Book Reviews

  • This whole week has been a little bit of a mess. Somethings have stayed consistent, but I’ll be transitioning to a new program this week. Training: I pushed back my last day of the 25 rep week of week 9 of the hypertrophy and recovery program because I had my ACFT the previous Saturday. I

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  • In considering the field of healthcare, there are four pillars. These pillars are disease management, quality of life/healthspan, longevity, and performance. We may want all of these things, but there are obvious competing demands.  Traditional medical care has a focus on disease management. If you go to your traditional annual physical you are provided with

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  • It’s been a busy couple weeks. Today I felt completely drained. I haven’t had a day where I didn’t work in about three months. The next three months will be a little bit of a grind. Overall, things are going well it’s just trying to make a last push prior to major changes. Training: Week

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  • Training Log 4.30.23

    I’ve done a really poor job lately of writing. I will say this is due to a number of competing factors for time, but it’s a failure on my part and I need to start understanding the value of reflection. The next year is going to be busy and wild. I assume there will be

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  • Training Log 4.2.23

    Training: Post Deployment – Recovery and Hypertrophy Week 4I’ve thought this has been a good program to come off the A2S and this has continued through the first block. This past week I was on vacation and training at different gyms. I’m surprised how much I’m feeling this in my hamstrings. Felt good to finish

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  • Training Log 3.19.23

    Training: Started Dan John’s Recovery and Hypertrophy program and I’m in the second week. So far I’ve liked it. The workouts are pretty quick, and I feel like I’ve needed to add in the weighted carry work. I modified the goal weights pretty significantly because when I’ve run it in the past I thought the

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  • Program Overview:  I’ve previously discussed the basics of this in a previous write up on the program. It’s overall a linear periodization 16 week program (progressive increase in intensity over time), that has several other training concepts mixed in. Training max increases based on max rep sets. It’s based around the powerlifting movements and is

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  • Training Log 2.26.23

    Training: A2S 1.0 week 11 Not the best week of training. We were dog sitting and this threw a wrench in the schedule yet again. Got sick going into the week with just a 6 hour GI bug and lost 5lb and was 199lb for the first time in a while. Squat day hit 490×3,

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  • RR 39 – Addictions

    For some reason my learning this month has primarily focused on addictions. There was Dr. Anna Lembke on the Knowledge Project. I’ve been working through Paul Chek’s 1-2-3-4 On Obesity, Addiction, and Disease. And reading through Codependent No More. Then I had a good conversation with my best friend talking about levels of thinking and

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  • Training Log 2.19.23

    Training: Average to Savage 1.0 Week 10I feel like life is very up and down right now. Training this week has been good. Just feel like I’m not really good or really bad I’m just training. Squat: 460×5,430×5, 405×16. Bench 295×5, 280×5, 260×15. Deads 495×6, 3×3. OHP 195×5, 185×5, 170×13. Running: Last week I hit

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