Tag: lunges

  • Lunges vs Me

    Once again I meet up with my nemesis – the walking lunge but with a twist — pressing the 20lb dumbbells over your head. I think this is probably one of my very very very LEAST favorite exercises and then to have to do it for 50 yards – that’s just overkill and mean. Mikey…

  • Lunges rip me to the core…

    Today’s workout camp was not one of my best performances – The workout was just too hard – the combo of the heat and weights I lifted — let’s just say it was not good. Something about doing lunges just totally gets to my core — and almost brings me to tears. It mentally wears…

  • Hot, Hot, and more Hot

    I’m sore from the lunges yesterday so I was grunting and groaning a lot today. Oh and did I mention it was hot! This will be a common theme summer long – Hot, Hot, and more Hot. I can’t imagine how it is for those that go in the afternoon camps. There is no shade…

  • Here’s to Improvement

    I have said this before – getting up can be tough and this morning was no exception. That alarm went off and my brain searched for a reason to turn it off and roll over, but it couldn’t find any excuse good enough – it is so automatic now, I can’t even find a good…

  • Thursday & the dreaded lunges

    Plumbline Training: Warmup x 2: high knees lunges heel to butt sprints Core x 2 general stretching planks good mornings (lean over and then jump up) 50 push-ups workout: 1 mile run 15,12,10,9,6,3 box push-ups x 2 25db lunges (aka HELL) 65lb OH push press 45lb sandbag dead lifts x 2 My run time today…

  • A crisp day for a run!

    As much as I wanted to sleep in today – I had made plans to meet a co-worker/friend of mine James who started running 3 weeks ago. He is doing a 5k next week and has been running to get ready for it. We met on the W&OD trail. If you remember, I told my…