My Dad got me a simple workout bench and barbell set when I was 13, because I was really self-conscious about the asymmetry of my chest (my upper right rib is smaller than my left one.) I added a chin-up bar to my door at 15, and, with nightly sessions to get out my teen rage, I soon found doing chin-ups was a nearly effortless exercise.

I've worked out, off and on, over the many years since then- with weighted bodyweight work being the foundation of most of my routines. In some exercises, I'd consider myself pretty advanced. Yet in others, I'm painfully under-trained and under-developed. So this year, I'm keeping the best, and fixing the rest, and logging it here in hopes that it'll be helpful to someone.

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