When it comes to exercise (and indeed life in general), I believe people can push themselves far harder than they think they can. I believe people - myself included - set their personal expectations too low, rarely try as hard as they think they are trying, and give up too easily. I believe pe...
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What's the first thing that pops to mind when you think "triathlon"? How about when you think "Adventurethon"? How about when you think about the individual sports of kayaking, mountain biking and off-road running? It's probably brute strength, right? Right. That's why, in preparation for my fo...
Continue reading ...My wonderfully talented friend introduced me to this video. It's friggin' amazing...apart from one thing...the music. Don't get me wrong, it's inoffensive... But when a man is performing feats of strength to this level, he really should be performing to some kind of EPIC HEAVY METAL! I hav...
Continue reading ...What better way to start a new year than with a personal best in the gym? How about THREE PERSONAL BESTS IN A ROW? That do anything for ya? That's levitation, Holmes. Nah, only kidding. I didn't fly. What I did, however, was perform my three best sets of squats ever, one after the other. Befor...
Continue reading ...Today's weapons of choice, in the war against...whatever it is I am trying to defeat by spending hours throwing around iron in a gym... ...
Continue reading ...[caption id="attachment_1541" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Squatting in the name of the Lord...[/caption]...
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Friends, I have done it! "Done what?", you ask? Why, nothing less than the TEN TON CHALLENGE! Sadly, this is simply something I invented myself and it isn't that hard. Still, it was something to work towards. Essentially, the goal is to shift ten tons of iron in one half-hour long squat session, c...
Continue reading ...FACT: Until you've ripped the ass from your cargo trousers mid-set, you have not squatted like a man. And until you have held in your laughter for long enough to finish the set, you have not learn the discipline necessary...to be a DRAGON SLAYER!! At the gym today, I squatted ten tons in half an h...
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When I got in last night, I sat down on the sofa...and did not get up again. So depleted of energy was my body that I half-sat half-lay in a state of near comatose until, eventually, I summoned up the testicular fortitude to turn on my Xbox...before falling asleep. What marathon of physical exert...
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Much as people who don't go to the gym like to think of working out as mindless pumping of iron (which it is for some) the reality is that, as with everything, once you progress beyond being a beginner, there is much more to the activity than perhaps meets the eye. It's the same feeling I get fro...
Continue reading ...Pancakes be praised! It's FINALLY the end of the working week and, therefore, time for my final installment of "This is more or less how I like to train"; a guide for anybody bored enough to be interested. So, here is Friday. Or Frīġedæġ, in Old English - so named after Frigg, wife of Odin. ...
Continue reading ...I'm nearly there!. This is installment three of four in my "I kinda try to train along these lines" guide for anybody interested in how I train. If anybody out there is actually interested, I will eat my own hat. As a man who owns no hats, I'll also have to go out and purchase a hat. This I fear...
Continue reading ...It's the mid-week entry of my "This is a good way to train...I think" diary. I call it Wednesday, which comes from the Old English Wōdnesdæg or 'Day of Wodanaz'. Wodanaz also goes by the name of Odin (O'din't you know? <--- that's a joke.) Being Odin's day, Wednesday is a blessed day ...
Continue reading ...Behold. Now cometh day two of "Sometimes I train like this..." - my attempt to summarise roughly how I like to train on a good week. It is subject to change and outright lies. Today I shall explain the joy of Tuesday, or Tiwesdæg in Old English. This means Tyr's Day, which is lovely. (Tyr bein...
Continue reading ...OK, so here goes my plan to explain how I train on each day of the week. I know, I know - it's boring as hell. But here goes...Monday, or Mōnandæg as it is in Old English. It means Day of the Moon, essentially. That's pretty cool, eh? Now, as everybody knows, the Guild have ten times their no...
Continue reading ...Having a distinct lack of anything interesting going on in my life at the moment, I have decided to write a little bit about my fairly new training routine. Why? I have no idea. The idea is to explain what I do on each day of the week and why. Somebody, somewhere might be interested... I will ...
Continue reading ...Getting back into shape is not going well, friends. Having quit my job and turned freelance, I technically have more time available to get to the gym, go fighting and perform great deeds. However, it just doesn't seem to be working out that way. In fact, I seem to be in worse shape all around! Y...
Continue reading ...After Monday night's painful chest and back experience, I decided Tuesday morning needed a shock to get my body going... ...so I did the same again! That's right, just to totally mess with my mind and body, I went back to the gym and did another session targeting the exact same muscles. This time...
Continue reading ...I've decided I need to get back into shape. The next wrestling show is on the 28th of July and I've lost around 5kg of good weight and seem to have collected some bad along the way. I'm not happy with the trade off...I must have been drunk when I agreed to it. So I shot down to Apollo Gym in Hig...
Continue reading ......and by "enough", I actually mean "not enough". I have come to the realisation that, through a combination of eating atrociously, drinking far too much, doing a very stressful self-employed job AND suffering grave vehicular-related misfortunes on a daily basis, I have fallen from shape. Now, i...
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