but when you are on your way back up, you jump up onto your [...]
Stern Lecture Plumbing
I found some notes in my gym notebook (mostly for tracking workouts, recording progress, etc) about something I can’t believe I was thinking about while working out. Most of the stuff I jot down I don’t even remember thinking about/noticing/bothering to record. I was comparing some words my father had said years ago about men on [...]
lecture.
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I will start by saying that I have been “trying to eat right” and “exercising” since I was 16. I have always been in or around 5′9″ and 185lbs. I was, at one point, 215lbs (or more, I refused to look at a scale), and I am currently 165lbs, which is the healthiest, [...]
discount plywood
National Geographic posted this article about the fifty best places to live.
I would like to note that San Francisco is sixth! Yay. Also, why is Girdwood on there? Since when does anyone care about Alaska? I’ve been there, and I didn’t see anything but a ski resort. Huh?
Not to mention that the people who live in [...]
dead weight
Today I added Hang Cleans and Deadlifts to my back day, and felt my metabolism scream alive. Even with an uncharacteristically low weight (to get used to doing them properly), every muscle in my body is in debilitating agony. Oddly, my hands and traps are the worst part. By the end I could barely lift my water [...]
