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September is going tyo be a big month for us, with plenty of fun and games. Not least of which is happening on September 21st…I’m talking about Born Survivor! “BORN SURVIVOR is a Military Assault Course themed event, designed by members of the elite corps of Mountain and Artic Warfare specialists of the Royal Marine … Read more
As you can see from the Upcoming Events page, we are going to be playing 2.8 Hours Later! What the hell is it, I hear you cry! Well, their website says this: “It is an adrenaline fuelled cinematic experience like no other, catapulting you to the heart of the zombie action. You will make choices … Read more
Because I get bored far too easily, I’ve lined up a few events for the upcoming year. If you want to check them out, click on the Upcoming Events page. We have already done the Yorkshire Warrior and Dirty Weekend and the next on the list is the Sheffield Man of Steel! Their website describes it … Read more
We did the Rat Race: Dirty Weekend on Saturday. 20 miles and 200 obstacles and camping with top people! Click here to see the gallery of pictures from the event… Video to come soon…
Looks like my sister has tricked me into doing the Born Survivor course in September! She used the cunning ruse of “asking” me! The minx! So now I’m obviously on the look out for anyone else who wants to come play too. Check out the updated Upcoming Events page by clicking here…
It’s finally been announced! This years Yorkshire Tough Mudder is being held at our regular training ground of Broughton Hall! Yes, where we regularly train. Where we store most of our heavy, smelly, horrible training toys. Where we all have cried, sweated, fallen, shivered. Where we spent last summer soaked to the skin. Where … Read more
Just added a new page to the website. It is the “Upcoming Events” page. I’m hoping to list the events I’m taking part in here. This is partly to help me keep track of things (I’m easily confused!) and so anyone who is interested in giving them a go can think about joining me and … Read more
The next FLASHmob Fitness session is on Saturday Feb 9th. We are taking it on tour again this week, so make sure you pay special attention to the when & where of it! www.reesfitness.co.uk/flashmob for details, and don’t forget to share this with your friends or anyone who might be interested…I know a few of … Read more
Just announced the next FLASHmob fitness session! It is on saturday, Feb 2nd. Find all the details at: www.reesfitness.co.uk/flashmob
I’m holding a FREE “taster” FLASHmob training session on Sunday 13th Jan for anyone brave enough to try it out! If you don’t mind being a guinea pig and letting me try out a full blown group boot camp style fitness session on you, then click here for all the details.
As you can probably see already, I’ve spent Christmas re-hashing the website. Feel free to try all the links and see if any bits of it are broken. And as soon as you have done that, tell your friends and show them! www.ReesFitness.co.uk
Why I train like I do…so I can spend my spare time doing this like this:
Spin
As a follow on from my previous post about misleading food labels, this is also from the excellent NHS Behind the Headlines webpage. The bottom line is
“Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.”
My favourite example of where newspaper headlines can be misleading is the ongoing attempt by the Daily Mail to classify everything on the planet as either a cause or cure for cancer (take a look here).
Less fat, same crap.
Many people talk to me about their attempts to control their weight. So I ask them what are they doing to change their diets. A very common reply is:
“I’ve switched to the low fat version of (insert name of food here)”.
Unfortunately, this is usually a pretty rubbish way to change our diets. A few years ago I had a revelation! It was this:
Very common question in the gym:
“What is the best way to get good at x”
Well, following the principle of “we get good at what we actually do“, the answer is fairly simple…
Rainstorm – www.zoriah.net This is just a quickie to say a huge well done to Jack. I was training him over the weekend, we were half way through when the heavens opened and a thunderstorm struck…but he didn’t complain once, he kept working hard and we had an outstanding session! Even though we both … Read more
Linda and I are all set to go for the Sheffield Man of Steel (click here) this Sunday. Me and Jane did it last year in our preparation for the Nettle Warrior and I had a great time, so decided to have a go again this year. We are doing the 5km version (even though … Read more
Just to give you an idea of what we get up to in training… If you want to join us, contact me by clicking here.
Its been a few weeks now since we did the UKs first Tough Mudder and i have finally gotten round to collecting the photos taken by the lovely Nick. If you are interested in seeing what happened, click here.