I love the gym so much. Last night, I’m doing a barbell complex over on the Olympic rack when this happens: “Oh hey, what’s up?” I don’t look over, unsure if he’s talking to me, sure I don’t want to talk to him. “Yeah, man, I’m just at the gym. Lifting some weights. Heavy weights.”…
Category: Gyms
What are those funny-colored plates?
I talked about how excited I was when the Aspen Club got bumper plates. Each plate is a different color for its weight, and I love them. Yesterday, I got a chance to love them for a different reason: humor! A man who was previously using the leg press came up to me as I…
A new gym gem
They just keep coming! Today, doing a CrossFit Football workout (5 rounds: 155# max reps back squat / 7 burpee box jumps 20″) at the ritzy gym in Aspen (which is quite the distinction), a trainer at the gym was watching me while training and talking to his client. He has seen me in here…
Lots of Travelin’
I fully intended to write a full post on the Chicago airport gym, but now it swirls around in my head with the other travelin’ gyms and workouts I did, so it will just be one of a list: Chicago: Hilton hotel gym at the airport (you DO have to leave security). Has an Olympic…
Improvise
I walked to three parks in Aspen today looking for a good “fireman’s pole” on a playground to use as my rope for the rope climbs in today’s .com workout. Alas, I was stymied at every single one, so it was down to the bridge and I was resigned to sub something for rope climbs…
Aspen Club Swimming & TRX
You might have seen my tweet last week about .com’s Swim WOD. I did it, and it sucked. I am not a swimmer. I have always considered myself a good swimmer, as in unafraid to drown. But lap-swimming? Not for me. Naturally, once I learn I am bad at something, I must learn to get…
BlissFits Boot Camp!
I’ve told everyone else over every medium I have about it, I can’t believe I haven’t told you guys about my new boot camp! I’m coaching a BlissFits Aspen boot camp in Nature’s Garage Gym at Rio Grande Park in Aspen. I started Monday with 5 people in the rain, had 3 yesterday in the…
See ya at Sectionals!
OK, that’s not true, I’ll mainly be seeing myself at Sectionals … but I did go ahead and compete in the first WOD. It’ll only get harder from here as I have to film myself doing the WODs … in my “normal” commercial gym … awkward! But nonetheless, I am committed. http://games.crossfit.com/ My first go at…
I <3 Red Black Gym
Y’all know I like my workouts to look like play … Nature’s Garage Gym was my own personal playground, and then I did workouts on an actual playground. Well today I got to return to my roots at the Red Black Gym (nee SicFit) with the 1:15pm class with Big Mike. LOVED IT! Warmup: lots of…
Hey, can we snatch with you?
I’m at the gym tonight working on a 1 rep snatch max so I can partake in a fun CrossFit Austin workout (which, it turns out, I later mangled anyway). A few guys are also in there working out, and they’re not slouches–one of them is doing almost-handstand-pushups suspended from the TRX (the point? not…