During this evening's circuit training, I managed to fall over mid squat-thrust. As I peeled myself off the mats to resume the hell, I noticed that my face had left an interesting sweat-mark on the ground. There were visible cheeks, a chin - even areas where eyes should go! It was a distinctly re...
Continue reading ...After a hellacious, but wonderfully enjoyable eleven days of chaos, I have finally managed to get back to training. Having left my job in favour of performing feats and enjoying every moment of life, I now have more time available to train and perform. That's the theory, anyway. So far, however, I ...
Continue reading ...[caption id="attachment_830" align="alignleft" width="295" caption="Photo by the brilliant J.Gardner"][/caption] It's just gone midnight and I've just finished my forth, three-hour wrestling training session in the last seven days. I'm about to set foot on an hour long tube to my car, so I can dri...
Continue reading ...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 ...Last night, I returned to London Shootfighters for three hours of combat training. For the first hour and a half, I was taught Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu by a three-time world champion (everybody at London Shootfighters is pretty much the best at what they do). Step by step, Simon and I were taught how...
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 ...Excitingly, I have been invited to head into London this week, for extended testing as part of the UK Sport Power2Podium project. Power2Podium is a search for athletes who could potentially train to be medallists at the Rio 2016 summer Olympics or Pyeongchang winter Olympics in 2018. Needless to s...
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 ...Having done very little training recently, I have to get back to the gym and the various sports I need to complete. Last week, I managed to fit in a couple of days of training. Tuesday 23rd Legs day: squats at 90kg and front squats at 60kg Wednesday 24th Back: pull-ups, chin-ups with 20kg and b...
Continue reading ...This evening was far too lovely to spend at the gym. Instead, I donned my white cotton trousers and took to the back garden, for some old-school exercises. Armed only with an 18kg dumbbell and a broom handle, I had a most enjoyable time. It involved pressups, dumbbell curls, shoulder presses, win...
Continue reading ...It has been week since my last post and for this I apologise. In the meantime, however, I have managed to get back to the gym, eat kangaroo, spend a weekend sleeping on a beanbag, and purchase and drink a glass skull full of vodka. Yes, I am the King. 20/07: saw me stagger around the gym, sti...
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 ...This week, I was meant to do a 5km run and a 10km run, in preparation for my half marathon (21km). As fate would have it, however, I ended up spending a lot of time on trains and driving classic cars instead. Poor, poor Ed. When it got to Thursday night, therefore, I was ashamed when I realise...
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