Overview

Imagine this — You acquire a workout program from your personal trainer, buy one online, or even get everyone’s best mate these days, ChatGPT 🤖, to generate one for you. All excited, you rock up at the gym on Monday, ready to start training.

The problem? You now have to juggle at least two things on your phone:

1. The workout program — usually in PDF, Word, or Excel format.
2. Your logging application.

I’ve been doing it this way for years. It works… but it’s a pain in my ass.

You might say, hang on — couldn’t you just recreate the PDF or Excel program inside your training app? Yes, you can. But again — what a pain in the ass. Finding each exercise in a database and building it out on a 6.2-inch touchscreen? Not ideal.

Overview

Reading is something I have a love–hate relationship with. I can go years without reading anything, and then — all of a sudden — boom 💣, I read a ton. Around 2016 I was in a reading streak and even did some book reviews on my then-WordPress site. Unfortunately, I didn’t back that work up properly, so here we go again.

In these book reviews my intention isn’t to write what the book already says word for word — that’s what the book is for, right? Instead, I want to summarize each book in a way that allows me to return to it in a few months or years and grasp the gist without rereading the entire thing. Bonus if it helps someone else too — including the authors!

Enough of the preamble — here is my summary of The Muscle & Strength Pyramid — Training, Second Edition.

Overview

My network architecture has grown more complex over time, especially since I am self-hosting the website you are currently reading.

This post will serve two functions:

1. So that I do not have sleepless nights six months from now when I need to update something 😄.
2. To be useful to someone else — and if you see something obviously wrong, let me know.

Overview

Let’s walk through the hardware I currently use to support everything running in my homelab.

In a later post, I’ll go into how the modem, switch, and operating system are configured to support all this madness 🧑‍🔬

Overview

This was my first time ever competing in anything like this — and what a journey it turned out to be.

Overview

After running the phase2 program for a couple of months its time to transition into phase3.

The program will be a 4 day bro split and I will use it for 2-4 weeks.