June 2007

Crossfit Update – Weekly Roundup

30 June 2007

Tuesday 26th June Shoulder Press 3 – 3 – 3 – 3 – 3 – 3 – 3 Colin – 35 – 40 – 42.5 – 45 – 47.5PB – 50PB – 52.5PB I was really pleased with a big jump in PB here, my 1 rep PB was only 47.5 as well. Use of [...]

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Stag Do in London

26 June 2007

This weekend I had the honour of being invited to a mates stag do in London. This was especially fun as pretty much most of my long time friends from University were going too, and it’s always a good laugh when we get together. Planning for the weekend actually started 4 weeks ago, when I [...]

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Consequences of Crossfit Party Tricks

18 June 2007

My ham stings hurt! They hurt, because I was silly on Saturday night. I blame the booze of course, but most likely it’s just my own stupidity. Long story short, my eldest brother John and his fiancée Charu came over to stay for the night, which was nice because I rarely get to see my [...]

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Crossfit Snatches – Fun for all the family

12 June 2007

Yesterday was Snatches for max weight in reps of: 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 1 Then 3 rounds of: 5 Snatches 15 Over Head Squats Run 430m This is the first time for me Snatches have been done in a proper workout and I enjoyed them. Especially pleasing [...]

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Surprising Events on the Zone Diet Plan

11 June 2007

About 6 weeks ago, my wife and I started making sure our 6 year old daughter was eating zone proportioned meals. We gave her zone breakfasts, zone snacks to take to school, zone evening meals and educated her and encouraged her to make zone favourable choices for her school lunch. One of the supposed benefits [...]

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My legal case gets to the House of Lords!

8 June 2007

Well not exactly *my* case, but a case that I indirectly helped to fund, has finally reached the highest legal court in the land. First it was the Special Commissioners, then the High Court, then the Court of Appeal and now 5 law Lords from the House of Lords have been hearing the case for [...]

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It’s not every day your insurance company calls you to apologise!

7 June 2007

I got a call today from my car insurance company: eSure. It seems they regularly search the web for references to “eSure” and they picked up my eSure car insurance post yesterday. So the conversation goes something like this (paraphrased): eSure: Hi, I’m calling from eSure customer services, we’ve seen your post on the internet [...]

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Car Number Plates and Car Insurance Tales

6 June 2007

I saw 2 very funny number plates a few months back, both were on black luxury 4×4′s of some description, BMW X5′s with tinted windows I think but couldn’t be sure as they were passing on the other side of the road and I was laughing at the plates (not that I was distracted of [...]

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How to Cook a Blue Steak

5 June 2007

I’ve finally had enough of the internet failing to give me an answer to how to cook a blue steak and have decided to do my own step by step instructions. First off: What is a Blue Steak? If you think about the difference between well done and rare, well there is just as much [...]

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Crossfit Athletic Skills Standard – Level 2 coming along nicely

4 June 2007

I posted last week about achieving level 1 of the Crossfit Athletic Skills standards and have now started on the Level 2 tests. I already ticked off 4 by checking my Personal Best sheet, namely: 1 x bodyweight squat 1 1/2 x bodyweight dead lift 1/2 x bodyweight military press 500m row in 1:45 (I [...]

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