April 2007

Falling off the Zone Wagon

26 April 2007

Hmmm 2 chocky bars and a bottle of wine last night.  Not exactly Zone friendly, but nice for a treat all the same. Here’s a question then: when over eating on carbs, what’s the best approach from a Zone perspective?  Is it to just ignore it and get back on the zone diet at your [...]

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Crossfit Workouts including 3 rep 100KG front squats!

23 April 2007

Friday April 20th 5 rounds of: 5 Shoulder Presses 10 Push Presses 15 Split Jerks Using a 35kg bar, this was a tough one. I think by the 4th round it took me 5 mins to do just the 5 shoulder presses! I managed it, but in a very slow 32:31 (when compared to everyone [...]

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Is FreeIQ going to be the next YouTube?

23 April 2007

Brad Fallon is a serial entrepreneur who is launching a new site call FreeIQ. The basic premise is that you can uploaded informational videos, eBooks, audio etc of how to do stuff. Other users will rate the videos so you will get peer reviewed content, sorted by category. Of course being Brad, there’s going to [...]

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Half ton man loses 400 lbs (180kg) on the Zone Diet

22 April 2007

I watched a shocking bit of TV the other day, about Manuel Uribe, who is (or was) officially the fattest man on the planet, weighing in at about 1/2 a ton, or more specifically: 1,200 lbs, 87 stone or 550kg! Not surprisingly, he hadn’t left his bed for 5 years! This is he: Faced with [...]

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Crossfit Workout Updates

20 April 2007

This last weeks workout highlights: Mon 16th April Gah, this was a disaster for me: Run 430m, then 10 rounds of: 5 Pull Ups 10 Press Ups 15 Squats then another Run of 430m I appear to have dinged my shoulder from Saturdays heavy dumb bell work, and had to bail on the pull ups [...]

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Oops, got my Body Fat Calc wrong

16 April 2007

Earlier I popped back to the main Crossfit website, to post an update on my intro post some 6 months ago. I noticed whilst I was there that back in Sept 2006 I said I was 43 inches round the fattest part of my waist (and was wearing 38″ trousers for it). In other words, [...]

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Recent Crossfit Workouts

16 April 2007

Thursday: Row 500m 50 Box Jump 50 Press Ups 20 DB Snatch (Each arm) 50 Sit Ups 50 Wall Ball 50 Lunge Walk 20 Turkish Get Up 50 DB Swing 50 Double Under Turkish get ups are funny. Lie on your back facing the sky, pick up 1 dumb bell (I was using 12kg for [...]

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Google Checkout comes to the UK

13 April 2007

I predict this is going to revolutionise Google advertising. Basically Google are jumping on the PayPal bandwagon and offering their own payment processing scheme. All well and good you may think, but the key here is that they are integrating it with Google AdWords (the adverts you see down the right hand side when searching [...]

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How to eat Mash on the Zone Diet

12 April 2007

Mash potato, hmmm. I do miss it on the Zone Diet, but have discovered a surprising alternative: Cauliflower! Now I never did just eat simple mash potato, I’ve done it for years like this: Boil the potatoes When done tip into the pot some butter Add some Mayonnaise Add some grated cheese Add a spoonful [...]

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Crossfit Cleans

12 April 2007

Had 4 days off over the Easter weekend so was looking forward to getting back. Today was clean-tastic! Even the warmup was medicine ball cleans from first principles. Here’s a video of a Crossfit clean: clean.wmv Cleans for 1 rep max: 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 My [...]

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