Today is developmental day, to catch up on all the things I left behind this workout cycle. Today my priority was to hit arms, to do abs which I neglect a lot, and to stretch myself out. Had a fantastic time! First, biceps… Heavy Bicep Curls: 3 sets of 5 reps @ 80lbs. Had to […]

2.26.14 Went bouldering again tonight, put in some more serious work this time. Tried a few new obstacles and actually did more properly feel the workout. Today is arm day, so it’s suitable to go bouldering as a substitute. Will shore up anything else on my arms tomorrow on dev day. I keep meaning to […]

Okay another quick recap trying to bang these out so this is purely for the record books. Today was leg day. Front Squat: 1. 5 reps @ 135lbs. 2. 5 reps @ 145lbs. 3. 5 reps @ 155lbs. 4. 1 rep @ 165lbs, poor form. Failed 3x to get that rep. Felt like I didn’t […]

Okay quick recap of chest day. This one is mostly for the books just trying to keep it logged, so keeping the verbatim short. It was chest day. Flat Bench Press: 1. 5 @ 135lbs. 2. 5 @ 145lbs. 3. 5 @ 155lbs. 4. 2 @ 165lbs (this was two reps in a row on […]

After a rest day to join some friends out for an evening of fun, I came back to the gym looking forward to having a productive workout. Light week is over, so it’s time to get back to lifting heavy for a week or two. I’m going to repeat light week periodically though, just to […]

It was a relaxing day today, weather is getting nicer and I got off work early so I took a nice midday siesta. After getting awake again and ready to go, I hit the gym for development day. My two weak spots this week were the front squats (my high volume, light weight front squats […]

This isn’t really a rest day in my exercise log, I went bouldering with friends for a couple hours. Been hard at work at an indoor rock climbing gym trying to improve my spiderman skills. I had a great time and it technically is a physical activity at least in my book, was overlapping arm […]

Okay, for something a bit different now. Since starting my personal fitness program I’ve had a dodgy system for eating. As time passes it becomes obvious that diet can be the difference between big gains in the weight room, no gains or just getting fat again. A top recommendation by body builders is to cook […]

Alright continuing light week, leg day! I’ve been looking forward to this since I got the idea for light week, and it was surprisingly hard in practice it was very intense and I felt it really hard afterwards. Which is great! Front Squat: I thought I could do more with a lighter weight, but front […]

Started my “light week” with the previous back workout, a week of primarily high intensity, low weight, high volume exercising. For the last couple months I’d been doing primarily heavy weight, low reps which is great but it’s good to switch it up. I may extend the light workouts a cycle or two, just to […]