As I’ve detailed plenty of times before I had shoulder surgery three years ago to repair a torn rotator cuff and labrum. I’ve also torn my trap on that same side in the past, so the shoulder is pretty jacked up.
Because of this I spent the majority of the last three years doing tons of pushup variations on the floor, the Jungle Gym XT, medicine balls, etc. Any time I tried to press dumbbells or a bar the pain was just too much to deal with and I had become [...]
“I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death.”
Nas- New York State of Mind
I was supposed to be Eminem. At least that’s the way I saw it back in ’88. It was my freshman year of high school and the Beastie Boys were yet to be taken seriously, so I figured I could be the first great white rapper. I practiced my rhymes all the time and just knew that within a few years I’d be on tour opening for Public Enemy. Then 3rd Bass came along and crushed [...]
Training’s been going pretty well lately. The shoulder still bothers me but has been feeling a lot better and is coming along. Now I have a new injury to deal with. I’m a big fan of overdoing things. Well, lemme rephrase that actually… I am not so much a fan of it as I am someone who routinely overdoes things. It’s one of the many things I have in common with Clark Griswold.
I’ve been doing a lot of running lately. Hill sprints, flat ground sprints, sled sprints and cone/agility drills. [...]
The last post I wrote about how to improve your chin ups detailed how to get from zero to one. Once you get to one you will, in time, work your way up to sets of five or even ten reps. But again, you will hit a wall at some point and be unable to make any more improvements.
So today I am going to offer a very easy, completely unscientific method that will help you add more reps to your chins.
One of the major problems is that for most average [...]
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