As I mentioned in my last post I canceled my gym membership. Despite having the equipment at home and my own body(!) I haven’t had any time to workout this week.  I think that this is the way it’s going to be for a few weeks to come.  Perhaps even longer. Which bums me out […]

No I didn’t go and blow it up, although that thought had occured to me as I watched the “trainers” put the clients through yet another machine based workout.
The reason for no more gym has to do with the fact that we are moving from Iowa to Wyoming. Cheyenne to be more specific.  I have […]

Sometimes life gets in the way and today was one of those (and there’s probably many more of those in store in the future…more on that next week).  No lunch workout, but I did have some time after I got home tonight so I brought up the kettlebell and did some swings with it and […]

Did the 2nd workout for this week (repeat of last Wednesday’s workout).  The front squats were a wee bit harder than last week.  Not entirely sure why that was.
On Monday and today when I did my treadmill HIT my calves got really sore towards the end of it.  I think I mentioned this a long […]

I didn’t think that these workouts would be that hard, but this one just kicks my ass.  It’s 10 minutes of fun (if that’s your idea of fun!).  Here’s what it looks like.
Superset 1 - DB RDL’s followed by  DB Bench (pretty easy) (3×8)
Superset 2 - DB Reverse Lunge followed by Single Arm Shoulder press […]

Even though the events won’t be broadcast until December (I believe), Svend “The Viking” Karlsen has been posting up some behind the scene photos of the events that are rather interesting ( I actually think it’s his wife that’s posting them up now that I read a bit more).  It’s always nice to get a […]

Yesterday was a workout day and I should have gone on my lunch break, but damned if I couldn’t bring myself to get there.  So I went out to lunch and decided that I’d do a workout at home and try and make use of the kettlebell.  Additionally the weather was perfect.  Cool, but by […]

Of the 2 workouts that I’m switching between this workout is the longer of the 2.  It involves 3 supersets (or what I have turned into supersets), rather than 2.  I timed the weight portion of it and then the cardio/HIIT portion of it.  They were split right down the middle. And believe me, I […]

So my first kettlebell arrived.  Either I have gotten weaker, probably, or kettlebells are a WHOLE different beast when compared to dumbbells.  The thing feels like it weighs a ton compared to a 35 pound dumbbell that I can throw around with out any problem.  I ordered my Kettlebell from Lifeline USA which was linked […]

So there I was in the revamped weight room getting ready for my third set of Dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts (RDL) and one of the regular’s comes up to me and says “you should bend your knees a bit more or else you’ll hurt your back”. So how would you have responded?  But let me first […]