QUICK OPENING NOTE: I've been documenting some of this on Instagram at @edgamester, in case you're thinking about trying it out for yourself :) For the last 12 weeks I've been doing a strength-based routine designed by Alexander Faleev. It came to my attention via an article written by former Sov...
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Today was nothing special - just a standard chest session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield. It is taking me a while to recover my chest strength, but this is nothing unusual - I tend to overcompensate using my arms and shoulders, which are disproportionately strong compared to my chest. The big lif...
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...
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...
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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 ...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...
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