Archive for November, 2009

Bench Like a Man

Flush with righteous wrath after my rant about squats, I figured I might as well target my next gym peeve, the halfway down bencher. They’re closely related to the wanna-squatter. We’ve all see them. Bar comes off the rack, they lower it, lower it, lower it low – WTF? You’re pressing it back up? You [...]

Cholesterol Experiment Day 13

Morning supplements: 500mg Slo-Niacin 2,000mg Vitamin C 200mcg Chromium Polynicotinate Ate CBO today, with some grilled salmon and collard greens for dinner courtesy of my wife. Snagged a min-pack of peanut M&M’s from the kids’ candy bag. Went to Muay Thai after work. For the better part of a year, I was pretty regular about attending [...]

Stop Squatting Like a Newb

After more than 2 decades in the gym, I’ve got a pretty long list of things that annoy me. Right at the top is when I see some guy load up the bar and grunt his way through what he thinks are squats, when he barely goes down past a 30 degree bend in the [...]

Cholesterol Experiment Day 12

Morning supplements: 500mg Slo-Niacin 2,000mg Vitamin C 200mcg Chromium Polynicotinate Back on with the CBO today. Rand 2 miles in the a.m. Acciomplished nothing of worth the rest of the day. Evening Supplements: 500mg Slo-Niacin 2,500mg Vitamin C 23mg Policosanol 200mcg Chromium Polynicotinate

Cholesterol Experiment Day 11

It was my wife’s birthday, so I took the day off from work. Took her to lunch and to see a movie. She wants to see Precious, but it’s not in our area, so we opted for Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Sounds lame, huh? It’s pretty much a documentary of him rehearsing for the [...]