Yoga: ass-kickings and self-mastery
If you think yoga’s about becoming flexible, you’re wrong. It’s not about meditation either. Or about breathing. No. It’s all about you. The mastery of your body and all the control...
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Me and my gold medal self
Ok blog, it’s time you and I got it together. Properly. Yes, I know you’ve been wondering what the hell I’ve been doing, how I could neglect you so, and what...
Read moreEmerging from winter
Finally the weather here in the normally dull and grey city of London is turning. The birds are singing, annoying the crap out of me whilst I try and sleep, the...
Read moreMy first year in calisthenics
Now is, give or take a couple of weeks, the anniversary of my first year doing calisthenics. My first experience of strength training after seven years of karate and other martial...
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2012: My year in review
This year has seen some pretty dramatic changes for me with regards to my training, and whilst I would normally avoid these tedious “Year in Review” posts I feel like I...
Read more60 seconds of fame
Neill Timms of Incite Fitness has been travelling around the UK making 60 second films of the countries best bar athletes. A few weeks ago he was up at Primrose and took...
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1RM – 20 and 25kg
1RM means “1 repetition max” – the term for the amount of weight you can lift for one rep (and the way that the winners of powerlifting competitions and so on...
Read moreShiny and new
After much time spent messing around with CSS (is there anything worse than editing other peoples code?!), CNAME’s, DNS’s another other mysterious acronyms, I have finally launched on my new domain...
Read moreChanges afoot
I’m doing some changes to the blog – some quite exciting, some quite mundane. I’m messing around with the template, which is why it currently has a Winter Wonderland-style background. Please...
Read moreUpdate: Rested and (mostly) recovered
After a week off and a reduced training schedule, my shoulder seems to be on the mend. Much as it pains me to admit to being wrong (facing up to such...
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