Yep, it's that time of the month again. Time to get tickets to the "Gun Show". After all, it is our Second Amendment Right! My morning run takes me through a park behind my house. The park is a lushly landscaped place that is very well maintained. Beautiful trees and bushes abound everywhere with the […]

A strong grip is important. It’s your weakest link.

I love using the SSB Yoke bar. The design of it and where it sits on the shoulders makes for a bit more back extension and thus incorporates more muscle so when you go back to the straight bar you keep better technique by keeping the chest up, and the thoracic extended. The issue with […]

Physical strength measures what you CAN do. Mental strength measures whether you actually do it. Today's Training: Cycle: Commute: 27 minutes Versa Climber: 10x50 sprint steps Ab Wheel: 2x20 Kettlebell Side Flex Bends: 2x20x heavy Flutter kicks: 4x25 OHP: 4x10 DB Lateral Raise: 4x10 Front Raise: 4x10 Cycle: Commute: 30 mins. I went the long […]

This is a picture of me and Dave not talking about our shoulders. We were probably talking about the best way to slice a pizza.

There is something about running for me. After a certain distance, it goes further than my body. A little more distance and it transcends my mind. When I go just a bit further, it enters deep into my SOUL... Today's Training: Run: 5K:8=28 ish minutes. Slow but not as labored Cycle: Commute; 26 mins into […]

One cup of: Cluster Two cups of: Fuck 'em UP! Today's Training: Run: 5K- A little bit over25 mins Cycle: 26 mins 4 way neck: 1x12x2.5 GHR: 4x10 Back Extension: 4x10 Ab Wheel: 2x20 Ab Crunch: 125 reps One Pin Dead Lift: 4RM Cycle: 25 mins (I had a nice tail wind)

All right!Stop whatcha doin''Cause I'm about to ruinThe image and the style that ya used to Look at me, my calves are skinnyIt never stopped me from gettin' busyI'm a freakI like the squats with the boomI once read a muscle mag in a the EliteFTS bathroom Now that I have your attention, I hate […]

Day 4 of my quest to not be a "Butterball Turkey" almost got thwarted by a lie in my head about needing sleep and rest from my previous consecutive days of five Ks. Then one of the hundreds of voices in my head said something I wrote weeks ago..."If you don't like doing something, do […]

I've got nothing today. Just the stuff done today! Today's Training: Run: 5K; 25 mins (ish) Dynamic Squat: 10x2x55% Dynamic Deadlift: 10x1x60% Calf Raise: 2x100

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Ignore your pain, and don’t think of quitting. Today's Training: Indicates stuff I did in addition. *Run: 5K Day 2 was not easier nor harder it just was... *Cycle: This is my morning commute: 26 mins. Suspended Knees 2 Elbow: 4x10 Ab Wheel: 4x12 Hyvk Truck Prone Pendulums: 3x10 AirDyne: 5 mins steady; 15x15/45 Work […]

We were on the beach this past Sunday when my wife sent me a photograph she took of me late Monday afternoon. I looked and looked again and was NOT happy with the sight of the "beached whale" that I was looking at. Not only did I look like a large round mound, but I […]

You ought to do things in spite of the fact you might not LIKE to perform it in any manner. For instance, I abhor stretching. I find it to be too boring and uneventful and much rather do "FULL RANGE" exercises and call them "my stretches". However, I know that if I don't devote some […]

Are you doing anything to your body you shouldn't? Just because you don't feel an injury today, doesn't mean it isn't taking its toll.

All successful people come with a highly competitive personality and love competing against all types of adversities. What is impossible for the others to perform becomes easy for them eventually. Today's Training: Cycle: 27 mins C/S Row: 4x10 Blast Strap Row: 3x50 V-Bar Pulldown: 4x12 Medium Band Tricep Pushdown: 3x50 Reverse Grip BB Curl: 4x8 […]

We started a new cycle this week and on our Max Effort Days, we are currently Six Rep Maxing. I am a stickler for technique and I find using 6 reps then 4 reps then 2 I can SAFELY increase a person's strength. Because we are all goal-seeking machines, for me, too many will compensate […]

Classic Signs of Overtraining

Do not ever think of quitting since it is going to make you weak over time. Today's Training: Cycle: 27 mins Suspended Knees to Elbow: 3x12 Ab Wheel: 3x12 Decline Sit-ups: 3x12 Concept II Rowing Ergometer: 5000 meters for time 19:47 was the best time of the day so far. Alternating DB Curl: 3x20 Alternating […]

I have been all stealthy over here and just getting back to grinding at 100% for the last couple of months. I have refrained from talking about what I have been doing because I wanted to get some postive progress under my EliteFTS belt, first. Now that my knee rehab is finished, I've not been […]