Even MORE Lessons! Mark Brown January 25, 2022 Lesson 5: Specialty bars are luxuries. The ultimate gym accessories are specialty bars. Yes, lat pulldown machines, t-bar rows and landmines are all very useful accessories but they don’t compare much to bars in the grand scheme of things. I use those 3 specific examples because they …
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2023 Week 3 Training Log
January 16 – 22 Mark Brown January 23, 2023 MondayScheduled rest day – recovery TuesdayFree squat, straight bar – 135 x 6, 225 x 6, 315 x 3, x 3, x 3, x 3; 345 x 3, x 3, x 3, x 3Leg press, outside low position – 388 x 15, 478 x 15, 568 …
Building a Better Home Gym, Part 2
More Lessons Experienced Over the Last 2 Years Mark Brown January 19, 2023 Lesson 3: Take inventory of the resources that can be thrown at the project before buying anything. The word budget tends to call money to the mind, but it applies to everything that can be called a limited resource. It will determine …
2023 Week 2 Training Log
January 9 – 15, 2023 Mark Brown January 16, 2023 MondayScheduled rest day – Recovery TuesdayFree squat, straight bar – 135 x 6, 225 x 6, 315 x 3, x 3; 345 x 3, x 3; 365 x 3, x 3; 385 x 3, x 3; 405 x 2Straight leg deadlift, from floor pronated grip …
Building a Better Home Gym
Lessons Experienced Over The Past 2 Years Mark Brown January 12, 2023 I started lifting in high school for baseball in my senior year of high school then stopped for reasons that I there is no real explanation for. When I started doing it again in 2013, I worked out through a commercial gym chain …
2023 Week 1 Training Log
January 2 – 8, 2023 Mark Brown January 9, 2023 MondayScheduled Rest Day – Keeping on schedule TuesdayFree Squat, Straight Bar – 135 x 6, 225 x 6. 315 x 3, x 3; 345 x 3, x 3; 345 x 3, x 3; 365 x 3, x 3; 385 x 3, x 3Stiff Leg Deadlift …
2022 Year In Review Part 4
Bench Press Development Mark Brown December 29, 2022 Squat might be the lift that improved the most in 2022, but bench press is the one that got the most stable in terms of raw, repeatable strength. I thought going into this year that getting to 315 pounds with the lifting structure I finished 2021 with …
2022 Year In Review Part 2
Squat Development Mark Brown December 27, 2022 Going into 2022, the squat was the weakest of my main lifts. I restarted squatting in summer of 2020 after a year and half break from it. I have been doing it much more consistently since the summer of 2021. During a 12 week program that was more …
2022 Week 51 Training Log
December 19 – 25, 2022 Mark Brown December 26, 2022 MondayScheduled Rest Day – Recovery TuesdayFree Squat, Straight Bar Low Bar – 135 x 6, 225 x 6, 315 x 3, x 3; 345 x 3, x 3; 365 x 3, x 3; 385 x 2, x 2Calf Raises, Single Leg R then L – …
2022 Year in Review
Part 1: General Overview Mark Brown December 25, 2022 This year has been a period of progress in my strength training. It also saw multiple shifts in my thought process towards lifting and everything that goes into it. Certain areas and lifts saw more improvement than others did. I will detail them in subsequent entries. …
Life Through Lifting 