Today, I made three decisions. 1. Having flown home from Portugal yesterday - where I did nothing at all for 10 days - I decided it was time to get back to the gym. 2. Having seven potential evening training sessions per week, in various types of combat, I decided to start going to the gym in th...
Continue reading ...As I sit here in this gym, I have no shits left to give. Every miniscule amount of progress I make is either immediately lost or falls by the wayside, as I struggle to improve elsewhere. Inside or outside my training, I'm starting to feel totally numb to everything. For every month I spend hit...
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[caption id="attachment_619" align="alignleft" width="179"] I had no relevant pictures, so here is my enormous drinking horn.[/caption] Good news! Somehow - don't ask how - I have been confusing my body weight conversations (from stone to kg) for the last year or so. I can now say with certainty ...
Continue reading ...Today, I intended to take things easy. Today, I wanted to do a light workout, to make sure I'm full on energy for Tough Guy at the weekend. Today, I did not want to deadlift... ...but that was before somebody told me I couldn't. "You'll never lift that" was the exact expression used. "N...
Continue reading ...On Saturday, I decided against my usual gym routine of heavy weights and, instead, did just 2 sets of not-brilliant bench presses. I spent the rest of the time doing press-ups (etc), punching and kicking the punch bag and generally exhausting myself through body weight exercise. Today I am in agon...
Continue reading ...I have received a written report following my check-up with a Gold Medalist physician. It turns out he recommends I stop doing everything that makes me who I am, including drinking beer and lifting things. I response, I went to the gym...and deadlifted the biggest thing I have ever lifted. It weigh...
Continue reading ...At long last, I have deadlifted 200kg! It's not the greatest achievement ever, but it's the next big milestone along my way to attempting to deadlift three times my own body weight (225kg). [youtube height="350" width="425"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7J0IsyavM[/youtube] You'll notice ...
Continue reading ...Having been ill for a couple of days, I went back to the gym with one thing on my mind - lifting the biggest possible thing I could. In other words, deadlifting again. After a short warm-up (too short) and a few lifts at 60, 80 and 100kg, I loaded the bar heavier than I had ever loaded it before. ...
Continue reading ...Having spent last night deadlifting, I had no intention of returning to the gym today. However, by a strange series of events, I wound up back at the gym anyway. I decided to spend my time hitting a punching bag, then doing various kinds of biceps curl, in an attempt to avoid working anything I ha...
Continue reading ...Today, I went deadlifting. "Deadlifting?" you ask, confused and scared. Yes, deadlifting - the KING of exercises for many, many reasons. Allow me to explain just a few of those reasons. What the Hell is a Deadlift? Deadlifting involves lifting a loaded barbell off the ground from a stable, be...
Continue reading ...Normally, people tend to work chest and triceps in the same day. However, after a full chest workout, the triceps are often too exhausted to work to their full potential. When developing strength, this is a problem - as they need to work as hard as possible to get stronger. A common alternative, ...
Continue reading ...Having just about recovered from my general illness and lack of health, I decided to spend most my Friday night at the gym...as you do. I didn't do anything too tough: Bench presses at 90kg Chin ups Incline bench presses at 70kg Boxing Isometric training with weighted poles Complete abs-destroye...
Continue reading ...Having returned from the Download Festival, which absorbed every hour of every day from 09 - 13th of June, I went back to the gym tentatively... After all, I had managed to consume somewhere in the region of 100 units of alcohol over a matter of days, whilst sleeping in a scummy tent and spending ...
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 ...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 ...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 ...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...
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