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May 30, 2025
Michael Espinosa
To Choose Suffering

We do not avoid discomfort. We meet it with calloused hands and sweating brow, knowing that, to run from it is to run to it.

To Choose Suffering
May 22, 2025
Michael Espinosa
The 5 Best Gyms in Gainesville (And Why You’ll ...
The 5 Best Gyms in Gainesville (And Why You’ll Probably Join the Last One)
May 9, 2025
Michael Espinosa
Use This One Secret to Gain Muscle — Fast
Use This One Secret to Gain Muscle — Fast
May 9, 2025
Michael Espinosa
When Thinking About Weight Gets in the Way, ...
When Thinking About Weight Gets in the Way, Will Power is not the Problem
October 5, 2020
Michael Espinosa
Do This To Lose Weight Without Counting Calories

The average person goes on 126 diets in their lifetime! If diets worked, you’d only need to go on one. They don’t work.

Do This To Lose Weight Without Counting Calories
Michael Espinosa
June 16, 2016
Workouts

06/17/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 16, 2016
Workouts
06/17/2016

Light snatches, front squats and a partner workout!

Tagged: USA Weightlifting, Weightlifting, Snatch, Front Squat, Partner Workout, Strength and Conditioning, AMRAP, Crossfit, Orange Theory, Planet Fitness, Gainesville Health, Gainesville gym

Michael Espinosa
June 15, 2016

06/16/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 15, 2016

Active recovery:

Run, row, bike, or swim 20-60 minutes at a conversational pace. Also a good day to, play another sport or spend an hour stretching (after workout or warm-up)

Michael Espinosa
June 14, 2016
Workouts

06/15/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 14, 2016
Workouts
06/15/2016

Easy day today as we continue with our deload week. No conditioning today—accessory work instead. 

Tagged: deadlift, deadbug, bench press, powell raise, dumbbell external rotations

Michael Espinosa
June 13, 2016

06/14/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 13, 2016
06/14/2016

Aerobic capacity day. Introducing the "single-arm bottoms-up walking kettlebell press."

Michael Espinosa
June 12, 2016
Workouts

06/13/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 12, 2016
Workouts
06/13/2016

Deload week begins.

Tagged: Deload, Gainesville gym, Gainesville Health, Gainesville, weightlifting, USA Weightlifting, USAW, Clean and Jerk, back squats

Michael Espinosa
June 10, 2016
Workouts

06/11/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 10, 2016
Workouts
06/11/2016

Ahh, it's Saturday, and the last day before our deload, so I programmed a tough chipper for your enjoyment. It'll be smooth sailing after all of those handstand push-ups...

Tagged: handstand push ups, HSPU, kettle bell snatches, toe to bar, Clean and Jerk, snatch, USA Weightlifting, USAW, crossfit, orange theory, Gainesville Health, Gainesville, florida

Michael Espinosa
June 9, 2016
Workouts

06/10/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 9, 2016
Workouts
06/10/2016

Front squats then working to a daily max. Muscle-ups afterwards.

Tagged: Front Squat, Weightlifting, USA Weightlifting, Gainesville gym, Gainesville Health, gainesville, florida, Snatch

Michael Espinosa
June 8, 2016
Workouts

06/09/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 8, 2016
Workouts
06/09/2016

"Man [and woman], the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

Tagged: Bolo Yeung, blood sport, movies, kungfu, fitness, Gainesville, florida

Michael Espinosa
June 7, 2016
Workouts

06/08/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 7, 2016
Workouts
06/08/2016

Strength day. The deadlifts and bench should be pretty heavy. Next week we deload, so hold on tight, and do what you can at the prescribed percentages.

Tagged: Gainesville gym, Florida, Strength and Conditioning, bench press, Squat, deadlift

Michael Espinosa
June 6, 2016
Workouts

06/07/2016

Michael Espinosa
June 6, 2016
Workouts
06/07/2016

I love programming three-piece burners like the one inside.

Tagged: gainesville, Florida, gym, Turkish get-up, Sandbag carry, Airdyne, Assault bike, Aerobic capacity, Strength and Conditioning, Crossfit, Orange Theory, Gainesville Health, fitness, Planet Fitness, orange theory

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