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Bodyweight 500

I did the Turbulence Training workout called Bodyweight 500. It's a killer - it was even harder than I expected.

I completed it in 34 minutes. The 25 pull-ups and 25 chin-ups are the toughest parts.

Lift of the Day - Overhead Squats

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Overhead Squat:



Man, do those kill.

Poem of the Day - Longing

Longing

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!

Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

-Matthew Arnold

My new favorite workout book

More in-depth analysis later, but I am enamored with Men's Health Power Training by Robert dos Remedios.

I have been following the program seriously for about three weeks, with a build up week before that to try out some of the new exercises.

In a nutshell, the programs are based on explosive, athletic lifting movements, and it includes many body-weight exercises including pull ups, pushups and the like, with Swiss-ball variations, or movements in different planes.






An example is the jacknife pushup, here shown with a Swiss ball rotation:

New from The Hold Steady

A few new tunes The Hold Steady have been playing on tour:

Ask Her For Some Adderall:



Joke About Jamaica (or D'Yer Mak'er), full of Zep references:



Lord, I'm Discouraged:



Sequestered in Memphis:



There are also reports of "One Townie Falls" being played live, but no Youtube so far.

Here is a link to the Hype Machine post with The Hold Steady's cover of Bob Dylan's "Can I Please Crawl Out Your Window."