David Chu, Fitness Satirist, Personal Trainer
Fitness That's Not Witless
During the winter, I got quite sick around the new year. I wasn’t myself for weeks, and so I got out of shape. Not like gaining a ton of weight or anything, just not as fit as I like to be. Finally, my strength started to return, and with a new gym membership in hand [...]
In my ongoing new regimen, today I pushed my best up to 8 one-leg squats per leg! Hey, at this rate, why not shoot for ten? (I also got another personal best for pull-ups). With the squats, I’ve found that my left leg performs a little better than my right – the left leg is [...]
Continuing my latest workout tale, another part of my new workout was to return to the squat. I had been working the lower body with Turkish get-ups for a few months, a very productive and fun exercise that truly works almost the entire body, and I was using it as my sole lower body exercise [...]
I’m on a new regimen of this great exercise! I started with just one rep with each leg using dumbbell counterweights. So I’m going to use this spot to track my progress: As of 8/12, I’m up to a personal best of 6 reps per leg, no counterweights! It was a near maximal effort, and [...]