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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

666: the number of the feast

As any weightlifter knows, protein is an integral part of any diet. To this end I was picking up some chicken and whole milk the other day and you can imagine my amusement when it came time to hand over my shiny pennies that this was the amount owed:

Rock on!

Home time is a little closer

Before calling it a day last night I pushed out another release of my “toy” web-application, hometi.me. Thank you Capistrano!
I mentioned last month that I was intending on following the “release early, release often” paradigm with this project, but as always, life had other plans and I found myself doing very little hacking outside of [...]

Current strength training program

For nearly 3 months my strength training has revolved around squatting 3 times a week and this is my current program:

Monday

Front squat
Neutral-grip chin up
Parallel bar dip

Wednesday

Back squat
Overhead press
Row

Friday

Front squat
Dumbbell bench press
Deadlift

All squats are done to below parallel with all free-weight exercises being performed for 3 sets of 5 repetitions, after warm-ups, with the exception of [...]