The Zen of Tendonitis (And Other Injuries)
The most common ailment of the calisthenics athlete is tendonitis – an inflammation of the tendons, in this case where they insert around the elbow – caused by overuse. Pretty much everyone...
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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,...
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...
Calisthenics workshop review
Is it the done thing to review a series of workshops that you taught yourself? I’m not really sure, but Ima do it anyway… This summer, I led a series of...
Bands vs. negatives (and some philosophising)
The two most common methods of learning to do a pull up are to either use a resistance band, such as the one in the photo below, or to do “negatives”,...
Street Workout London event: my thoughts
The weekend before last was a big street workout event here in London. There were a couple of disappointing things about the day, which this post is mostly about, but before...
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...
Bar-barians Forum Challenge – Killin’ Gravity
Every month on the Bar-barians forum a new challenge is posted. Actually there are generally three: normal, hard and bar-baric modes. Every month I think about entering, but because my training...
Guest Post: Bar-barian seminar, London, March ’13
Last weekend was the first set of Bar-barian seminars to be held in London. Because it fell in the middle of my six week pull/push/dip free period (in order to try...
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...
