http://www.samimatilainen.com art by Sami Matilainen Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:57:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Starting next week I will be transitioning into an upper/lower body split routine. Upper Two presses, two rows and a few extra sets for the arms and the shoulders.   Exercise Sets Reps Rest 1. Chins 3-4 3-10? 3 min 2. DB Bench 3-4 6-8 3 min 3. DB Bent Over Row 3-4 6-8 2 min 4. DB Seated Press 2-3 10-12 2 min 5. Cable Curl 1-2 10-12 1 min 6. Cable Pushdown 1-2 10-12 1 min 7. Machine Lat.Raise 1-2 10-12 1 min Lower The focus is on the quads, glutes, hamstrings ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/09/04/strength-training-routine-6/ Yesterday I had the opportunity to try out a new group training class at Sats Jakobsberg. Sats Shape is a yellow colored class which in Sats terms means that it falls in the "simple and fun training" category. And yeah, it was simple and I had fun. Nuff said? Well, no, ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/31/sats-shape/ Lately I've been running in the Hagaparken with a friend and yesterday evening we ran the complete round-trip around lake Brunnsviken. The round trip is about 12 km and we ran it in a leisurely 77 minutes. Running surely is a lot more fun when you have a friend with ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/11/running-brunnsviken/ Pow! The long arduous wait is finally over. Power Step returns to Sats Jakobsberg next week. I don't care which release they choose to run as long as I get my fix. I've listened to the playlist for the September 2010 release of Sats Power Step (Spotify playlist) but as always ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/08/powah-step/ So what do you get if you take me from four years ago and cut off 30kg (66 lb)? You would get me in the present, a new smaller version of myself. Or just "Mini-Me" if you will. It was four years ago that I decided that I should "get into ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/06/i-shall-call-him-mini-me/ If my previous cycle was all about barbell exercises, then you could say the theme this time around is a focus on dumbbell exercises. I know from experience that it is a lot harder to make linear progress with dumbbells but I think I need to change things up a ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/04/strength-training-routine-5/ This is the fifth and final part of my Time Lapse series which show how I created the painting "Uphill Battle". In part 1 I show the “brainstorming” or sketching phase which slowly turns into detail rendering in part 2. In part 3 I go back to the brainstorming or experimentation ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/08/01/time-lapse-uphill-battle-part-5/ This is the fourth part of my Time Lapse series which show how I created the painting "Uphill Battle". In part 1 I show the “brainstorming” or sketching phase which slowly turns into detail rendering in part 2. In part 3 I go back to the brainstorming or experimentation phase as ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/07/31/time-lapse-uphill-battle-part-4/ I already talked about Sats Cross Training but now that I've seen more of the class I feel that I have a few more things to say about it. It seems the instructor sort of fine-tuned the exercise selection over time so that some of the exercises which I initially felt ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/07/29/sats-cross-training-revisisted/ This is the third part of my Time Lapse series which show how I created the painting "Uphill Battle". In part 1 I show the “brainstorming” or sketching phase which slowly turns into detail rendering in part 2. In part 3 I go back to the brainstorming or experimentation phase as ... http://www.samimatilainen.com/2010/07/29/time-lapse-uphill-battle-part-3/