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Weak for a Week!

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 ...

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A Busy Day!

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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New Tactics

I've noticed my blog is slowing down a bit, probably because my general bad health has meant my training volume has declined. Although I fully intend tomorrow to herald another full week of training, I will need to develop some new tactics if I am to maintain intensity without damaging myself furth...

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Success!

I'm pleased to report that, thanks to my trusty elbow support, I completed a full workout for the first time since Friday! I was fairly concerned that, by wearing my elbow support and hitting the gym, I'd just look a little more pathetic and fail anyway. However, after a quick warm-up of press-ups...

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Resting Up.

I'm meant to be boxing tonight, but a combination of injury and illness is holding me back... For the last few months, I've been having trouble with my left elbow which, as far as I can tell, has resulted in some form of trapped or pinched nerve. This has been making things difficult... For the l...

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R.I.P Kurt Cobain

On today, the 17th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, I felt somewhat guilty about going to the gym, instead of playing my guitar and feeling sad. For this reason my training consisted of a single hour after work, followed by a lovely dinner to distract myself from musing about how much bet...

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Professional Boxing Circuit

Tonight, I returned to High Wycombe Boxing Club for my second two-hour boxing session.  Similar to last time, there was a good mix of fitness and technique, though this week included more  pad-work (known to you and me as "hitting something held by somebody else, lest it hits you first").  Befo...

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Motivation

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLoMOk9tglM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] As it is with everything, motivation is integral to fitness.  It doesn't matter how often you go to the gym; if you don't work hard when you're there, you simply won't improve.  Today, I wasn't motivated - and ...

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Damn those Pigs!

So it turns out the pigs at Youtube and/or various music labels have decided to remove the audio from my videos, or ban them altogether in some countries. This does not please me... [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6APl1Z1aI&w=480&h=390] I work hard on those videos, but I under...

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One Week In…

http://youtu.be/6p6APl1Z1aI I have now been training for the Gold Challenge for a whole week.  I have done 8 hours of training, across 5 training sessions. I was, however, late to my training this morning, because Ajax came galloping into my bedroom this morning and demanded attention for a consi...

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100 Miles in a Day, eh?

When I signed up for the Gold Challenge, the only way to complete the road biking challenge was to take part in a series of organised group cycles. Not being a fan of organised things (or other people), I asked whether I could do something different, on my own...somewhere far, far away, where peopl...

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