All posts for tag "Life"

I Learned My Wife Is Pregnant

Mar 16, 2025

What a thing to learn your wife is pregnant. Its kind of anti-climactic. I imagine the birth is a bigger deal, but similarly just a moment that comes and goes. This will be our first, and we are very excited! I suggested to my wife that we take time each evening before bed to start listening to a books together, and she thought that was a swell idea. So, we started listening to The Power of Showing Up, a book I saw suggested on Reddit. Interested to see what sorts of things we learn together and any discussions / differing ideas we have when it comes to child rearing.

TIL: I Like Hybrid Weighted Body Weight Exercises

Mar 10, 2025

Context

I have a goal for this year (2025) to gain 15 pounds of muscle. I’ve been quite a lean person all of my life, and about 6 years ago got into weight lifting and put on some actual muscle. I’ve flip-flopped through different fitness ‘ideologies’ (calisthenics, 2 rep heavy weights, etc) and I feel like now I’ve landed on some weird middle ground I’m calling weighted calisthenics.

Reflection

I think the most important thing about resistance training is providing your body the opportunity to adapt to a wide range of resistances. So, I’m rotating on a monthly basis between three kinds of over-arching frameworks: the 3 by 5, high-rep burnouts, and a traditional 8-12 rep 3 set exercises.