Today was the first day of the lower body half of decreased volume strength training (as opposed to working the classical lifts). It looked like this: warm-up: reverse hyper 3×8 with 30lbs hanging leg raises 3×8 Workout: Box squat (wide stance, toes turned out, sitting back, knees back on to 15″ box, then pause […]
Archive | May, 2014
Fitness Summit
This past weekend I traveled from the thriving metroplex of 70,000 people where I live to Kansas City, MO for the Fitness Summit. What is that you asked? A two day conference with presentations by some of the biggest names in fitness writing. And by writing I mean books, blogs, e-products, social media. I went […]
A Detour into Strength
I’ll talk about the things I learned at the Fitness Summit in another post. But having gone to the Fitness Summit is relevant because that means in the last 4 days there were two days of dehydrating travel (flying means I shrink up like a prune that rolled into the back of the pantry out […]