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JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON

Seems like everyone has a blog these days, who am I to go against the flow?

My goal is to keep family and friends updated on what I am doing. Since day by day I seem to get busier and busier and forget to tell people things like, oh yeah I moved or quit this job and started a couple businesses. Funny, I found time to do this though. I hope to update it every day. Anyway there may be some rants and raves on this page, I will try to keep it positive mostly and hopefully WFS. No promises, but I will try to warn you. Sorry Grandma and Grandpa there are going to be lots of videos and pictures on here you won't be able to view. Unless you get a different computer!!

As far as making this page "pretty" good luck. I am not so computer savoy. Be on the watch for random design changes or experiments.

OK today is day one of my workout cycle (3 on 1 off)
5 Rounds For Time:
9 Reps Hang Squat Clean (HSC) 115#
9 Gymnastics Kip Pullups with blue band

14:55


The prescribed work out was 3 rope climbs or a million (i can't remember but it was a lot) towel pull ups instead of the gymnastics pull ups. I need to work on chest to bar pull ups if I want to not scale at the regional qualifiers. I don't plan on placing really high there, but I would like to be top 50%. But only if I don't scale.

Today is also day two of my quest to EAT MORE. I am looking to be at more 2-2.3K calories instead of .9-1.5K. However I got a little carb crazy the past few days. Creamy honey and fruit are my crack.

Here is video of me deadlifting 240# x 3 rep. This is 5# away from my most recent 1 rep max. I have picked up 264# many moons ago, but have been battling bad form. I am finally on the road to better form and am making fast gains. Whew! The sooner I beat my old record the sooner I can get to a 300# deadlift!
Meriah DL 240X3 from Meriah on Vimeo.

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