I found myself with a bit of spare time yesterday after work, so what better option than to saddle up the ol’ fixie and head for a spin? I stopped off by the library and returned The 10,000 Year Explosion (a good read, but not quite the ground-breaker I was expecting). Quick interlude — it [...]
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Another workout from the “simple in design, brutal in execution” files. Today I opted for a lower-body push, upper-body pull set-up; tomorrow I’ll switch it up with a lower-body pull, upper-body push. The volume here is relatively low; the intensity, though, is sky-high. Tomorrow’s workout will be followed by 5 or [...]
45 minutes worth of fixie sprints to start this one off today; 17-hours fasted. I stopped off at the library for about an hour, and winded-up leaving with a copy of The 10,000 Year Explosion. I’ve been wanting to read it for some time, now, as I keep seeing anti-Paleo arguments [...]
“Age is mind over matter — if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter” – Mark Twain
A long bout of fixie intervals, some barefooted sprints, and a little bit of iron heavin’. Spring broke in a beautiful way here in eastern NC, so I got out and about and made the most of [...]
Warm-up? Workout? It all depends upon the intensity…
Pushed it pretty damn hard today. Not quite to the point (to quote Robb Wolff) of “seeing white buffalo in the sky” (heh, I love that), but certainly to the point of gasping like a fish flung on the riverbank, and attempting to function on [...]
Yesterday’s fixie romp apparently hit my legs a little harder than what I’d figured, as I had to use slightly lighter weights, and my normal “snap” wasn’t as pronounced. All-in-all, though, still a very productive workout.
Single-Leg Creds*: 50 x 3, 3; 60 x 3, 3, 3
Pistol Squats: 20 lb DBs x 5 each leg for [...]
“…The food industry has found a legal addiction, and they’re playing it for all it’s worth…”
- Robert Lustig, MD; Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF
The above quote was taken from this recent KQED Forum discussion about food addiction. [...]
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Yesterday, in what amounted to quite a departure from my usual explosive-type workouts, I spent three-and-a-half hours in the fixie saddle, terrorizing the downtown streets and greenway trails in and around Raleigh, NC. Why the departure? Well, I don’t [...]
Lead-off this morning’s workout with the following bout of MetCon work:
Barbell Whip Snatch* to full Overhead Squat: 95lbs x 6 reps each round
Reverse-Grip Pull-Ups: 45 x 6; 70 x 6, 6, 6
Weighted Dips: 45 x 7; 70 x 6, 6, 6
Four rounds of that, concentrating on the quality of each exercise’s reps as opposed to [...]
Think the “core” doesn’t have anything to do with the ability to handle heavy push-presses? Try this little combo, then tell me what you think. Also, the heavy push-press here acted as post-activation potentiation for today’s sprints, which felt “effortless” – a really, really cool, gazelle-like, feeling.
Nothing like a good 200 yard farmer’s walk with [...]
