I walked outside this afternoon and as blinded by that glowing orb in the sky. I think it was the sun, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen it, I wasn’t certain. Seriously, I think it’s rained every day this week. Does the Midwest have monsoon season now? I haven’t logged very many miles on my bike lately due to the rain. I can work around summer heat, but forget riding in the rain. I’m going to drag myself out of bed tomorrow morning and ride while we have a brief break in the precip. Hopefully my legs will be less sore tomorrow because I killed them at the gym yesterday. New PR in hip thrusts- 4 sets of 10 at 135 pounds. What’s a hip thrust? A super strange looking yet super-effective exercise for your gluteus.
Yes, I actually do those. Yes, I get a lot of stares and weird questions. I don’t care, because it works. Bret Contreras is known as the Glute Guy, and for good reason. People may think the squat is the king of booty building, but it’s not. Bret has done Electromyography (EMG) experiments concerning the glutes and here are the results:
Sorry, I kind of got off on a tangent. I geek out on the technical stuff. If I had unlimited time and money, I’d go back and get a degree in kinesiology. But, hey, I work for a living. 😉 Anyhow, I’ve hit a plateau in my training so starting tomorrow afternoon I’m going to be working with someone to help me break through that plateau. I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve seen the other people he’s trained and I’m impressed. It’s probably going to kick my butt, but that’s exactly what I need.
On a completely unrelated note, my son and I like to find the worst 80s song and share it with each other. (Yeah, we’re weird.)My choice this week was Tone Loc’s Funky Cold Medina.
After I played it for him he said,”so it’s basically a song about putting a roofie in a woman’s drink?” I told him that I don’t think we had Rophynol in the U.S. in the 1980s. But basically, he’s right. Kind of creepy when you think of it that way. He also asked me about Spuds MacKenzie. Remember him? I told him that I had a Spuds MacKenzie t-shirt back in the day and I actually had a picture of it. Well, a picture of his dad wearing it. He thought it was hilarious that we could wear the same shirt.
Wow, I couldn’t even look tan when I lived in Hawaii. If you can’t tan there, you can’t tan anywhere. Actually, I look like I had a sunburn. I think I always had a sunburn. Did we have sunscreen in the 80s? I can’t remember using it. No wonder I’ve had skin cancer, is it?
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