I fully intended to write a full post on the Chicago airport gym, but now it swirls around in my head with the other travelin’ gyms and workouts I did, so it will just be one of a list: Chicago: Hilton hotel gym at the airport (you DO have to leave security). Has an Olympic [...]
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My Favorite Places
For an advisory position I’m fulfilling this coming week (more about that later!), I had to list my favorite places. As I sat down with both Austin and Aspen categories, I realized that the majority of my fave places are fitness-and-outdoors-related. No surprise, right? In Aspen: Bleeker Street, King Yoga, Rio Grande Trail, Jimmy’s, and [...]
“You’re Getting Killed Over There!”
Um, sir, I’m doing it to myself. What was I doing while this poor man thought I was getting killed? FRIDAY 110610 For time: 225 pound Deadlift, 21 reps (185#) 50 Squats 135 pound Push press, 21 reps (95#) 225 pound Deadlift, 15 reps 50 Squats 135 pound Push press, 15 reps 225 pound Deadlift, [...]
Hitting up the gyms while traveling
I’m traveling and sticking to the .com schedule, so I had to find a pullup bar yesterday for 2-2-2-2-2-2-2 weighted pullups. I stopped into Boston’s Equinox gym, thinking I could enjoy a pampering hot tub dip and other amenities after my workout, only to be told that they don’t do day passes. Really?! I can’t [...]
Commitment
I publicly declared my commitent to doing the .com workouts on a rest day. Yesterday, the workout was right in the arsenal for the gym I go to: WEDNESDAY 110511 Five rounds for time of: 135 pound Overhead squat, 5 reps 10 Toes to bar 40 pound dumbbell Hang squat clean, 15 reps 20 Double-unders Kristan [...]
Row, row, row your boat
I often scour CrossFit box websites to find good workouts, but rarely do I read about a workout another gym did and think to myself, oooh, I’ve gotta tackle that one. It’s usually tough workouts I wouldn’t program for myself, or creative combos I hadn’t thought of. Basically, I’m not emailing myself 21-15-9 workouts. Programming for [...]
I <3 Red Black Gym
Y’all know I like my workouts to look like play … Nature’s Garage Gym was my own personal playground, and then I did workouts on an actual playground. Well today I got to return to my roots at the Red Black Gym (nee SicFit) with the 1:15pm class with Big Mike. LOVED IT! Warmup: lots of [...]
I Snowboard.
Remember when I learned to ski? Here’s a photo. I’d say learning to snowboard went much better … In all seriousness, I liked snowboarding a lot and picked it up faster than skiing. I felt more confident … don’t know if it’s the strapped-in feet, that I already knew the mountain, or that I had [...]
Hey, can we snatch with you?
I’m at the gym tonight working on a 1 rep snatch max so I can partake in a fun CrossFit Austin workout (which, it turns out, I later mangled anyway). A few guys are also in there working out, and they’re not slouches–one of them is doing almost-handstand-pushups suspended from the TRX (the point? not [...]
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“You swing that rope so fast it could cut cheese!”
I just can’t make these things up. Another hilariously awesome comment from another Bleeker Street Gym athlete (these are almost as good as the BMQOTDs used to be … I miss you Big Mike … and my witness Alex): “You swing that rope so fast it could cut cheese!” Is she secretly noting that I am cutting [...]
June 21, 2011
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