Rest Day 091122

"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
-Mel Brooks

Interesting Fact: One in four British veterinarians say that they have treated a drunk dog.

Word of the Day: efficacious

Rest Day 091121

Intensive GARDA training for the Raptor. They like their employees to be forward in all of their squats.

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-Elbert Hubbard

Interesting Fact: The most popular toothbrush color in the world is blue.

Word of the Day: dollop

Training Day 091120

Squat
4 x 4
1 x 10

15 year old Cody is growing and getting much stronger.

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."
-Don Wilder and Bill Rechin

Interesting Fact: Pill bugs are more closely related to crabs and shrimp than to insects

Word of the Day: dicephalous

Training Day 091119

T Bar Row
3 x 5

Hanging Leg Raise

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves."
-Edwin Way Teale

Interesting Fact: In Nepal it is considered good luck to run yogurt on your forehead.

Word of the Day: defenestrate

Training Day 091118

Bench Press
5 x 5

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail."
-Henry David Thoreau

Interesting Fact: For six months in 1777 Vermont was called New Connecticut.

Word of the Day: cusp

Training Day 091117

Prowler Sprints

The Raptor's new ride.

"How many things are there which I do not want."
-Socrates

Interesting Fact: cats do not sweat.

Word of the Day: curple

Training Day 091116

Squat
5 x 1

Deadlift
1 x 5

Nikki flexes for the camera at her wedding this past Saturday. Chances are she was one of the top three Deadlifters in attendance, male or female. (Cell Phone photo)

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."
-Albert Einstein

Interesting Fact: Myrrh is a resin from the Dindin tree.

Word of the Day: contumely