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...
Continue reading ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 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...
Continue reading ...Life has become about as busy as it could possibly be. Or at least it feels that way. I have, therefore, sadly not had time to blog the last couple of days of Ed vs. Sport. I hope the following summary will suffice: Chest Routine of 10.05.2011: Bench presses: 50, 90, 95 and 98kg Incline dumbbell ...
Continue reading ...Yesterday was legs day at the gym. Having read an interesting article on leg development (and because I require endurance for my half marathon), I decided to take down the weight and go for a higher number of reps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqJp5OAYdU The result - I could barely even walk th...
Continue reading ...Excited by my recent technique development, I went back to the gym to experiment with dumbbell presses. Frustratingly, I cannot remember exactly what I did and in what order. I recall the following: Dumbbell presses at 40kg Incline barbell presses at 70kg Chin-ups Triceps push-downs at 35kg The...
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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