Sometimes, you have to admit you were wrong. Sometimes that can be quite hard to do, sometimes it means you have to swallow your pride and face up to it. Sometimes, however, you can be happy to be wrong. I am happy to admit I was wrong. If you have read a few of my…
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I was speaking recently to someone about the concept of progress, or progression. The notion of progress is evocative, and understandably so: it speaks to the part of everyone that wants to be better or improve, and in that way it’s closely connected to the idea of realising your dreams. But the actual tangible process…
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Bear with me for this. I know this is a training blog, not a life-coaching seminar but I want to share some beliefs I have that apply equally to life as much as they do to training, in my humble opinion. Besides if this was part of a life-coaching seminar you’d be paying a lot…
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One common question people who are new to training ask is: How many times a week do I NEED to be training? Can I get away with doing only 2 sessions a week? What if I’m already doing a lot of sports, can I just go once a week? I read that you need to…
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It’s obviously no secret that Bruce Lee holds a pretty high status not just among martial arts aficionados but millions of people the world over, based largely on his near-mythic athletic exploits. I have just started to read more into him , and while there seems to be a fair amount of the expected hubris…
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I shut the car door, hands shivering slightly as I turned the ignition and then the heaters to full blast. As the layer of ice on the windshield slowly began to thin, I shut my eyes for a few seconds, considering whether I wanted to do this. It was 1am. The past 20 hours had…
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“4 weeks to massive muscle program!” “Gain 10 lbs of muscle in 4 weeks!” “Get lean in 4 weeks” “How to lose 20 lbs in one month!” These are all genuine headlines I’ve pulled from fitness magazines and a quick Google. I think we’re all familiar with the style: a quite big number (lbs of…
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Everyone struggles for motivation sometimes. Here are some of the things I have found myself thinking about when I’m walking to the gym that always help me get in the mood to make a potentially lacklustre session into a positive one. 1. Live in the present I always find it a bit cheesy when people…
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If you follow this blog you might have read my recent post called ‘Blame your parents‘. If you’re new here or haven’t read it, please click on the link and have a look at it before you continue with this post. It’s ok, we’ll all wait for you. … Finished? Hopefully the take-away message was…
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Max as tested on 10/01/2015- 220 kgs So as I said a couple of weeks ago I would be taking a bit of time off from the Deadlift Challenge due to picking up an injury and generally feeling a bit burned out. Initially I set out a 10 week program to a new PR, but…
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