April 2009

Friday Fun – Dogs are dumb

30 April 2009

Last week was cats, and this week’s friday fun videos just go to show how stupid dogs can be. First up, this dog is broken, I’d ask for my money back if I were you: The case of the amazing disappearing burrito: Dog Trapped in Invisible Forcefield:

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Friday Fun – Cat videos

23 April 2009

There’s not a lot that the internet does better than videos of cats, and here are some corkers. Checkout the pupil dilation on this cart video, it’s amazing! Great timed music too, wait for it, it takes 20 secs to get going: Ahhh isn’t it cute when cats and dogs are friends. Checkout what happens [...]

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100 Inverted Burpees – For time

21 April 2009

I was browsing the main Crossfit.com site at lunch time and the workout for last Saturday was: – For time: 100 Inverted burpees I’ve never heard of inverted burpees before and they look like an interesting thing to try (click image for the big version): “The Inverted Burpee: starting supine, kip (or sit-up and roll) [...]

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Chocolate Coated Coffee Beans – YUM!

19 April 2009

I bought some of these chocolate covered coffee beans last week, and they are the roxors! Just to be clear, I didn’t just by *some*, I bought *loads*. 3kg to be precise. It’s not really my fault, they got proportionately cheaper, the more you buy, so it was… well… a saving… sort of. Oh dear. [...]

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Friday Fun – Paintball Miniguns and Turrets!

16 April 2009

I recently went to Asylum Paintball at Pear Mill in Stockport, which was awesome fun. I remember the first time I went paintballing, over 15 years ago, and the only guns available were push-to-load pistols. In fact I remember the revolution that was the pump action paintball rifle! Now the guns are fire-as-fast-as-your-finger-moves semi automatics. It [...]

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Crossfit Manchester at the English Indoor Rowing Championships

14 April 2009

The results are out for the English Indoor Rowing Championships, which many of my friends from Crossfit Manchester attended. I was planning to enter myself, but it was the same weekend as the Northern Masters weightlifting, and despite Crossfit’s tremendous multi modal fitness, training for both a weightlifting and rowing competition on the same weekend, [...]

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Giles Greenwood – Bethnal Green Coach

8 April 2009

I’ve just realised that I never got round to posting up the picture of me and Giles Greenwood, one of the coaches at Bethnal Green. Well here it is: If you don’t remember me mentioning him before, Giles is the British Record holder for the Snatch (180 kg / 396 lbs) and Clean & Jerk [...]

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Friday Fun – More Photoshopped Girls

2 April 2009

I’ve previously posted an amazing video of someone editing a fat girl, thin, with photoshop. These are 2 more videos in the same vein. I’m amazed by what you can do with PhotoShop! WPvideo 1.10 It just goes to show, that you can’t believe what you see on TV or in the magazines. This video [...]

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