…I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth… That’s William Faulkner, whose birthday was Sunday. And who, together with Cormac McCarthy, have produced all the literature I’ll ever really need. All else, while nice enough, is simply superfluous. And speaking of “a hot wild seed in the blind earth”, check out this picture [...]
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My good friend Chris Highcock, of Conditioning Research, (and he by way of Andrew Badenoch, of Evolvify) clued me into the recent Journal of Applied Physiology article, Is sprint exercise a leptin signaling mimetic in human skeletal muscle? I won’t delve into the interesting details of this paper, as Chris has already done a wonderful job of [...]
Since I have no specific athletic or body composition goal in mind — other than chasing the fullest, most well-rounded expression of my phenotype — I’m at liberty to explore, to the widest extent, the speed-strength continuum and the force-velocity curve. In English? I get to dabble with my workouts, mix it up; have fun and [...]
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency – and don’t complain about the heat – C. J. Cherryh Not complaining, just sayin’, you know; 106-degrees F at the time I performed this little sprint routine, on the way to the day’s high of 111. No telling how friggin’ hot it was out [...]
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt True for many aspects in life, but no more so than in the pursuit of a long and successful life in the game of Physical Culture 2.0. And what exactly *is* Physical Culture 2.0? Well, in essence, it’s the fully integrated pursuit of a healthy [...]
I certainly don’t mean this in a derogatory sense — far from it — this is simply the makings of a well-rounded athlete.
There is, of course, a wide range of phenotypical expression among athletes (and weekend warriors), along the explosive-elastic continuum. Swedish sprinter/weightlifter Lena Berntsson is a fine example of a [...]
135 lbs hasn’t felt this heavy in quite some time. I cut down the rest time between exercises here to next to nothing — just long enough to catch a gasp of air — before hitting the next movement. If you look at the time-under-tension of each movement you’ll see that each [...]
“The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
2 miles from my house to the gym offers a perfect opportunity for a short fixie huck/warm-up prior to throwing around a little iron. An odd combination, I know. I was asked recently if I was the only fixie [...]
“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 [...]
Under a work-related time constraint today, so I had to hurry it up a bit. A very simple two-fer MetCon superset to kick things off, then a single-leg thruster/single-leg deadlift superset to finish-up. Not very sexy, I know — but effective? Hell yeah.
Whip Snatch to Overhead Squat: 95 x 6, 6; 115 x 5, 4, [...]
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 [...]
This workout actually took place yesterday (2/20/10), but I wound-up not having a chance to post it due to being tied-up with work issues. The way the day shaped-up created a nice little n=1 study. A tough workout, performed in a fasted state, followed by very little food – how would I hold-up? Well, very [...]
If you’re looking for PX90 or Beachbody, this ain’t it. No spandex during the workout itself, no perfectly-timed, post-workout whey protein parfait following. You won’t ever see this type of a workout packaged in a pretty, well-produced DVD offering because, really, who the hell is going to actually do something like farmers walks? And more [...]
Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?
I guess I’ll probably alienate a sizable portion of my readership by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s game. It’s not so much that I’m a Saints fan per se (Actually, I’m a Cowboys fan – so there goes the rest of my readership ), [...]
“…Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
Some guys come home from work and wash up,
And go racin’ in the street…”
- Bruce Spingsteen. Though I’m kinda partial to my buddy Charlie Robison’s version.
Saturday’s workout commenced during hour 18 of an IF (intermittent fast), and consisted of a good [...]
