As a qualified personal trainer, I fully understand the progression of physical fitness. The concept of gradual, progressive overload is so engrained into my psyche that I do it just about everywhere in my life. Every week, I get to work 10 seconds faster than the week before. Every time I go dri...
Continue reading ...If you're anything like a normal human being, you'll be wondering why I have a picture of a sex toy on my charity blog. Fear not, friends - it is actually a 'technique bag'. I provide a picture of this 'technique bag' because, upon arriving a the gym today, I discovered that they still haven't re...
Continue reading ...Today I managed to make contact with Bret King from Longridge Outdoor Centre. He has kindly agreed to find some time to teach me the noble art of rowing. I am, however, on holiday from next Thursday to the following Tuesday, at the Download Festival. My training will, therefore, have to wait un...
Continue reading ...This quick routine after work helped knacker me out, without taking up too much time. Bench press at 80kg Incline bench at 60kg Incline dumbbell press at 2 x 30kg Barbell curl at 30kg Incline dumbbell curls at 3 x 14kg Negative hammer curls at 22kg Hammer curls at 14kg ...
Continue reading ...To celebrate the start of June (any excuse for a party), I went for a run. With my dad...('Iron' Steve Gamester). Luckily he understands that, when it comes to running, I am the worst of men. He therefore set a moderate pace and helped me keep it up for around 5km, which took about 30 mins. Alth...
Continue reading ...Today I conducted a simple, but exhausting routine to strengthen my back. Bent barbell rows at 60kg Chin-ups T-bar rows at 65kg (+10kg bar) Shrugs at 60, 100 and 120kg (at this point my grip gave up) High-rep kroc rows at 20kg An elongated period of back stretches. Admittedly, it wasn't aimed at ...
Continue reading ...Today I caught a train to Wakefield, where I shall stay in a hotel in preparation for a day of journalism tomorrow. It turned out that the hotel had a gym, which was good news. I didn't know this at 07:00 this morning, however, so I ended up doing this: Bench presses at 90kg Incline barbell pre...
Continue reading ...I went for a run on Friday (20/05/2011). A real run. Outside, in the world... It didn’t go very well. Or rather, it went very well for the first ten minutes or so. Around about then, however, I noticed a growing pain in my lower back. A mile or so later and the pain started getting wors...
Continue reading ...On Monday, I wanted to do legs. I know, I know - it sounds ridiculous. Nobody wants to do legs, it's just something you have to do. Well, not this time. I actually really did want to do some legs work at the gym, because of my up-coming half-marathon and insane bike-ride from Helheimr. Altho...
Continue reading ...Life has become about as busy as it could possibly be. Or at least it feels that way. I have, therefore, sadly not had time to blog the last couple of days of Ed vs. Sport. I hope the following summary will suffice: Chest Routine of 10.05.2011: Bench presses: 50, 90, 95 and 98kg Incline dumbbell ...
Continue reading ...Yesterday was legs day at the gym. Having read an interesting article on leg development (and because I require endurance for my half marathon), I decided to take down the weight and go for a higher number of reps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqJp5OAYdU The result - I could barely even walk th...
Continue reading ...Excited by my recent technique development, I went back to the gym to experiment with dumbbell presses. Frustratingly, I cannot remember exactly what I did and in what order. I recall the following: Dumbbell presses at 40kg Incline barbell presses at 70kg Chin-ups Triceps push-downs at 35kg The...
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This evening, I turned up at wrestling, only to discover a competition in full swing! Paris vs South England! Although I agree to fight (I don't know who was more surprised, me or the coach!), it turned out there was nobody of my weight available.) Interestingly, my first ever competition was ...
Continue reading ...A quick picture for your pleasure; me, Will and Debbie at the British Olympic Association. Why? Because we rock, clearly. ...
Continue reading ...Finally, after weeks of frustrating and injury, I got back to the gym and managed to give it some juice. Not only didI make it through unscathed, I shattered my bench press 1-rep max by slightly altering my technique! I was still wearing my elbow support (because I was doing chest and back work...
Continue reading ...I know it's not strictly Ed vs Sport-related, but yesterday was my band's final official gig... Though I long to explicate in wondrous prose and expound the myriad virtues of our performance…alas I cannot. As the ancients uttered long before we knew such wisdom: I was blinded by the rock…and...
Continue reading ...Although I didn’t train today, I was hardly resting on my laurels. Whatever that means. No no, my friends. Today I was in the studio with my band, Gay Bum, for a live recording! Here is a sample song: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYLddhwibMU&hl=en&fs=1] Read on, McRock! A...
Continue reading ...Great joy and supreme wonderment! I have, this evening, finally managed to conduct some training using my previously hopeless elbow! I did the most part of a triceps workout without any real discomfort, even managing what may have been a personal best on one exercise! My training consisted of: ...
Continue reading ...I have been having problems with my right ankle. It has been weak for a week which, despite being a lovely rhyme, has been disrupting the small amount of training I have managed with my dodgy elbow and wheezing lungs. On Monday, I noticed the sole of my foot hurting quite a lot whilst skipping at ...
Continue reading ...Having not done much training for the last 10 days, I absolutely had to go to the gym today. Unfortunately, it was also boxing-day (as in the sport, not the crap version of Christmas). Not wanting to give up either, I decided to do both. It hurt... (The person in the picture is not me - it's pu...
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