Today I would like to give a huge shout-out to my client Neeraj who just killed his hydrostatic body fat testing! He is involved in the Silicon Valley tech industry, and he came to me with little experience in weight lifting, and a fairly weak, small frame. He wanted to get stronger and build some lean muscle mass!
We have been working hard, and we knew he had been building strength and size- but how much was a pleasant surprise! In ...
Continue Reading →have been going to AKA for my workouts lately, so felt the itch to do some heavy lifting (back to my roots lol).
Here’s what I did
Deadlifts- warm up sets til 335 for 1 rep
Weighted pull ups- warm up sets til 35 lbs for 3 reps
My random workout this AM- goal of burning 500 calories
2 sets:
1a. Pull-ups -12 body weight (yah buddy!)
1b. Leg press 45s x15
2 sets:
2a. Pull-ups -12 body weight
2b. Leg press two 45s x15
3. five min run (.51 miles)
2 sets:
4a. Abs x 50
4b. Bodyweight dips x 5
4c. Leg extension x 15 (the bodybuilder in me loves this, don’t hate)
5. Five min run (.55 miles)
2 sets:
6a. Handstand push ups against wall ...
Today I want to give a humungous shout-out to my rockstar client Katie. She has been successfully undertaking a dramatic body re-composition, and her most recent hydrostatic bodyfat test demonstrates crazy-amazing numbers.
Bodyfat %:
Previous Test 03/01/2013 41.65 %
Today’s Test 06/07/2013 33.64 %
Change in body fat percentage -8.02 %
Total Weight:
Previous Test 03/01/2013 204.5 lbs.
Today’s Test 06/07/2013 179.5 lbs.
Change in total weight -25 lbs.
Lean Mass:
Previous ...
Continue Reading →Please see my awesome handstand-ness?
This one is from today
This one is from a little bit ago
LOVE YOU!
WOW!!!! How could I not know this?!!?!?
I got a certificate from the United States Powerlifting Association to certify that I hold the state record in bench press. Okay, this I knew.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover on the certificate that I am ALSO the state deadlift champion!! Isnt that awesome?! Turns out I lifted 341.7 pounds, thereby breaking the state record for my age/sex/weight. WOOP!!! Omigod pat myself on the back! 🙂
I’m happy….
1/2 mile run in 4 min, 51 sec
10 sets of :
5 rows w/20’s
5 reverse lunges each leg (bodyweight)
10 pushups
15 crunches
then 1/2 mile run in 4 min, 46 sec
then walk/jog up 9 flights of stairs five times
this was filmed the last (fifth) time up the stairs
sorry for the shitty sound!
xoxo
The meet was swimmingly.
Friday afternoon Emily and I drove up to Modesto for weigh ins and to get our equipment approved. Even competing in the raw division, they have to check your singlet, shoes, shirt, etc.
That done, we carb loaded on some hamburgers n chili cheese fries and I ate tons of swedish fish, rice krispie treats, and other unmentionables.
We met up with our trainer Dan, his fiancee, Mike (competing too), and his wife. Em and I snacked on more ...
Continue Reading →I have this obsession whereby I really need to go to the gym in the morning. I don’t know what it is. I just like to be there. Even if I’m just walking and stretching– I like to be there. It feels good.
So today I planned to do “cardio” which means I will be messing around. I walked for 8 minutes on the treadmill before I was bored out of my mind, so I tried to lift as easily as ...
Continue Reading →There are many different ways to do deadlifts, and the most popular are conventional and sumo. More and more, sumo is becoming the deadlift of choice among powerlifters. McGuinan and Wilson (1996) did biomechanical analysis of the sumo and conventional style deadlift. The following is a summary of what they found:
1. The lift-off- The sumo has a trunk angle that is significantly closer to vertical that conventional lifters. Sumo lifters were also found ...
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