July 2010

I’ve Left Crossfit Manchester

27 July 2010

As rubbish as it is to announce this sort of thing on the net, working away from home currently means that it’s the simplest way of not having to repeat myself over the next few weeks. As of yesterday (Monday 26th July) I’m no longer a member of Crossfit Manchester, something I never thought I’d [...]

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How to Pick Your Nose like a Prime Minister

22 July 2010

Soooo funny: WPvideo 1.10

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“Oi Colin, I’m trying your diet”

15 July 2010

“Oi Colin, I’m trying your diet” – So started the conversation I had with one of my work colleagues yesterday. “Oh really?” I replied. “And what diet are you trying exactly?” Long story short, one of the guys I work with, who I’ve been sporadically talking to about Crossfit and weight lifting and the zone [...]

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How Many World Cup Heart Attacks Were There?

12 July 2010

I think it was in the excellent book The Great Cholesterol Con where I first read that football and heart attacks were linked. That claim is backed up by this piece of research done when France won the 1998 world cup. In which it says: Instead of about 33 deaths a day in the five [...]

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The Lindsay Lohan Game – YouTube Video Series

11 July 2010

Now I like internet videos. Some are funny, some are shocking, but this one is by far the best YouTube video ever. Why? Well, remember those interactive adventure books you used to read as a kid, where you’d get to the bottom of the page and you’d have to make a plot decision? “If you [...]

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Fatness Leads To Inactivity, But Inactivity Does Not Lead To Fatness

8 July 2010

An interesting British study following 202 kids for 3 years has announced that “fatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness”. Whilst there is no suggestion that exercise isn’t good for children, they have determined that activity levels are not a predictor of Body Mass Index (BMI). Rather the reverse is true, [...]

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BWLA Assistant Club Coaches’ Course Review

5 July 2010

I completed the British Weight Lifting Association’s (BWLA) Assistant Club Coaches’ Course this weekend, and thought it would be nice to write up a few things about it. It was a 2 day course, all day Saturday and Sunday, and teaches you how to coach the basic Olympic Weightlifting lifts, specifically the Snatch, Clean and [...]

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BWLA Olympic Weightlifting Coaches Course

3 July 2010

I’m looking forward this weekend to attending the British Weight Lifting Association Assistant Club Coaches Olympic weightlifting course, which is being hosted by Crossfit Manchester. Whilst I’m not sure I have any specific ambitions to become an Olympic weightlifting coach, it’s certainly a skill that’s worth having, and as the course is happening on my [...]

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