It’s On

 

 

“The darkness of the night is of a quality only found in the swedish forest. There are no wolves here, but if there were they would fit right in. It was at least 25 minutes since the dirty yellow lights of the track flickered off, leaving the night alone to reclaim its territory.

Feet are thumping over the semi-frozen ground, flailing strands of beard disturbing the heavy mists. As we run we fantasize about really bad-ass stuff, but we talk trivia, trying and succeeding in dismissing the stress the run puts on our bodies; In reality we are just a bunch of regular guys out for run, but in our minds we are large bearded vikings on the march home from an epic battle, running towards gladsheim to feast on the flesh of särimner.”

 

This is but a slight excerpt of the endless chapters of noir-literature my mind concocts whenever i am engaged in physical excercise. I decided to share this with you because why the hell not. Anywho, the point of this post is to update the world and its inhabitants on whats going on with us brutes/beards. We are now very much active again, i know i said we would be loong ago but yeah, i was wrong. First of all; the running. I am personally only comfortable running about 5-7,5 km at a time because of the horrible shape this summer has left me in. The beardface and another manchild called Mr Eriksson however are running 10 kilometers most day and now feel ready to start packing some weights when running, hopefully i will catch up soon.

We also started up with the gym again, and exampled of our hybrid-style workouts will come as soon as we can unite around any one system… I myself am looking at hyper-adaptive cycling as the next thing to try. This is something i found in the articles and work of Jeff “The muscle nerd” Anderson,  and the idea is to constantly change the tempo and load of you workouts as well as the rate you allow your body to recover. Hopefully this will force the body to maintain a constantly high anabolic state, since it cannot adapt to such fluctuating circumstances.

When i manage to get into the routine and see some results, i’ll let ya know.. Until then [insert cliché until-then phrase here].