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May 2011

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I’m (Upper) Back!

Today I conducted a simple, but exhausting routine to strengthen my back. Bent barbell rows at 60kg Chin-ups T-bar rows at 65kg (+10kg bar) Shrugs at 60, 100 and 120kg (at this point my grip gave up) High-rep kroc rows at 20kg An elongated period of back stretches. Admittedly, it wasn't aimed at ...

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Metatraining

I went for a run on Friday (20/05/2011). A real run. Outside, in the world... It didn’t go very well. Or rather, it went very well for the first ten minutes or so. Around about then, however, I noticed a growing pain in my lower back. A mile or so later and the pain started getting wors...

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Pain. The Good Kind.

On Monday, I wanted to do legs. I know, I know - it sounds ridiculous. Nobody wants to do legs, it's just something you have to do. Well, not this time. I actually really did want to do some legs work at the gym, because of my up-coming half-marathon and insane bike-ride from Helheimr. Altho...

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Busy busy busy!

Life has become about as busy as it could possibly be. Or at least it feels that way. I have, therefore, sadly not had time to blog the last couple of days of Ed vs. Sport. I hope the following summary will suffice: Chest Routine of 10.05.2011: Bench presses: 50, 90, 95 and 98kg Incline dumbbell ...

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A Pain in the Arse. Literally.

Yesterday was legs day at the gym. Having read an interesting article on leg development (and because I require endurance for my half marathon), I decided to take down the weight and go for a higher number of reps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqJp5OAYdU The result - I could barely even walk th...

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Something, something, chin up.

Excited by my recent technique development, I went back to the gym to experiment with dumbbell presses. Frustratingly, I cannot remember exactly what I did and in what order. I recall the following: Dumbbell presses at 40kg Incline barbell presses at 70kg Chin-ups Triceps push-downs at 35kg The...

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Gig Time…

I know it's not strictly Ed vs Sport-related, but yesterday was my band's final official gig... Though I long to explicate in wondrous prose and expound the myriad virtues of our performance…alas I cannot. As the ancients uttered long before we knew such wisdom: I was blinded by the rock…and...

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