Friday, February 22, 2008

Happy Friday

I've been back in the gym yesterday and today. Nobody showed up this morning so I didn't have a real inspiring experience, but I cranked it out anyway. Yesterday was a really good one. Did some light deadlifts and more hamstring work. Tried some one arm clean-and-presses with dumbells. Three sets of ten on each side got me breathing and sweating like a big fat guy should. Loved the exercise though. Definately a good one to put in the archives. Then I decided to do some grip work, as I recently found that my grip is comperable to that of a fetus. A girl one. So anyhow, the gym finally got a set of 100lb DBs. Its a start. I picked em up and just held onto them for a bout 30 seconds. Four rounds of that and my forearms were deffinately pumped. I felt really great after that workout. I don't think it's going to take a lot to improve my hand strength quite a bit. Now if I can just figure out how to get a big tire off the ground faster...

1 comment:

c said...

Wow, you do have some wussy li'l hands. Get a hangboard. It works the muscles that connect to yer distal phalanges, and that's what you're using to pick up tires and kegs with anyhow, and you'll always be working with 200+lbs. (body weight) and it's fun.

The one arm jerks sound kinda cool. Gotta hand it to you, the strongman workouts sho' nuff sound more interesting than most.