Great joy and supreme wonderment! I have, this evening, finally managed to conduct some training using my previously hopeless elbow! I did the most part of a triceps workout without any real discomfort, even managing what may have been a personal best on one exercise! My training consisted of: ...
Continue reading ...Having not done much training for the last 10 days, I absolutely had to go to the gym today. Unfortunately, it was also boxing-day (as in the sport, not the crap version of Christmas). Not wanting to give up either, I decided to do both. It hurt... (The person in the picture is not me - it's pu...
Continue reading ...I'm pleased to report that, thanks to my trusty elbow support, I completed a full workout for the first time since Friday! I was fairly concerned that, by wearing my elbow support and hitting the gym, I'd just look a little more pathetic and fail anyway. However, after a quick warm-up of press-ups...
Continue reading ...On today, the 17th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, I felt somewhat guilty about going to the gym, instead of playing my guitar and feeling sad. For this reason my training consisted of a single hour after work, followed by a lovely dinner to distract myself from musing about how much bet...
Continue reading ...[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLoMOk9tglM?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] As it is with everything, motivation is integral to fitness. It doesn't matter how often you go to the gym; if you don't work hard when you're there, you simply won't improve. Today, I wasn't motivated - and ...
Continue reading ...http://youtu.be/6p6APl1Z1aI I have now been training for the Gold Challenge for a whole week. I have done 8 hours of training, across 5 training sessions. I was, however, late to my training this morning, because Ajax came galloping into my bedroom this morning and demanded attention for a consi...
Continue reading ...Having turned my calf muscles into porridge at boxing on Monday night, including any kind of leg work into my Tuesday training regime was simply out of the question. Having done a hard back workout towards the end of the previous week, I decided it was about time to do a chest and triceps workout,...
Continue reading ...Tonight I conducted my first evening of training. I don't know why you would be interested but, in case you are... [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMOsqZtue0I&hl=en&fs=1] With the half marathon still 15-or-so weeks away, I decided it wasn't worth starting my running training yet...
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