Alright short log for the first day of my first hypertrophy cycle. Higher volume, lower weight is the theme. Keeping the log short as I’m a few days behind in recording, I have a video to share though so it’ll get to the front page (boo!). Today is Deadlifts/Front Squats. Put a lot of work […]

Rest day today for my weight training but managed to get a good run in. I was a bit sluggish and had a poor pace, but felt like I’d be good to get my legs moving again to prepare for my next 5K. Had a fairly substandard pace despite pushing myself, just was an off […]

The last day of my first week cycle of my new program, yay! The cycle ends with Front Squat & Bench Press Day. Being the first week’s cycle the theme is basic conditioning. Just laying down to record how it went! Front Squat: Felt real good, then bad, then good about it. First did my […]

Well I wanted yesterday to be a rest day, but wound up throwing boxes all over receiving so still was tired as all hell. So today I hit up the new gym, which I officially am subbed to. Goodbye LA Fitness, hello Factory of Solitude. Today was my first day of the new bench press/deadlift […]

My second workout day of the new cycle was my new developmental day, but that took a back seat a bit to the fact that it was also testing out a new gym. The new gym was interesting, it had a lot of equipment, was very quiet in comparison to my normal gym so very […]

Today was the first day of my phase 2 workout plan, which I detailed extensively in my long video blog that I linked in the previous post. It was a real great workout and let me tell you, you take a week off from extensive training like I had last year and you notice right […]

Designing a personal fitness program is something nobody really has to do, there are a lot of well thought out plans available for anyone to learn about and try. However I find that part of fitness really fun and motivating, so I thought I’d share my ideas as I transition from my first year program […]

After the training and the talking and the stressing it was finally race day, and I was ready as I’ll ever be. I had a fantastic time out today, well except for getting my car out of downtown after the race was over due to the race sections still being corded off… the day was […]

My mornings are never productive enough to properly make breakfast every morning, I’m always running late and sometimes even the prepared staple frozen diet of eggs/broccoli/chicken nuked in the microwave is still too much of a hassle. How, I can’t imagine. There is a huge temptation each day to pick up food on the way […]

One of the things I promised myself was I’d plan my break from the gym around the vacation time I requested off for after the half marathon. So today was my last workout day and since I’m starting a new plan to replace the one I’ve been doing for the last year, I decided to […]