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swole

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

When you are a 5′6″, 130# female, who’s current – hey, back injury, what’s up? – max deadlift is somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 lbs., how do you climb back on the lifting horse?
Obviously, you follow a periodization scheme developed by a man whose traps look like the result of plate techtonics.
I’m a month [...]

oy, my aching everything

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Ow, my hamstrings. Ow, my quads. Ow, my abs, my butt, my chest, and my shoulders.
I started working out again over Thanksgiving and oh, am I paying the price. I’ve done it before – those first few weeks when you start working out again after a months-long hiatus – oy, the discomfort. My kingdom for [...]