Archives for the 'Fitness' Category
The Fastest Runner With No Legs
Oscar Pistorius’ attempt to represent South Africa in the Olympics was rejected. A great write-up on why the IAAF rejected his bid to compete can be found here. That said, I still marvel at his ability to compete at a world-class level despite being a double amputee, as he demonstrates in this video…
Perhaps equally [...]
1,575 pounds
I set a new personal best for bench press yesterday: five reps at 315 lbs! I’ve wanted to cross the 300 lbs. barrier ever since college, and this just reinforces that I’m actually in better shape now than I was in college. This means I probably have a max (one rep) somewhere [...]
Healthy Competition
From a blog I stumbled across while trying to challenge Barry before yesterday’s foray to the gym…
… we thought we’d take a look at how other athletes and celebrities have fared over the years with the bench press. We should note that not all of the numbers we’ve compiled are for max lifts. If they [...]
Oh shit.
One of my friends is a teacher, and she allowed her students to write a paper about the human body. Of course, giving kids an open-ended topic regarding their anatomy is a recipe for hilarity.
And thanks to the Internet and the wealth of information kids can find out there, one hilarious paper turned in [...]
The machine is obviously broken…
…because I do not have the metabolism of a hummingbird.
