Good morning, Squat Squad. I trust you are all well rested after yesterday, and used your time profitably to other good things. Life is, after all, considerably too short to squander on inactive rest days. Are you limbered up and raring to go? No? You have all had a very narrow escape today, because what …
Month: January 2018
We have a natural tendency to do the things we like doing and are good at doing over the things we are not good at, obviously. We also tend to avoid things we know we can’t do. As we get older this gets worse as we become more entrenched in our ways and less open …
I’m sorry, skwaaterati, no squats today (unless you are one of the day behind people in which case today is yesterday and you won’t be getting to this until tomorrow, in which case…. I don’t know… I guess you’re squatting now and the bear awaits. Whatever. It is early and I have had insufficient coffee …
It’s Monday morning and already we’re channeling Pat Benatar. What the hell kind of week is this going to be, I hear you ask yourselves? A good week for squatting, that’s what. well done all of you who have made it this far, well done one for realising that you actually need to click the …
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s the start of a whole new week in the Team Rhomboid 30 day Beginner Squat Challenge and now we have the basics down, it’s to cast away our chairs, throw off our mental chains, pick up our stethoscopes and… squat. We are now at the halfway …
… and it’s the end-ish of our second week of squatting and we are back into the 40 rep days! 40? 40?!!? Billy Rhomboid, are you kidding us? We did 30 yesterday and now our bottoms are made of sadness, and you want us to do 40? Hell to the yeah. You have that technique …
So, Team, how did you get on yesterday with the videoing? How was that form looking? What were those knees doing? How firm was that booty? I didn’t see anyone brave enough to post their video, but I am assuming that is because you are all such a modest and conservative lot. As I mentioned …
Welcome to the Squat Challenge Week 2 Day 4. Video Kills the Squats Below Par. Was there ever a more tortured pun? A propos of torture, while you were all off sipping daquiris and being pampered by scantily clad hand and quad servants during rest day yesterday, I had Leg Day, so did sets of …
Since I started my fitness journey or life transformaton or whatever you want to call it, I have read an enormous number of books and articles, watched thousands of You Tube videos and documentaries and TV programmes and listened to hours and hours of podcasts and audio books on health, fitness, nutrition, self improvement, psychology, …