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 […]

Just a quick blog I thought I’d share, so I busted my car door off in the cold part of winter when the plastic of the door handle was especially brittle. Really sucked and it broke further making it almost completely unusable. Which is really bad given that the passenger door doesn’t unlock easily. I […]

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 […]