Category: Strength training
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Physical confidence
By Jay Hiller, September 2, 2023 Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash When I’d only be doing yoga a few years, I went to a class where I was given this instruction for Warrior I: “You know, mmmmmmmm.” I didn’t know what that was supposed to mean, and when I thought about that instruction, I…
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Exercise and optimism
by Jay Hiller, August 31, 2023 Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash My week included a bunch of dumb worky-work stuff, a Tuesday night with only two hours of sleep and two days of sub-optimal amounts of exercise. When I got home this afternoon, I felt down and lethargic. I didn’t make my way toward…
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Shaking off the blahs: today’s upper body workout
by Jay Hiller, December 20, 2022 This is not me. Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash I felt lethargic when I got home from work this afternoon, which surprised me. I thought I could take a day off yesterday and shake things off. It would have been easy to sit on the couch today. Part…
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Next little challenge
by Jay Hiller, October 6, 2022 Is it really only Wednesday? You can change your location but you can’t change that there’s always going to be frustrations and personalities. I’m trying to accept that without falling into a state of inaction. Fortunately, work takes a lot of time but it’s not the only part of…
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Equipment Review: Lebert Fitness Equalizer Bars
By Jay Hiller, September 30, 2022 I bought a pair of EQ bars a few years ago because I was tired of doing inverted rows under my kitchen table. Critics of them say that you can do a lot of the stuff people use them for with other equipment. That might or might not be…
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Don’t skip the intervals
by Jay Hiller, August 19, 2022 My friend thinks that a run of minor injuries she sustained while working out are because she was skipping the intervals. You probably already know that a workout can be organized into sets of exercises with breaks in between the sets, the intervals. An example would be 3 sets…