July 2009

Friday Fun – New Tron Legacy Trailer

31 July 2009

This looks awesome, coming out in 2010 in Disney 3D, although having the bikes able to turn smooth corners, shambles! WPvideo 1.10 BUT, is this better, or utterly awful (2nd act is the best, watch that one if nothing else)? WPvideo 1.10

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Weightloss On Target

29 July 2009

The Yorkshire Masters weightlifting competition is just over 2 weeks away now, and my attempt to make the 77kg category is going well. Below is my fitday weight goal graph, which I’ve been updating every day, except for the week I was on holiday. Amazingly I was quite good and ended the week weighing exactly [...]

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Formula 1 Massa Crash Footage

26 July 2009

Edit: Pesky F1 have been pulling YouTube videos off the footage as fast as they were put up. I’ve replaced the two that no longer work with one with static pictures instead: I’ve just been watching a re-run of the Forumla 1 qualifying in Hungary for today’s Hungarian Grand Prix, in which Ferrari’s Felipe Massa [...]

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Friday Fun – Crossfit Games Videos 2009

24 July 2009

EDIT: QuickTime Embed Plugin disabled, due to pre-downloading the content which caused the site to slow down too much. Here are some awesome videos of the Crossfit Games 2009 that went on last week. A finer collection of athletes I’m sure you will not find. It should also answer once and for all, the issue [...]

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The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet

20 July 2009

I forget why I’m reading this book now (someone must have recommended it to me) but the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet has an interesting twist on the usual “low carb is best” mantra of alternative diets. It boils down to this: 1) Eat 2 very low carb “Complementary meals” per day. E.g. 3-4oz of protein + [...]

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Friday Fun – Total Eclipse of the Heart Spoof

16 July 2009

If you’re around my age, you’ll have grown up when Bonnie Tyler’,s A Total Eclipse of the Heart was a smash hit. I can certainly still sing along to it like a good’un. I nearly wet myself when I saw this spoof video, very funny: WPvideo 1.10

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Clean and Jerk Practice Video

13 July 2009

This is a video of a training session at Crossfit Manchester. I posted my training Snatches last week, so this is the Clean and Jerk vid. This time I’ve included one’s that didn’t go quite according to plan! I was trying to get 5 lifts at 95% of my personal best, so at 95kg (209 [...]

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Friday Fun – Class A Catnip

9 July 2009

There are a million videos of cats on catnip on YouTube, but this snippet from a documentary is superbly put together and shows a mass cat stoning: WPvideo 1.10

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Build up for the Yorkshire Masters

7 July 2009

I may have mentioned, I’ve entered the Yorkshire Masters as a guest lifter in August. This is my first potential qualifying competition of the year as I have to re-qualify for the BWLA British Masters again for next year. As before, in the 85kg weight category for Men aged 35-39, I have to lift a [...]

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The best CrossFit Friendly gym in Cardiff: Aspire Fitness

7 July 2009

EDIT: Feb 2011 Since writing this post, a dedicated CrossFit gym has opened in Cardiff: CrossFit Cardiff funnily enough! I recommend you go there (near Boulders Climbing Wall) and get proper CrossFit coaching from my mate Jon Hares, he’s a top coach and top fella to boot. Failing that, there’s also Dragon CrossFit, who operate [...]

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