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Today’s Amusing Gym Antics – Take 2
February 1st, 2012 
Tyson Is it the goal of a personal trainer to make their trainee do the most ridiculous excerises imaginable as justification for charging high prices? Maybe it’s a way to convince the trainee that they are getting their moneys worth? After all, who would pay for a trainer to show them how to do the major compound exercises (squat, [...]
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Manly Lifting Stats – Update 1
January 25th, 2012 Tyson I hit some new personal records at the gym today. That got me thinking about where I stood on reaching my ultimate goals outlined here. After all, its been 3 months since I originally posted it. So here goes.
I am guessing my current weight is hopefully still around 190. I dont think I have hopped [...]
Today’s Amusing Gym Antics
January 23rd, 2012 Tyson
I was quite surprised today to see three guys doing bench presses in the walk in squat rack. They had the bar on the dead-lift mounts and they were lying on the ground on a mat. Six things really bothered me about these guys.
There are 4 bench press benches in this gym. 2 were not being used.
Two of the [...]
Thanksgiving Challenge
November 21st, 2011 Tyson
Today starts Day 1 of my 2800 push up challenge. Each day for the next 7 days, I am going to attempt do 100 more push ups than the day before. So today I am going to do 100, tomorrow 200, Wednesday 300 and so on and so forth until Sunday when I need to be able to complete [...]
Manly Lifting Stats
October 18th, 2011 Tyson According to Martin Berkhan, as an advanced lifter I should be able to do the following lifts:
Bench press: body weight x 1.5 = 285lbs
Chin-ups or pull-ups: body weight x 1.5 = 285lbs
Squat: body weight x 2 = 360lbs
Deadlift: body weight x 2.5 = 475lbs
These are all for a 1RM
Even though I cannot do these amounts [...]
