Overview

Everyone wants to be a millionaire (including me 😂), but like most things in life — and contrary to what we tell kids — you cannot be whatever you want, nor have everything you want. This applies to most people.

Overview

Now you might be thinking 🤔, why would you ever want to have your own exercise database.

The short answer

It is cool as hell 🆒 and it`s what all the cool kids are doing!!! 😂

The real answer

In BBnote I aim to determine all sorts of information based on only the exercise selections, as such this information needs to be added to some kind of database per exercise.

Now you might be wondering — doesn’t this already exist in someone else’s database? Yes, more than likely, though I am sure its not free and I will not be learning anything interesting. Sucker for punishment I guess 😂

Overview

I am planning on competing at the Aoteroa Strength Alliance Rosetown Posedown show happening on the 6th June 2026, this means I need to get my diet in order.

Overview

You’ve seen the competition photos — I posted them everywhere 👍. I’m proud of what I achieved. What you probably haven’t seen is where I started, and how long it took to build the physique in those photos.

It was definitely not a walk in the park.

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.