Day 1 E:90 x8 Pause wide grip bench x8 Bent over BB row x10 E:75 x9 Narrow grip push-up x10 40m double KB front rack carry DB curl x8 Lying neck flexion 3×12 I couldn’t wake up this morning. Lately,…
FBB Pump 40 – Week 3
Week three and I feel like I am starting to get settled into this program, especially when it comes to modifying the workout. I was still hella sore and surprised at what increasing the intensity for just 45 minutes can…
FBB Pump 40 – Week 2
Going into this week, it was painfully obvious I would need to modify and scale down some of the workouts if I intended to use my body normally. I also thought about creating my own version of 75 Hard, but…
FBB Pump 40 – Week 1
I started following the Functional Bodybuilding Pump 40 program this week. This program was created by a former Games athlete and just due to that I was apprehensive about a program that might be too similar to CrossFit. However, I…
Moving Onward, Slowly
After week five of my running program, the pain in my left knee got to the point where I had to stop running entirely. It was impacting movement outside of running. It turns out that blowing out a knee isn’t…
TOAB HM Week 5
The past week of training has felt both like a success and a failure. Listening to my body is something I am still learning, even after all of these years. The pain in my left knee got to a point…
TOAB HM Week 4
Each week feels now entirely different than the last. There are training days which feel night and day different also. On Tuesday, I went out to run at a time I do not normally run. I was limited on time…
TOAB HM Week 3
It is too cliche to type “week 3 is in the books” because I have no knowledge of what books I would be talking about here. My left knee had been in such pain that I had trouble getting into…
TOAB HM Week 2
Week two of running, or whatever it is that I am doing which I hope resembles running. The previous two weeks have been fantastic and I wanted to carry that momentum through the third week. I was able to do…
First Week of Running. Again.
The past two weeks have been really good for me, mentally and physically. I still have a big hill to climb, but I finally feel like I am at a point where I can push forward. On day two, I…