Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday March 8, 2010
What’s all this about?
So, with the race behind me I’ve decided to finally spend some time addressing the shortcomings in my strength foundation… properly this time. I’m going to spend at least 12-16 weeks on a variation of the Westside Barbellprogram, primarily for the same reason Red is on Starting Strength: because it works, but also because Brother [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Thursday February 18, 2010
Maybe you know it?
The first time I entered I was rendered to spectatorship and the best riders I knew crawl out of the forest, broken men. Monsters ordinarily, their faces were fixed into grimaces and thousand-yard stares well before the finish line. Jim pulled out, sat down and wouldn’t stop yabbering about umbrellas, such was his [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Saturday December 19, 2009
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
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Neil made a good observation about my perception of ‘cycling ROM’ in jumping squats:
Cycling ROM is 35 cm (175 mm cranks).
Duh!
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Sunday November 1, 2009
It was some time ago that I last read this classic from Again Faster. Before I had a daughter. Claire is now 20 months old and loves – as pretty much all kids do – running everywhere, trying pick up the 24kg kettlebell, knocking over the little ones and hanging from the gymnastic rings until, [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday October 19, 2009
When my friends and I used to lift the old six foot bar with cement filled weights, we all thought we were pretty strong. Then, Dad would ask us to help him move a car engine or open a rusted jar of nuts and bolts, or put the ping pong table up on a rack [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday October 12, 2009
Stretching and foam rolling.
3 x 3 ring dips while Fee did 30 min on the trainer, 6 x 20:10 Tabata-style intervals to end. :)
Low carb / mod-high saturated fat paleo is looking more and more like the way to go:
Dr BG: Low-carb paleo, nothing’s impossible
Mat Lalonde’s six-week LC/Paleo CrossFit experiment on Robb’s ever-awesome blog.
Also: [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday July 7, 2009
Basically…
Not training and eating all kinds of nasty carbs.
With Dee and Ryan here to ‘babysit’ sleeping Claire, Fee and I went out for a nice tea. Kingfish followed by the most insane tiramisu, accommpanied by shaved, frozen espresso. Hot damn.
While we’re feeling all carbed up, let’s learn a little bit more about what people mean [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Saturday March 21, 2009
I don’t remember when I last did … nothing for a week without being sick.
Claire came down with a cold and fever early in the week and had long bouts of midnight crying. Sleep was not good. Work got a little crazy and I’ve been investigating a few out of hours project ideas, which has [...]
