Ninja Warrior
This is the whole story of how I ended up on prime time television on the second biggest TV network in the country earlier this year (it’s a bit late,...
Tagged: bodyweight
DIY: Parallettes
When I won the Parallettes 1 course from GMB at the end of 2013, I only had little push up handles from Argos (left of the photo below) to do my workouts...
Upcoming workshops… taught by yours truly!
Last year I did an Olympic Lifting for Beginners course, run by Sally Moss of Strength Ambassadors. Sally and I have kept in touch, and a few months ago I received an email...
Being challenged
Being part of the bar calisthenics community has meant making friends across the world – sharing workout tips, motivating each other and generally being part of a global scene via Facebook,...
Training away
I got back earlier in the week from a short family holiday to visit one of my sisters (who I will just call “L”, for the sake of privacy) who lives...
Max reps
Normally I design my own training routines, rather than following ones in books or websites, but a friend who had just started bodyweight training reported really good success with the 50pullups.com...
Home workout
Redefined.
FriMonday Inspiration: Grrrl power
Perhaps the end of the Olympics contributed to girls going out and doing kick-ass things over the weekend, because today all of these appeared on my Facebook wall. First up is...
[Not so] new training
For the time being I’ve pretty much stopped karate in so far as I’m not a member of a dojo and don’t practice very regularly, except for sessions on the punch...
Re-birth of the ninja
This blog’s been sitting like a (admittedly very small) weight on my shoulders for all too long now, but I’ve finally come up with a plan to kick it’s sorry ass....
