#FridayFive: Favorite P90X Routines August 9th, 2013 @ 2:43 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …
Not Dark Yet June 23rd, 2013 @ 5:25 pm PDT
Aside from Green Eggs & Ham a thousand times, and the Hemingway novels I was reading my son as bedtime stories when he was an infant, I haven’t managed to read a single book in almost three years. That should be an astounding fact to anyone who has known me for a while, since I […]
Hydrostatic Body Fat Testing January 29th, 2013 @ 9:39 am PST
It’s been a little less than four years since I had my body fat percentage accurately calculated at a mobile testing station. Last night I had it done again by Linda of bodyfattest.com outside of a health club in Reseda. Last year was pretty rough on my body; I was under a lot of stress […]
Why’d You Put Your Quarter Down on Me? August 11th, 2011 @ 7:41 am PDT
At this point I’m simply trying to see how fast I can reasonably run five miles without injuring myself (dramatically). <knock on wood>So far I’ve only collided with a single bus stop (in the dark) and skinned the outside of my left knee on a low brick wall.</knock on wood> As I rounded Westwood last […]
Scott Farcas Takes It on the Chin August 9th, 2011 @ 3:43 pm PDT
You didn’t think I’d manage it again, did you? Joke’s on you, my friend. I, in fact, did take almost another full minute off my five-mile time last night. If you’re scoring at home, that also means that I ran twenty miles in seven days. Now I just need to do some P90X workouts on […]
Another Five Miles in Los Angeles August 8th, 2011 @ 9:47 am PDT
Okay, I don’t mean to sound like a broken record here, but I’m pretty proud of running fifteen miles last week. I did another five-miler right around sunset on Saturday night. At this point I’m going to do some research into the chances of a digital watch reporting time incorrectly, because I shaved almost a […]
Five (More) Miles in Los Angeles August 5th, 2011 @ 7:08 am PDT
Even though I was still sore as hell from my run Tuesday night, I somehow managed to knock out another five mile run last night. I ran my standard “local loop”, which is east on Olympic to Beverwill, then south to Pico, and then west to Westwood back to Olympic. I almost thought that there […]
Five Miles in Los Angeles August 3rd, 2011 @ 8:15 am PDT
Last night I decided that I needed to get my butt in gear and start taking care of myself. I haven’t exercised in almost three months and it had been almost a year since I went for a run. So I grabbed my Nikes and my iPod Nano and hit the pavement. The heat wave […]
Monday Night Workout July 13th, 2009 @ 8:45 pm PDT
‘Twas a painfully brutal session at the gym tonight with @kbakst. It’s been several months since we finished the Velocity Diet, and we’re both in pretty damn good shape, but we’re still lifting weights as if morbid obesity was knocking at the door. I’ve been more focused on keeping the rest time between sets at […]
The Velocity Diet: I Like Chocolate Edition April 21st, 2009 @ 3:36 pm PDT
I completed Phase I of the Velocity Diet with my fifth shake on Sunday night. (I’ll write my review of Week Four soon.) I guess the guys at T-Nation are pretty good with their calculations, because I had barely enough Metabolic Drive shake mix to last me exactly through Phase I. By Monday morning I […]
