Not Swiss balls, not crunches, not anything that you see advertised on television. Your abs are designed to stabilize your trunk and you should train them as such. There’s nothing wrong with a little flex sometimes (the occasional GHD sit-up or ab mat sit-up) though I like those more as metcon exercises. But I can [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Backsliding
It takes some effort to not freak out when you have a couple of bad workouts. I have recently had two workouts that were significantly slower than my previous efforts. In both cases it was my lower back that went on me. It was strange. My metcon was good, but I just had trouble lifting [...]
Another Test Approaches
I began writing this yesterday before I got distracted. Since I started, I actually finished the workout I was writing about preparing for. I’ll leave what I wrote yesterday in quotes, maybe add some of what I was planning to write, and then give you the post-mortem on the whole thing. Yesterday I wrote: “I [...]
Data
One quick data point: I hate bench pressing. But that’s not really the point. The larger issue is that I don’t bench press very much. My numbers show it. They are pretty average. That said, not having benched in about a year, I managed the same numbers I had when I was doing it a [...]
More Data
We spent the last month at Potomac CrossFit doing feats of strength. The hypothesis was that higher levels of limit strength (as measured by heavier weights done at low reps with ample rest) would translate to increased max limit strength, but would also carry over to improved metcon and performance on non strength dominant workouts. [...]
Wow!
It’s been forever since I posted. Since I want to make sure I don’t deter myself from posting more often, I will keep some of these posts pretty short in the hopes of getting new content up with some regularity. First, I managed to pass the big test!!!! The goal was to run a competitive [...]