Recent Cooking

A month and a half ago, Lawrence got into making pizzas. We already had a brand new, beautiful Emile Henry pizza stone to replace the tile I was using previously. Our first attempt was a flop, literally. As Lawrence was trying to slide the pizza onto the stone from our bamboo cutting board, half of it got stuck beneath itself and the mozzarella and tomato sauce got seared to the 500F pizza stone. Thankfully, Barkeeper's Friend was able to get all the burned sauce and cheese off. The amount of dough we had was enough for 2 pizzas, so I slid the 2nd pizza onto the stone and we enjoyed a beautifully cooked pizza.

monday workout

Deadlifts with 135lbs x5

Squats with two 12kg kettlebells x10

Presses with two 12kg kettlebells x10

Windmills with an 8kg kettlebell x10

Push-ups x10

Adobe MAX

Going to industry conferences is really inspiring... I should definitely try to go more. I guess I had gotten into kind of a funk about learning new stuff on my own. I'm probably going to sign up for lynda.com. I really want to learn more about user interface, interaction design, and graphic design too. Right now I don't have enough confidence in those areas to really push my point of view.

thursday night workout

5 sets of 10 reps using the barbell:

- deadlift
- row
- clean
- squat
- press

5 reps using these rolling dumbbell things:
- one arm
- other arm
- both arms

monday night workout

Repeated twice:

5x - Deadlifts, at first 50lbs + barbell, then 70lbs + barbell
5x - One-handed presses, each side, with a 12kg kettlebell
5x - Assisted pistols on the Smith machine, each side
5x - Assisted pull-ups on the Smith machine (first time one-legged; second time cross-legged), each side
5x - Push-ups
20x - Double-handed swings with a 16kg kettlebell

Lastly 15 rollouts on the ab wheel.

Thursday night's workout

laddered sets of 10 kettlebell swings:
8kg -> 12kg -> 16kg -> 20kg (omg 44lbs!!!) -> 16kg -> 12kg -> 8kg

10 assisted pull-ups on one leg
10 inchworm push-ups
10 chair pistols on each leg

Repeat all that again, but with the kettlebell swings going:
20kg -> 16kg -> 12kg -> 8kg -> 12kg -> 16kg -> 20kg

and the assisted pull-ups on the other leg

Monday night's workout

Three sets:

- 10 single-handed swings on each side (16kg kettlebell)
- 10 kettlebell squats (single 16kg kettlebell)
- 10 single-handed presses (12kg kettlebell)
- 10 reverse rows on the Smith machine
- 10 kettlebell lunges each side (passing the kettlebell between the legs)
- 10 push-ups