Strength Training Part II is up on the homepage.  See that small section on 'bodyweight training'?  Did you gloss over that?  That is entirely what I do anymore 5 days per week.  That builds the avatar body.  It gives you abs when you don't even do one situp or leg raise.  It's all about balance and multi-musclegroup holds.  I don't do reps (except for pushup/pullup) - what I log is the seconds I 'hold' the position.  It's brutally intense but since it is not rep-based (you just hold it in good form), it's safe.  The intensity builds bone density and very strong muscles/tendons.  Being that it's bodyweight, every muscle, even the tiniest ones are used - I can even see my serratus anterior muscles...not a muscle group you can pinpoint train.

Many do the standard pushup on the ground with the regular hand placement.  It's a great functional strength exercise.  But replace the ground with Rings to hold and elevate your feed.  THAT brings a whole new slew of stabilizing muscles into play.

TODAY AT BT:

Used Google's 'hangout' for a 4-way video conference.  It performed exceptionally well.  The three kick@ss programmers of BT and myself discussed a few remaining decisions to be made and got all onboard the same page to begin programming. 

Funny, this is the first time I have seen 'matt' live.  Pictures or otherwise...it has been nearly 10 years since he started making the training logs of BT.  The only direct communication with him I have had over the years is 'the servers down!' via the phone...but very infrequently. 

I chatted with 'troy' too though he is a more recent addition and has been doing mainly mobile stuff. 

We have a very talented crew for this next redesign...and we are doing things the 'right' way this time (thanks mike!).  We didn't even develop the basic html/css...we had a firm redesign the site.  So the programmers will be starting with a vetted, tested, real template full with images, etc.  Totally unlike any of the other redesigns.  Plus the user input we received for this one.  We barely used user input on the redesigns for the past 10 years.

This new BT is really going to be sweet.  I gave mike a deadline to have it live.  Though I can't tell anyone yet...