Haven’t logged much in a little while. Been doing small, sporadic little workout sessions, mostly picking up the kettlebell for a few drills, some qi gong and yoga exercises, and a good longsword session. Today, I went hardcore. A little strength, a litte METCON. A good bit of sweat. I think I needed it. I’d [...]
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Fried Forearms, With A Side Order Of Sweat
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Music, Physical Training, tagged Health & Fitness, kettlebells, Martial Art, Physical Training on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Twist Added
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged Health & Fitness, kettlebells, Physical Training, qi gong, yoga on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two more little PTs from this weekend to document. Both were late in the evening (1930 or later). Saturday Similar to last Sunday’s, this was a simple kettlebell protocol using the 24 kg bell. After warming up with several minutes of loose striking on the heavy bag and floor movements, I did two sets of [...]
Brute Force, Averted
Posted in Fasting, Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I took a week or two off from heavy physical training, and today, I’ve broken that fast. I was getting worn down by a lot of time at work, odd times at home, tension of various sorts, etc. And was just feeling like I needed to take a PT break, so I did. Today, I’m [...]
Recent Events
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged anabolic diet, carb cycling, Health & Fitness, heavy bag, kettlebells, mauro dipasquale, Physical Training, slow carb diet, tim ferriss on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The weeks before this last, I was going through Scott Sonnon’s TACFIT Kettlebell. I had done the pre-recruit level with the 16 kg bell, and had a good time of it. A couple of weeks ago, I started training on the “Recruit”-level moves, and I really like them! I also upped the bell to the [...]
Today’s Twofer
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged afro celt sound system, Health & Fitness, kettlebells, Martial Art, Physical Training on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So today, I did an early, then a late PT. Just kinda worked out that way. Going back to yesterday (Saturday), first… it was a pretty explosive session, which included lots of heavy bag with stick and limbs for the pre-fatiguing/warm up. Then went into the tabata protocol of 20/10 that I’ve been using a [...]
Training Daze
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged archery, Health & Fitness, kettlebells, Martial Art, Physical Training, society for creative anachronism on October 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some work from today, yesterday, and Sunday. Sunday I went with the roommate over to visit some folks that are big into the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) thing. It’s the worldwide group that “celebrates the Middle Ages as they should have been.” Super good peeps, they took me right in as if we’d known [...]
Wrestling Seminar After Action Report
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Philosophy, Physical Training, tagged Martial Art, phoenix arms historical trainin, ringen, wrestling on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Summary report for our “Ringen,” or wrestling seminar at the University of Mary Washington. The Phoenix Arms Historical Training Group held a UMW student-only seminar based mostly on Medieval German “Ringen,” or wrestling, on Saturday. It was a great success, and a lot of fun. Writes Chris Wheeler on our website: Seminar Training Summary Photos [...]
Toofer Today/Bury My Beer At Wounded Knee
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, Travel, tagged Health & Fitness, kettlebells, Martial Art, Physical Training, pikes peak, tabata, Travel on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Back a couple of days ago from Colorado Springs, CO. Looks to be the last time in a while I’ll be back there, though you never know. Whilst I was out there, I managed three or four pretty decent PT sessions, with varying combos of bodyweight work, the cable tower they have there, and a [...]
Sunday Funday And The Swing Set
Posted in Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged controlled fatigue training, kettlebells, Physical Training, tabata on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Much like presidenting, this workout can be hard. Sunday, I started off with a “Ladder” pattern, alternating pull ups and push ups. Both were slightly levered (feet up on a ladder for the pull ups, and feet one half-step down on the stairs landing). For a refresher, the Ladder goes a little something like this: [...]
Ring My Pe-e-ell, Ring My Pell
Posted in Fasting, Health & Fitness, Martial Art, Physical Training, tagged intermittent fasting, kettlebells, longsword, Martial Art, pell, Physical Training, running on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh, summer. Today was only up in the mid-nineties (ºF) and about 1000% humidity during the middle of the day, so I decided to take a run with my jo. About thirty minutes later, back at home, I grabbed my new sword trainer (steel blunt) and went whacking at my new pell the roommate and [...]
