My own body scared me all my life. For the last two years, I’ve been on a mission to change that. What helped me turn the corner was trusting in coaches. I stopped expecting myself to know everything before going into the gym: let a coach guide you. Stop racing around the internet for answers: […]
Our home gym is a cozy, efficient pressure cooker of fitness. For Father’s Day, Amber got me the new set of 50lb dumbbells. Other additions since I last blogged about the setup: 20lb dumbbells 10lb dumbbells Abmat 100lb Strongman Sandbag PVC pipe New Buddy Lee Ropemaster jump rope All proven to be great investments as […]
Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all at their worst yet in the United States. In Kentucky, a new set of restrictions has gone into place and in general I support them all. Gym capacities are restricted as part of those measures. While they’re not closed, I’m electing to train in my home gym until […]
I’m procrastinating real work, so here’s a project I made that I’ve wanted for a while. Alex’s Max Cheatsheet
Today Second trip to the new gym. Deadlifts and overhead presses plus walks there and back. Made some decent choices about food – the only irresponsible thing being a trip to Dairy Del in the evening. Grocery shop, dishes, laundry folding, straightening up the house all as a matter of course. Tons of time with […]
UofL has a small gym about a 15 minute walk from my house. We’ve meant to join it ever since we found out just how much cheaper it is than the Y. We finally joined on Monday night. Tonight was my first workout there and I had a blast. The walk itself is just enough […]
We paid for a gym membership all 12 months of 2017. Turns out I only went during the first six months of that: January: 10 visits February: 13 visits March: 12 visits April: 1 visit May: 4 visits June: 6 visits There may have been a couple more in that last half of the year […]
“From this point to the Downtown YMCA front desk using the stairs, you will burn around 14 extra calories. Do this every day and that will add up! It’s my Y.” A quick Google search says losing a pound requires about a 3500 calorie deficit. 14 calories every day is 5110 calories a year, so that’s 1.46 […]
Hello, my name is Alex, and I’m a coffee addict. I’ll always be an addict. But for now I’m an addict who’s taking steps to drink less coffee. I plan to have at least two weeks of drinking nothing stronger than decaf coffee and herbal tea. Earlier in the fall, I would’ve very much defended […]
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