workouts
DIY Hanging Handles, psuedo "rings"
For the gym that has everything, and for the space that has nothing but could become training space for a tool that gives great bang for the buck and takes Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
The Home Gym 2007
It's been a couple of years since I took a good look at my home gym. I use it all the time, of course; but I don't often stop to Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
Another week without
A week without chin-ups is a long one indeed. Although the shoulder isn't feeling too bad when it isn't lifting any real weight, I decided to give it another week Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
The workout logs return
It's been a while now since I last posted my training notes (although of course I've still been training), which I thought I'd rectify. Especially now as the weather here Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
Fattening up the chin-up bar
The chin-up bar that forms part of the rack - as much as I love it - was just too thin. At a diameter of around 2.5cm/1", it was one Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
Improving squat depth
During a few sets of squats yesterday I asked my dad to tell me how deep I was going (in relation to parallel). He moved his hands apart as if Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
Quick weighted chin-up test
At the start of today's workout I decided to do a quick weighted chin-up test. The last time I tried this was way back in July 2005, and I was Continue reading »»Strength and Fitness Newsletter. Are you getting it?
- First week back | 1 Aug 2006
- Now, what were those PRs again? | 26 Jul 2006
- A training update | 11 Jul 2006
- Weekly round-up : Too many boxes, hindu squats and dead bugs | 31 Mar 2006
- 10 minutes of benching | 27 Mar 2006
- Back to the grind | 23 Mar 2006
- Marathon walking | 22 Mar 2006
- Walk in the park II | 19 Mar 2006
- More room to work with | 17 Mar 2006
- A guess | 14 Mar 2006
- For no apparent reason | 13 Mar 2006
- Snatch-grip rack pulls | 11 Mar 2006
- Walking backwards | 9 Mar 2006
- Aching all over - time for grip work | 8 Mar 2006
- And it's only Tuesday | 7 Mar 2006
- Soothing music and a handful of new PRs | 3 Mar 2006
- Shouldering on | 2 Mar 2006
- Ouch! | 27 Feb 2006
- Chalk it up | 25 Feb 2006
- High rep rack pulls | 21 Feb 2006
- Overhead shrug test | 20 Feb 2006
- Gloves off | 17 Feb 2006
- Headband squat test | 16 Feb 2006
- Workout, continued | 14 Feb 2006
- Workout, interrupted | 13 Feb 2006
- Bottom squats | 12 Feb 2006
- Push-up top-up | 10 Feb 2006
- Not before time | 9 Feb 2006
- A bit more volume | 5 Feb 2006
- All in the wrist | 3 Feb 2006
- Shrugs | 2 Feb 2006
- Toe in the water | 1 Feb 2006
- High rep squatting | 24 Jan 2006
- Chest, lats and biceps | 23 Jan 2006
- An extended warmup | 21 Jan 2006
- Playing catch-up again | 17 Jan 2006
- Shelf building | 13 Jan 2006
- Shoulders still inflexible | 12 Jan 2006
- Seated again | 10 Jan 2006
- Disruption | 9 Jan 2006
- Hello? | 6 Jan 2006
- Quick speed session | 4 Jan 2006
- Breaking it up | 3 Jan 2006
- New year, new beginning | 1 Jan 2006
- Snatch-grip rack pulls | 28 Dec 2005
- 10s | 26 Dec 2005
- Christmas Eve benching | 24 Dec 2005
- Short and dark | 22 Dec 2005
- More grip varying | 20 Dec 2005
- 308 | 18 Dec 2005
- Pendlay Rows | 17 Dec 2005
- Faster | 16 Dec 2005
- All 8 | 14 Dec 2005
- Shoulder flexibility and strength | 13 Dec 2005
- Light pressing | 10 Dec 2005
- Pulled | 7 Dec 2005
- Slightly heavier | 5 Dec 2005
- Two and three | 4 Dec 2005
- One of three | 4 Dec 2005
- Warm hands, cold bar | 1 Dec 2005
- Return of the rack | 29 Nov 2005
- Gloves on | 19 Nov 2005
- Still mixing | 13 Oct 2005
- Left in the dark | 4 Oct 2005
- Deadlifting by dungeonlight | 28 Sep 2005
- Quick bench max test | 27 Aug 2005
- Back to it (almost) | 24 Aug 2005
- Another tricep battering | 20 Aug 2005
- Bottom-up squat test | 19 Aug 2005
- The walking week | 18 Aug 2005
- Unusual | 16 Aug 2005
- Half-hearted | 15 Aug 2005
- Relocation and Renovation: the Real R and R | 13 Aug 2005
- Cuban press | 9 Aug 2005
- Intensity | 5 Aug 2005
- Retake | 4 Aug 2005
- New combo | 1 Aug 2005
- Snatching victory | 31 Jul 2005
- How much weight for feeder workouts? | 30 Jul 2005
- Climbing | 29 Jul 2005
- Checking depth | 28 Jul 2005
- Music for therapy | 26 Jul 2005
- Getting hip to it | 24 Jul 2005
- A new kind of pain | 23 Jul 2005
- Still a long way to go | 21 Jul 2005
- Seated Half Press | 19 Jul 2005
- Weighted chin-up test | 18 Jul 2005
- Quick Z-squat session | 18 Jul 2005
- Delayed | 17 Jul 2005
- Structural balance test | 15 Jul 2005
- Now comes the speed | 13 Jul 2005
- Drowning in sweat | 11 Jul 2005
- Return of the Zercher dead | 10 Jul 2005
- Leading with the shoulders | 9 Jul 2005
- Hitting the sides | 6 Jul 2005
- Overloading | 4 Jul 2005
- First week | 3 Jul 2005
- Band benching in the heat | 1 Jul 2005
- A little straighter | 30 Jun 2005
- More lockouts | 27 Jun 2005
- Deadlift max test | 26 Jun 2005
- Rising | 24 Jun 2005
- Quick test : Leg curls | 22 Jun 2005
- Elsewhere | 21 Jun 2005
- Leg strength (or lack of) | 20 Jun 2005
- Lightening strikes twice | 19 Jun 2005
- The green, green grass of home | 18 Jun 2005
- 3 weeks of conditioning | 29 May 2005
- Quick DE workout | 27 May 2005
- Suspended band push-ups and a new blog | 22 May 2005
- Testing the Lightened Method | 22 May 2005
- Band push-ups : part II | 20 May 2005
- Band push-ups | 20 May 2005
- Wet | 18 May 2005
- Mad dogs and Englishmen | 16 May 2005
- Daily double | 15 May 2005
- It's time | 13 May 2005
- Dip 'n' rip | 11 May 2005
- Not a plateau | 9 May 2005
- Quick Z-test | 8 May 2005
- Triceps, triceps, triceps | 7 May 2005
- Slow like honey | 4 May 2005
- Mayday | 1 May 2005
- Pain in the neck | 28 Apr 2005
- Stretching it a bit | 27 Apr 2005
- Longer days | 25 Apr 2005
- Lower | 24 Apr 2005
- Split | 22 Apr 2005
- Taking a bow | 20 Apr 2005
- 15 degrees | 19 Apr 2005
- Behind the neck | 17 Apr 2005
- Fast on Friday | 15 Apr 2005
- Getting heavier | 13 Apr 2005
- Dumbbell Vertical grip Deadlift | 12 Apr 2005
- And the bands begin to play | 11 Apr 2005
- Stapled at 100 | 11 Apr 2005
- Raising the bar | 10 Apr 2005
- Quickly | 8 Apr 2005
- Speed pulls | 7 Apr 2005
- Grokking the Hook grip | 3 Apr 2005
- In two parts | 2 Apr 2005
- Plates at the ready | 31 Mar 2005
- Almost fast | 30 Mar 2005
- Blindsided | 29 Mar 2005
- 'Til the calves come home | 27 Mar 2005
- Coming to grips with it | 26 Mar 2005
- No thumbs | 23 Mar 2005
- The Jefferson Lift | 20 Mar 2005
- Still mixed | 18 Mar 2005
- Back to the fray | 17 Mar 2005
- Still on the floor | 10 Mar 2005
- Just the four | 6 Mar 2005
- Mixed bag | 4 Mar 2005
- On the floor | 3 Mar 2005
- Turning up the volume | 27 Feb 2005
- Back on the bench | 24 Feb 2005
- Zercher deadlifting | 20 Feb 2005
- Conditioning | 18 Feb 2005
- Lying down again | 17 Feb 2005
- YABW | 6 Feb 2005
- Squatting and stretching | 4 Feb 2005
- Off the cuff | 30 Jan 2005
- Just a quick squat session | 29 Jan 2005
- Not quite cardio | 27 Jan 2005
- Squatting, not spotting | 24 Jan 2005
- The JM Press | 24 Jan 2005
- ...and relax | 21 Jan 2005
- Bring back the dumbells | 16 Jan 2005
- Let's twist again | 16 Jan 2005
- Raising the reps | 13 Jan 2005
- Shouldering the blame | 6 Jan 2005
- Feeling woozy | 3 Jan 2005
- From side to side | 2 Jan 2005
- Bringing the year to a close | 31 Dec 2004
- You load 16 tons and what do you get? | 29 Dec 2004
- On your knees | 27 Dec 2004
- Slip sliding away | 26 Dec 2004
- Walking out | 24 Dec 2004
- On the floor again | 22 Dec 2004
- Spreading it wide | 20 Dec 2004
- A new angle | 19 Dec 2004
- Fear of the squat | 17 Dec 2004
- Introducing the Hise Shrug | 15 Dec 2004
- Firing up the forearms | 14 Dec 2004
- Workout by proxy | 12 Dec 2004
- Finally : bodyweight reached for the big three | 8 Dec 2004
- Full frontal | 6 Dec 2004
- Back to the start | 6 Dec 2004
- Keeping upright | 5 Dec 2004
- Rack pulls and front squatting | 3 Dec 2004
- Slowly, slowly | 1 Dec 2004
- Short and sweet | 29 Nov 2004
- Back from vacation | 28 Nov 2004
- Almost back to normal | 27 Nov 2004
- Continued | 25 Nov 2004
- Abandoned | 25 Nov 2004
- Zercher... Seek and Destroy! | 18 Nov 2004
- Almost... | 10 Nov 2004
- A quick bit of pressing | 7 Nov 2004
- Back to school : Squatting 102 | 5 Nov 2004
- Squat or deadlift? | 1 Nov 2004
- Morning after | 31 Oct 2004
- Back to school : Squatting 101 | 29 Oct 2004
- Gripping in the wet | 28 Oct 2004
- Trapped! | 27 Oct 2004
- Simplicity | 25 Oct 2004
- Flat out | 24 Oct 2004
- Revenge of the Zercher Deadlift | 22 Oct 2004
- How close is close? | 20 Oct 2004
- Return of the Quads | 18 Oct 2004
- Floored | 17 Oct 2004
- The Zercher Deadlift | 15 Oct 2004
- Dumbell special | 13 Oct 2004
- Cooling down | 12 Oct 2004
- Catching up (slowly) | 11 Oct 2004
- Another day without | 10 Oct 2004
- Missing in action | 8 Oct 2004
- What a difference a day makes | 5 Oct 2004
- Long night, short workout | 3 Oct 2004
- Squatting again | 1 Oct 2004
- Back under the bar | 29 Sep 2004
- In bloom | 22 Sep 2004
- Soaking up the sun - again | 20 Sep 2004
- Water, water everywhere | 20 Sep 2004
- Just a quickie | 2 Sep 2004
- Still searching | 30 Aug 2004
- Unfamiliar iron | 29 Aug 2004
- Better late than never | 24 Aug 2004
- Put your hands together | 22 Aug 2004
- Cool of the evening | 20 Aug 2004
- Old habits die hard | 18 Aug 2004
- Easy on the elbows | 16 Aug 2004
- After the Fringe | 15 Aug 2004
- ...and into the fire | 13 Aug 2004
- Rainin' and Squattin' | 9 Aug 2004
- Cutting through it | 8 Aug 2004
- Sweating like roasting hams | 6 Aug 2004
- New combo | 4 Aug 2004
- Going behind the back | 2 Aug 2004
- Meet the Neider Press | 1 Aug 2004
- Flick of the wrist | 31 Jul 2004
- String those hams! | 30 Jul 2004
- Getting the hang of it...slowly | 28 Jul 2004
- Dead again | 26 Jul 2004
- Closing in again | 25 Jul 2004
- Back to the Hack | 23 Jul 2004
- Introducing The Great Zottman | 21 Jul 2004
- Getting a few Zs | 19 Jul 2004
- Bring in the Gorilla | 18 Jul 2004
- Back to the front | 16 Jul 2004
- Hands and Forearms | 15 Jul 2004
- Back on the box | 9 Jul 2004
- The return | 7 Jul 2004
- Max on the box | 28 Jun 2004
- Return of Mr T | 27 Jun 2004
- Sweeping the floor | 25 Jun 2004
- Flattened | 23 Jun 2004
- Take 2 | 21 Jun 2004
- Raining again | 20 Jun 2004
- Quicker off the box | 18 Jun 2004
- Off the floor | 16 Jun 2004
- A rose by any other name | 14 Jun 2004
- The Bradford Press | 13 Jun 2004
- Hang on to it | 12 Jun 2004
- Bring out the box | 11 Jun 2004
- Keeping the chin up | 10 Jun 2004
- Cage arrives | 9 Jun 2004
- Zercher inspirations | 7 Jun 2004
- Quick on the incline | 6 Jun 2004
- Lets twist again | 4 Jun 2004
- Back on the bench | 2 Jun 2004
- Plate curling, bar raising and other fun things | 1 Jun 2004
- Return of D-Day | 31 May 2004
- Stretching things a bit | 30 May 2004
- Grip workout | 29 May 2004
- Don't step on them | 27 May 2004
- Finally, a wider bar | 25 May 2004
- The final week | 23 May 2004
- Just a quickie | 20 May 2004
- Pushing harder | 18 May 2004
- The routine continues | 17 May 2004
- An arms race | 13 May 2004
- Pressing engagement | 11 May 2004
- A call to hams | 9 May 2004
- The arms are getting longer | 6 May 2004
- The slowdown continues | 4 May 2004
- Longer, slower, heavier | 2 May 2004
- A call to arms | 29 Apr 2004
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afor the legs | 27 Apr 2004 - Introducing the deadlift | 25 Apr 2004
- Weights arrive | 22 Apr 2004
- A little faster | 20 Apr 2004
- Time to buy some more weights | 18 Apr 2004
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