2022 Workload Audit

Mark Brown March 13, 2022 2022 Low Bar Squat Deadlift Flat Dumbbell Press Narrow Grip Incline Press Overhead Dumbbell Press Floor Press  High Bar Squat  Sumo Deadlift  Leg Press  Incline Dumbbell Press Bench Press Standing Overhead Press Week 1 8,475 5,810 3,675 2,785 2,200 2,370 8,560 3,225 29,436 5,085 3,835 2,010 Week 2 8,445 5,975 …

Realizations of Success

Mark Brown March 9, 2022 March 8, 2022 I went to the movie theater after work. That day was a Tuesday. Tuesday after work is normally when I do isolation based lifts that include curls, pushdowns and pulldowns on biceps, triceps and lats, respectively. I was at the movie theater because my middle and lower …

Deadlift: Part 2

Chapter 2: Lifting Through the Eccentric Phase Mark Brown March 2, 2022 Deadlifts are done as part of game time and practice time for lifters. What that means is that there is different ways to approach training deadlifts. When done in competitions or to practice for competitions, usually only the concentric part of the lift …

My Current Plan

Updating my Winter Plan Mark Brown February 25, 2022 Since the second week of the new year, I have been working on a program of my own design in the gym. I wrote about my winter plan around the the turn of the year and I have followed what I said I was going to …

Going Over Every Damned Hill

Stop picking and choosing which ones to die on Mark Brown February 16, 2022 Selecting a metaphor for figuring out what specific things hold more importance than others is far from a hard task. The media scene in 2022 is full of opinion pieces called “takes” in which a media member renders their verdict on …