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Winning England’s Strongest Man Under 80kg Novice

Having completed five tough weeks of strongman training, it was finally time to test my progress at England’s Strongest Man Under 80kg Novice competition. A few weeks before, I learned that my Ghost Squad amigo, Hakon Fram Stokka, was flying from Norway to Edinburgh to do a 50+ km Spartan Ultra...

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Battle Living

I know, I know; I have been a bad blogger. Hitherto, I have posted thrice a week on average for a few years in a row. Recently, however, I have barely posted at all. "WHY, GODS, WHY?" I hear you type into the comments box. Normally adventure-silence is caused by me not getting up to much of i...

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Spears and Cutlasses!

For my final morning of the first phase of my screen combat training, I was given a spear. This was the culmination of many a childhood (and adult) dream and not an opportunity I was about to approach with anything less than full enthusiasm. My body, on the other hand, had different ideas. 9 hour...

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Unarmed Screen Combat

Today was my first day of training in screen combat with the British Action Academy. I booked the course months ago and have been ridiculously excited ever since. On the way to the venue, however, the exhaust fell off my car. Eventually, I managed to lash it back on using the cable that connects ...

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Happy New Year!

Hello there and happy new year! I decided to leave the blog alone entirely over the Christmas season and focus instead on getting fat. I am proud to announce that I have been rather successful; I have followed a strict two-week regime involving an excess of just about everything except exercise!...

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Genesis MMA Challenge

For some reason (possibly because I am a huge fan of theirs) I agreed to take part in the Genesis MMA Gym's December Fitness Challenge. What ensued was three hours of total madness. We started with a run through High Wycombe. Don't ask me how far we ran because I honestly have no idea. It t...

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Quick Chest Session

My third session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield was quick morning chest session. Once again, I probably started too heavy to get through the number of sets I had in mind. Lacking any dip bars, I used chest press instead and finished the session with some extra work on my right side, which is lagg...

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