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Just a quickie to say a huge well done to my friend Becky who won her second amature boxing match over the weekend. She travelled a round trip of 11 hours(!) and her opponent threw in the towel half way through the second round. She has been working very hard on her conditioning recently, but so … Read more
We all have reasons or excuses why we can’t do something. Sometimes it is because we don’t have enough time, or it is too difficult, or we have forgotten our trainers today, or we’re feeling a bit hungover after last night.
But watch and read this short news story here about a group of wounded former and serving British soldiers who are in training to trek to the north pole next year. Their injuries include paralysed arms and amputated legs and any psychological traumas that accompany them.
I managed to have a lie-in this morning, and I ended up hearing this short discussion on the radio (click here to listen. It lasts less than 6 minutes). They were asking if great athletes are born, or are they made through training?
And the line that really caught my ear was:
“…the limiting factor in the vast majority of sports and most real life situations, is software”
Following on from my previous post about consistency, a couple of people came up to me to ask:
“So shouldn’t I change my current workout then?”
Due to me never reading my posts before I publish them, I want to be a politician for a moment and “clarify” what I meant… What I meant to say was…
So have you voted yet? Are you going to vote today? I hope so. It sounds like a cliché, but better people than I have fought and died for my right to vote. The least I can do is honour that sacrifice and put a cross on a ballot paper. It doesn’t matter if you … Read more
A very important factor that decides if an outcome is achieved or not, is consistency (simply doing something time and again and again and again). Do the following stories sound familiar?
If you are in a good mood and want something to put a real downer on your day, take 2 minutes to read this story here…
Barbell Rollout from the knees
In our circuit sessions, we have been doing barbell rollouts on our knees for a few months now (this is a fantastic way to strengthen your stomach/core). First time, they were hideously hard! I felt it for a week! But now…well, they are a bit run-of-the-mill to be honest.
…to everyone who ran the London marathon last weekend! And a special good luck to my friend Marion, who will be running the Edinburgh Marathon next month! I am incredibly proud of all the hard training and effort you have put into it!
We have had a young girl in the gym doing work experience all this week. And while I hope it has been a good learning experience for her, I know it has been a good one for me. This is because she has been asking loads of good questions. Ranging from really simple, to really advanced, but all of them making me re-think and re-remember all the stuff I “know” about exercise.
It was the first week back off the easter hols, so we had a nice easy session this week.
The group was split into 2 groups, and they alternated between shuttle runs and the following exercises…
In my usual glance through the news, I saw this story (click here). Would you have ice cream or a jam doughnut for breakfast? I hope not! But the story tells how many of our “healthy” breakfast cereals have more sugar than either of these unhealthy sweets.
Because of films, magazines and the media, about 99% of people seem to think that weight training = bodybuilding. This is not true. Bodybuilding is only a small subsection of weight training.
Instead I want you to think of weight training as a car mechanics garage…
I’m back! I went back home to Aberystwyth for my holiday and have a fantastic time by the sea!
But I’m back now with just one story from when I was away. Chatting to an old friend who is very enthusiastic, and always wants to make sure she is doing the “best” thing to help her lose weight. And she showed me this story here, recommending average calorie levels be increased. So she wanted to know if she should now suddenly start eating more.
Here is some invaluable advice for anyone who is new to exercise, or is thinking about starting to exercise…
A couple of months back I wrote about the basics of the 3 main reasons people come to the gym to exercise. One of these reasons is to lose weight.
Englands chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has called for “routine fitness tests” for secondary school children in an attempt to fight childhood obesity and inactivity levels. Click here for the story.
It has been a quiet day in work today. Only a couple of people booked in to coach, and I couldn’t convince anyone else to play with me.
So I had to watch a group of young lads playing with the freeweights for 2 hours and must have done about 50 different exercises with the weights. They were having great fun, they never stopped doing something the whole time and they left slapping eachother on the back congratulating for a job well done.
In the news today, it mentions that “two key treatments do not halt diabetes in people with early signs of the disease”. Click here to read the full story.