Tag Archives: goals

Order of operations

Posted on October 2, 2018 by G

I was having Deep Thoughts in the locker room today: If I’m training for a powerlifting competition in one month, a 5k race in 2 months, and trying to shift my body composition just a leeetle bit leaner in the … Continue reading →

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UnF— my squat

Posted on September 11, 2018 by G

It’s been a long time since I’ve written, hasn’t it? Not for lack of exercise, though I’ve been feeling fairly unmotivated lately. I’m also writing a bunch for work so that’s not helping my will to blog. Anyway, start with … Continue reading →

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External evaluation

Posted on June 19, 2018 by G

(Warning: very much body talk in here, feel free to scroll on past.) I don’t think I mentioned that last week I scheduled my first ever fitness evaluation at my work gym. I resisted this for a long time. I’m … Continue reading →

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What is a posterior chain and what does it do?

Posted on June 1, 2018 by G

Google has some interesting search suggestions when you start typing "posterior chain" into the search box, the title of the post was one that popped up and made me chuckle. I was searching for posterior chain exercises in case there … Continue reading →

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What are your goals?

Posted on May 18, 2018 by G

I think I might be having a case of what the interweb lifter bros call "fuckarounditis". I need to let my back rest, but I keep running and stressing it, while my lifting workouts are just like "okay what do … Continue reading →

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This week, I tell ya.

Posted on April 11, 2018 by G

My life is barely organized chaos right now, but at least I can say it’s interesting. T-minus 2 days to the move. Once the condo is empty it’s time to do a deep clean, we have pictures Monday and listing … Continue reading →

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My workout was bomb

Posted on March 29, 2018 by G

When I was young and slang-y, we used to say things were "the bomb" (and later, "the bomb dot com" but that was strictly ironically). Nowadays kids just say something is "bomb" and leave out the article. I feel old. … Continue reading →

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Not my best effort

Posted on March 27, 2018 by G

Meh. I went to the weight room all excited today to do some BIG LIFTS and left kind of deflated after some things didn’t go as planned. I still go a decent workout in, and nothing catastrophic happened, but I … Continue reading →

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Getting back to work!

Posted on March 20, 2018 by G

I’m back at the office for the first time since two Thursdays ago. It feels weird, and I have a lot of fires to put out, but the good thing is that I could go back to the gym on … Continue reading →

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do it light, get it right

Posted on March 1, 2018 by G

Yesterday evening I headed out for a run– sans $husband, this time, so I could pick the speed I wanted to go. I started out the run rather fast– first mile was 10’12" and was somehow able to almost sustain … Continue reading →

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