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All Things Strength

HELPING YOU GET STRONGER SINCE 2004

A Guess

Based on various reactions this morning (I’ll spare you the details), I’d guess it was a mild dose of food poisoning that caused yesterday’s impromptu events. Things seemed to have settled down by this afternoon – a quick bench session seemed...

For No Apparent Reason

I’ve been throwing up randomly throughout the day – with no apparent reason. Usually the finger of blame points toward a particular item of food, a current illness, or stress. Today there was none of that; it just seemed that everything I ate was making a...

Snatch-Grip Rack Pulls

A very, very brief session today (no more than 10 minutes). The schedule should be back to normal by tomorrow. Snatch-grip rack pull (below knee, 4 holes) 4×10@60/132 2×10@100/225

Walking Backwards

Just a quick squat session today. At the risk of sounding a little weird (perhaps a bit late for that comment), I hate walking backwards with a bar on my back. To the point of looking for any excuse not to do it. This makes squats – at least until I find myself...

Aching All Over – Time for Grip Work

I often wake up thinking about deadlifting. This morning my thoughts were centred around a hot bath filled with Radox Muscle Soak. After flicking through yesterday’s workout notes, and not seeing anything particularly unusual (other than higher volume/shorter...

And it’s only Tuesday

This week’s shaping up to be a busy one. With yesterday’s workout unfortunately being sacrificed to the God of Time, today’s was back to full-force benching. The combination of a cold day and waking with a stiff neck prompted a longer-than-usual...