I headed out to The Land of 10,000 Lakes to shoot a feature and realized one of my favorite things about traveling is coming across a state slogan or saying I’ve never heard before. It’s like a little fortune cookie– a random surprise waiting to be cracked open and playfully …
1. Standard Bicep Curls: Using my workout band (with only one foot on the band—plenty of resistance for my bis) tucking elbows close to my side and keeping them as stationary as I can I lift both handles, palms facing ceiling, toward shoulders, giving biceps an extra squeeze at the …
Remember when I was all “Tomorrow, it’s biceps or bust!” Well, it was a bust. We didn’t get back from our shoot until 11pm and with an early flight the next morning, it was clear Biceps Day was not happening and it wouldn’t the next day either. I wasn’t scheduled …
1. Overhead Shoulder Presses with a Twist: I started out with one foot holding the band but it wasn’t quite enough resistance so I switched to 2 feet on the band making sure the length was equal on either side. You can do shoulder presses a bunch of ways, I …
I can tell Jonathan is worried. My competition training just started, and I’ve been gone for most of the week, working on a story in Southern California. Jonathan knows my checkered past with traveling. First of all, the only exercise I tend to do on the road is churn out …
1. Pull-ups- the regular old-school kind- as many as I could do, which was 2. 2. Then using a pull-up machine that …
Day One: I head to the gym where Jonathan begins with a thorough assessment of said extra-curricular inches: “We’ve got A LOT …
