Training Day 100630

Squat 5 x 5

Uncle Rico

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
-Nikola Tesla

Interesting Fact: Elephants show affection for each other by entwining their trunks. I walked in on Bony doing a version of this with a Hispanic guy at the urinals at crab night last night.

Word of the Day: apposite

Training Day 100629

Prowler Sprint x 8

Joseph, one of the Starting Strength Squat Seminar attendees under the bar on Saturday. We fixed up his tendency to get forward on the descent (seen here: reference the position of the bar relative to the middle of his foot). It was a pleasure having him and his sister, Serena on hand. We look forward to seeing both of them back here soon.

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
-Edgar Watson Howe

Interesting Fact: President Andrew Johnson left crumbs out for the Whitehouse mice.

Word of the Day: Aleatory

Training Day 100626

Squat
3 rm

Deadlift
1 x 5

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Interesting Fact: Bony once shit his pants while practicing his posing routine for his first bodybuilding competition. It happened in my living room. His quote afterward was "Man, I hope I don't do that during the competition" like it was largely uncontrollable, and a serious concern.

Word of the Day: eleemosynary

Training Day 100625

Press 5 x 5

Overload Starts
3 x 2

"Morality is herd instinct in the individual."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Interesting Fact: Bony went and saw Toy Story 3 by himself (In 3D of course).

Word of the Day: Algedonic

Training Day 100624

Weighted 45 degree Back Extension
5 x 5

Glute Ham Raise

Chins
3 x Max reps

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
-Thomas Jefferson

Interesting Fact: On Tuesday, Bony was getting a whole lot of attitude from dispatch.

Word of the Day: dextrality

Training Day 100624

Squat 5 x 5

"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
-Plato

Interesting Fact: George Harrison owned a musical toilet.

Word of the Day: feral

Training Day 100623

Sled Drag Moderate/Long x 8

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-Plato

Interesting Fact: The tape measure was patented in 1868.

Word of the Day: sinistrality

Training Day 100621

Bench Press
8 x 3

Too Easy

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
-Plato

Interesting Fact: "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Word of the Day: peregrinate

Rest Day 100620

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato

Interesting Fact: An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Word of the Day: oniochalasia

Training Day 100619

Squat
3 rm

Deadlift
1 x 5

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
-Albert Einstein

Interesting Fact: John Lennon recorded and produced under 15 different aliases.

Word of the Day: noctilucous

Training Day 100618

Press 5 x 5

Overload Starts
3 x 2

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
-Albert Einstein (love this guy)

Interesting Fact: Rockhopper Penguins can hop five feet.

Word of the Day: mellifluous

Training Day 100617

Weighted 45 degree Back Extension
5 x 5

Glute Ham Raise

Chins
3 x Max reps

Jeffasus, back from Iraq.

"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
-Mark Twain

Interesting Fact: Bone marrow is the fastest growing tissue in the body.

Word of the Day: pansy

Training Day 100616

Squat 5 x 5

"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Interesting Fact: Jimi Hendrix never took a formal music lesson.

Word of the Day: gelid

Training Day 100615

Sled Drag Moderate/Long x 8

Biggs after 8 plates.

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
-G. K. Chesterton

Interesting Fact: Bony took ballet lessons as a child.

Word of the Day: epicaricacy

Training Day 100614

Bench Press
8 x 3

"To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success."
-Anna Pavlova

Interesting Fact: According to DC comics Batman is 6'2" and weighs 220.

Word of the Day: crepuscule

Rest Day 100613

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau

Interesting Fact: Bats groom themselves.

Word of the Day: cicatrix

Training Day 100612

Press 5 x 5

Overload Starts
3 x 2

Steve Goldberg pulls 475 for the first time.

"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."
-Abbe' D'Allanival

Interesting Fact: No two Lions have the same patterns of whiskers.

Word of the Day: fungible

Training Day 100611

Squat 5 x 5

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
-John Dewey

Interesting Fact: Charlie Chaplin was the first actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine.

Word of the Day: eviscerate

Training Day 100610

Weighted 45 degree Back Extension
5 x 5

Glute Ham Raise

Chins
3 x Max reps

"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all."
-Publilius Syrus

Interesting Fact: The world's tallest tomato plant grew to 65 feet.

Word of the Day: contumely

Training Day 100609

Bench Press
5 x 5

Barbell Row
Straight Set
11-15

Captions

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."
-Mata Hari

Interesting Fact: Some Middle Eastern countries breed bald chickens.

Word of the Day: cygnet

Training Day 100607

Squat
1 x 5

Deadlift
1 x 5

"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win."
-Edward Gibbon

Interesting Fact: An octopus lays about 100,000 eggs at a time.

Word of the Day: coprolite

Rest Day 100606

How we roll

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today."
-Henry Ford

Interesting Fact: An Airbus A380 can carry 800 passengers.

Word of the Day: conundrum

Training Day 100605

Press 5 x 5

Overload Starts
3 x 2

"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
-John W. Gardner

Interesting Fact: King Tut was buried with 145 pairs of underwear. Bony has asked to be buried with 200 pairs of soiled teenage boy underwear.... weird.

Word of the Day: circa

Training Day 100604

Squat 5 x 5

Scotty Pippen

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain

Interesting Fact: The first electric ovens were used in a Swiss hotel in 1889.

Word of the Day: botryoidal

Training Day 100603

Weighted 45 degree Back Extension
5 x 5

Glute Ham Raise

Chins
3 x Max reps

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interesting Fact: Crickets cannot hear their own chirping.

Word of the Day: aberrant

Training Day 100602

Bench Press
5 x 5

Barbell Row
Straight Set
11-15

Peggy!

"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."
-Don Wood

Interesting Fact: Princess Diana had to call Prince Charles "sir" until they were formally engaged.

Word of the Day: dearth

Training Day 100601

Sled Drag Heavy x 8

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
-Matthew Arnold

Interesting Fact: Aardvarks can attack and kill Lions.

Word of the Day: cockalorum