Podcast hosts: Jason Tucker and Steven Klassen discuss healthy weight loss for geeks.
Posts tagged free weights
You’re Doing It Wrong
Feb 9th
We talked about it in episode 40 a little bit, but I started at Accel Human Performance a couple weeks ago (turn down your speakers before you click). Tommy and I hit the gym and after some kettlebell swings to warm up I hit the power cage to do some front squats.
Let’s back up a little. What the heck are front squats? Well, they’re not what I was doing. Instead of having the bar on the top of my chest I was kind of cradling it in the crux of my arms. That worked, sort of. When I did it today Cory Gilday, co-owner and exercise physiologist, swooped in and offered some tips. He corrected my form, but I had to come down a bit in the weight. The exercise felt much better with the right form (more quads and a lot less back), but whew I’m going to have a pair of bruises on my upper arms I’m naming Cory and Gilday.
So far we’re enjoying the new venue. The staff is supportive and the they keep the place nice and clean. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a misplaced weight or anything else out of sorts.
If you mention GeekFit when you sign up, you’ll get all the water you can drink. Y’know, from the water fountain. It was funnier in my head.
GeekFit Podcast #40 [Audio] – (360) 450-5026
Feb 1st

Weigh In
- Steve’s Progress this Month – 360
| Date | Weight | Neck | Chest | Up. Arm | F. Arm | Waist | Hip | Thigh | Calf |
| 1/1/2010 | 364 | 19.75″ | 57″ | 21″ | 13″ | 60″ | 57.5″ | 32″ | 20″ |
| 1/24/2010 | 360 | 19″ | 56.25″ | 20″ | 14″ | 57.75″ | 56.75″ | 33.5″ | 20″ |
| Difference |
-4 pounds | -0.75″ | -0.75″ | -1″ | +1″ | -2.25″ | -0.75″ | +1.5″ | No Change |
- Jason’s Progress this Month – 229 lbs
Content!
- Steve:
- 100 books in 2010: 5 so far, plan on catching up on the road.
- Upcoming travel for Steven: Austin, Virginia (Kris!!), and St. Paul, MN.
- Meetup dot com @ Sci-Fi Group: read The Time Machine, and Perdido Street Station.
- Jason:
- Birthday party, went ice skating
- Rollerblading at the park with my daughter while she was learning to ride her bike.
- Step Aerobics – Nancy
- Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
Zumba: Jennifer S., Shawna, Rachelle, Ginger G., Tiffany
Using a mic? Visual cues? Type of music? 16 count or more freestyle?
- Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
- Accel Human Performance [d]
Uses the TRX for group classes, machines, free weights, and kettlebells.Books read? - LibraryThing dot Com
- Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen [d]
As you go through the book learning Swings, Get-Ups, the Clean, the Press, and the Snatch, he takes you through intermediate steps to master the entire movement. It would be like learning how to drive a car by first practicing getting in and out of the driver’s seat. Once you have that down, you move on to the over-the-shoulder reach to retrieve your seat belt to put it on. Then the key-into-the-ignition maneuver. - The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle [d]
6 movements: Squat, Dead lift, Lunge, Push, Pull, Twist, and Combo Moves (the 8th movement)
Promo – The GeekCast
@GeekFit Twitter bot
Product reviews
- Walkmeter App – Steve & Jason – [d]
The KML links for your walk are very cool and are mapped over Google Maps. Each walk can be associated with a route, or not; there’s an ‘All Walks’ bucket that unmatched routes will go into. If you walk the same route multiple times, associating them with a route gives you best and worst times for your walk. You have the ability to start a walk, stop it for a time (going in to buy something, for example) and then start again. The walk doesn’t conclude until you hit ‘Done’ when it’s uploaded and a message sent to Twitter. We both liked this app.
- EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Backlit 3.5″ Display and Oversize Platform – Steve [d]
Easy to read display, gives you your weight in 10ths of a pound. Wide enough to get both feet on easily. 330lb limit, so I made my sister Amanda play guinea pig.
Your Mission
This weeks mission, leave us an iTunes review and tell someone about us, we tell people about you all the time!
http://www.itunes.com/podcast/geekfitpodcast [Link loads in iTunes]
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/geekfit
http://twitter.com/jasontucker
http://twitter.com/mrxinu – Be sure to message Steve when you add him
Disclosure What the heck is this [d] thing? We’ll be using this mark to indicate our full disclosure with the product we review. Click the link and its shows our disclosure. Its it overkill? Sure but we don’t wanna get sued.
Beginning 12/1/2009 bloggers, advertisers and their agencies need to disclose when they have marketing arrangements or other material connections. Review copies, samples, paid posts, affiliate links and paid posts are the most common examples. If you are reviewing or endorsing products and you are being given products or compensation relating to those posts, you must disclose those relationships. [read more]
GeekFit Podcast #40 [Video] – (360) 450-5026
Jan 30th

Weigh In
- Steve’s Progress this Month – 360
| Date | Weight | Neck | Chest | Up. Arm | F. Arm | Waist | Hip | Thigh | Calf |
| 1/1/2010 | 364 | 19.75″ | 57″ | 21″ | 13″ | 60″ | 57.5″ | 32″ | 20″ |
| 1/24/2010 | 360 | 19″ | 56.25″ | 20″ | 14″ | 57.75″ | 56.75″ | 33.5″ | 20″ |
| Difference |
-4 pounds | -0.75″ | -0.75″ | -1″ | +1″ | -2.25″ | -0.75″ | +1.5″ | No Change |
- Jason’s Progress this Month – 229 lbs
Content!
- Steve:
- 100 books in 2010: 5 so far, plan on catching up on the road.
- Upcoming travel for Steven: Austin, Virginia (Kris!!), and St. Paul, MN.
- Meetup dot com @ Sci-Fi Group: read The Time Machine, and Perdido Street Station.
- Jason:
- Birthday party, went ice skating
- Rollerblading at the park with my daughter while she was learning to ride her bike.
- Step Aerobics – Nancy
- Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
Zumba: Jennifer S., Shawna, Rachelle, Ginger G., Tiffany
Using a mic? Visual cues? Type of music? 16 count or more freestyle?
- Zumba (www.zumba.com) [d]
- Accel Human Performance [d]
Uses the TRX for group classes, machines, free weights, and kettlebells.Books read? - LibraryThing dot Com
- Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen [d]
As you go through the book learning Swings, Get-Ups, the Clean, the Press, and the Snatch, he takes you through intermediate steps to master the entire movement. It would be like learning how to drive a car by first practicing getting in and out of the driver’s seat. Once you have that down, you move on to the over-the-shoulder reach to retrieve your seat belt to put it on. Then the key-into-the-ignition maneuver. - The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle [d]
6 movements: Squat, Dead lift, Lunge, Push, Pull, Twist, and Combo Moves (the 8th movement)
Promo – The GeekCast
@GeekFit Twitter bot
Product reviews
- Walkmeter App – Steve & Jason – [d]
The KML links for your walk are very cool and are mapped over Google Maps. Each walk can be associated with a route, or not; there’s an ‘All Walks’ bucket that unmatched routes will go into. If you walk the same route multiple times, associating them with a route gives you best and worst times for your walk. You have the ability to start a walk, stop it for a time (going in to buy something, for example) and then start again. The walk doesn’t conclude until you hit ‘Done’ when it’s uploaded and a message sent to Twitter. We both liked this app.
- EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale w/ Extra Large Backlit 3.5″ Display and Oversize Platform – Steve [d]
Easy to read display, gives you your weight in 10ths of a pound. Wide enough to get both feet on easily. 330lb limit, so I made my sister Amanda play guinea pig.
Your Mission
This weeks mission, leave us an iTunes review and tell someone about us, we tell people about you all the time!
http://www.itunes.com/podcast/geekfitpodcast [Link loads in iTunes]
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/geekfit
http://twitter.com/jasontucker
http://twitter.com/mrxinu – Be sure to message Steve when you add him
Quick note regarding this episode. We recorded this episode over Skype video and will be posting the video version first with an audio version the following day. Soon we will be providing both an audio and video feed but for the time being this will have to do – Jason
Disclosure What the heck is this [d] thing? We’ll be using this mark to indicate our full disclosure with the product we review. Click the link and its shows our disclosure. Its it overkill? Sure but we don’t wanna get sued.
Beginning 12/1/2009 bloggers, advertisers and their agencies need to disclose when they have marketing arrangements or other material connections. Review copies, samples, paid posts, affiliate links and paid posts are the most common examples. If you are reviewing or endorsing products and you are being given products or compensation relating to those posts, you must disclose those relationships. [read more]
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