September 2009

Weightlifting Program – Week 3

30 September 2009

This is this week’s weightlifting program. It’s the last hard week of strength before easy week and reintroduction of classical lifts next week. I can only do 3 days this week so: Session 1 Power Clean Push Jerk – 6 sets of 3 up to 80% (of Push Jerk) = 72.5kg High Pull of Clean [...]

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Some Great Quotes

27 September 2009

Here are some great quotes that have crossed my path in the last year or so. Some I know the source, others not, but they are all profound: A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – *THE* Cutest Video EVER!

24 September 2009

Choke on the cuteness of the most amazing video I have ever seen: Teaching a wolf to howl, how cool is that?!? There’s only room for one video this week, simply because nothing can top that…

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Hungarian Weightlifting Program Update

23 September 2009

Last week I wrote about the start of my Hungarian influenced 9 week Olympic weightlifting training program. This week, I started week 2, which it won’t come as any surprise, is harder than week 1! Even my coach from Crossfit Manchester said: “This is really hard!” which is a worrying thing to hear from Mark [...]

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The Weekend in South Wales

21 September 2009

Had a great weekend with my daughter, who came down to Newport. After some searching on the net for what to do all weekend, I finally settled on the following activities: Saturday day we went to At Bristol with some friends, which is hands on Science Museum thing with mandatory Planetarium. They had the usual [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – More Cat Videos

17 September 2009

Yes I know, *more* cat videos. It’s not my fault, cats are cute, and the internet was pretty much invented for cat videos, so what ya gona do? This first one is the ultimate in cat stoicism, as this cat tries to ignore the fact that it’s sitting on a monster subwoofer! Cat must have [...]

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Day 1 of my 9 week Olympic Weightlifting Training Program

16 September 2009

I’ve started the build up to the North Open Weightlifting competition in 9 weeks, and have started following a vaguely Hungarian influenced training program.  I can only manage to train 4 days a week, not the 6 prescribed, but we’ll have to see how it goes.  Here’s the first week’s program: Day 1 Power Hang [...]

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30 Day Paleo Diet Experiment – Terminated

14 September 2009

At the beginning of September, I decided to have a go at the Paleo Diet. In brief, you could call this the caveman diet, the stone age diet, the “don’t eat anything invented in the last 10,000 years” diet. So you can see that there’s a lot of things that you can’t eat when eating [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun Post

10 September 2009

Let’s start with a very short BBC News reader blooper. What goes wrong when comma’s are left off the auto prompter: WPvideo 1.10 I used to keep rats as pets. They are actually friendly, sociable and very clean animals. But even I would be hard pressed to look after a rat that’s the size of [...]

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Would you take a 1 way trip to Mars?

6 September 2009

Last year I applied for the ESA astronaut program and so keep an interest in general space developments. This weekend I read an excellent article this weekend by Lawrence Krauss (the author of “The Physics of ‘Star Trek.’”) who proposes a rather novel solution to the problem of the expense of a manned Mars mission: [...]

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