Gordon's Notes

It wasn't a pretty lift. My butt came up but my chest was slower. The depth was marginal. But on Jan 2 2024, into my 65th year, I more-o...

When I retired I stopped eating high calorie restaurant/cafeteria lunches and took my exercise addiction to another (not all that healthy) l...

My 10 year CrossFit anniversary is two months away. A few months after  I started as an old man of 53 I wrote : ... I now do CrossFit twice ...

My Bell Super Air mountain bike helmet (removable face guard) came with an undocumented snap-in GoPro mount. I figured I'd use it to ho...

I wrote this in 1997 and found it in my old pre-blog Web 1.0 archives. I decided to republish it here because, you know, I could. Some of it...

I entered my 63y recently. For me this means another look at what I'm doing with the old arthritic body I've got. I started doing Cr...

We've used our Schwinn IC 4 cycle trainer for about 10 months now. It was a pandemic purchase in December of 2020. The same trainer is s...

I wrote the original of this post in the early COVID era. Since then I expanded the basement home gym with a way over-specced power lifting ...

Fellow exercise addicts -- let's examine our options... Trail, road, gravel biking. Extreme aerosol diffusion. Antiviral ultraviolet r...

My right wrist hurt the other day. A sudden sharp annoying pain. Maybe a tendon, maybe my arthritis acting up. So I did my usual amateur se...

On the 9th of August 2009 I wrote a post on at the start of my 51st year . It included an estimate that I was at "70% lifetime strength...

Current exercise guidelines are more demanding that the “12 minutes a day, 3 times a week” standard of my youth ... For substantial healt...

My son bought me a slim book on rock climbing techniques. Rock climbing was my brother Brian’s gig , but I could see doing it when my knees ...

In 2018 I met one of my two CrossFit Life Goals (tm) -  10 consecutive dubs (hit 42 in a wild fluke the other day). Only took me five times...

I used to write a birthday blog post each year about doing CrossFit. I missed this year; probably because its kind of a regular thing now. ...

Ten. Consecutive. Dubs . It’s not too much to ask, is it? Oh, and one muscle-up. Or bar muscle-up . I’m not picky. Dubs aren’t that hard...

My familial arthritis showed up in one finger a few years ago, but in December of 2015 it became a bigger deal [1]. It looked like an early...

I’ve had a habit around each birthday to review where I’m at with my exercise addiction. This past week was the 58th. I bought myself a Cano...

I’ve read that our national dumpster fire believes exercise is unwise. That’s not a surprise. It does remind me though of an open medical q...

I awoke last night sweaty and anxious. I was dreaming about the kipping muscle up ; a move that still eludes me. Which is nuts. I am an ol...