“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you’ve hung around the ol’ TTP blog for long, you’ve inevitably heard me drone-on (and on and on…) about my beloved fixie. What’s the allure, you ask — I mean, Chrissakes, it’s just a friggin’ bicycle, right? Au contraire, my good [...]
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First off, let me bore you with today’s workout. Again, we here in eastern NC were blessed with a beautiful spring day, and again I took advantage of it with a good bit of fixie huckin’ about town, and the following workout. Come Monday, I’ll be back to being sequestered within [...]
After an extended warm-up this morning, I performed a round of 8 x 70 yard sprints at approximately 90% effort, approximately 1 minute rest between sprints. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done any significant sprinting, and that, coupled with the fact that I’ve been hitting the single-leg work pretty hard, prompted my [...]
“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 [...]
No better way to kick-off a Friday, and what looks to be (fingers crossed!) a work-free weekend, than with some high-voltage, explosive movements, first thing in the morning.
As a bridge between my dynamic stretching/Oly-like warm-up and the meat of the workout, I did a 200 yard farmer’s “sprint” (ok, it was a fast-as-possible walk) with [...]
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 ), [...]
