January 2011

2010 Achievements

25 January 2011

In the new year, it’s never a bad thing I think to look back at what you’ve achieved last year to objectively decide if you think it’s been a good year or not. It’s something I try to do every year, and I did last year. To be honest I felt last year was pretty [...]

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Secret Footage of Star Wars Death Star Destruction

18 January 2011

When I saw this I just had to post it: I don’t know why this makes me laugh so much, but it does.

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CrossFit Hero Workouts – Named after fallen warriors

11 January 2011

Some time ago, I created a list of the Girls Named CrossFit Workouts. I intended on doing this post ages ago, but never quite got round to it. It’s the brother post to the girls post, in that it’s the Hero CrossFit workouts, so called because they are named after CrossFitting solders, law enforcement officers [...]

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Down 5lbs in 7 days – New Year’s Diet Update

8 January 2011

Whilst I know the first week is always the fastest in terms of weight loss, I’m pleased with losing 5lbs in the first week of the new year, dropping from 193lbs to 188 (13st11 to 13st6). If my Tanita scales are to be believed, my body fat percentage has dropped from 20.0% to 19.4%, which [...]

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Paleo Diet Explained in a Simple Video

6 January 2011

I just saw this video over at Mads Jacobsen’s blog which does a great job of explaining the Paleo diet approach: WPvideo 1.10 Personally I mostly follow the Paleo diet where possible (in Zone Diet proportions), but I do add milk and dairy. The reason is, we did evolve to drink milk, your mum’s milk. [...]

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2011 New Year’s Resolutions and General Life Update

1 January 2011

Well, that didn’t go according to plan! This time last year, I wrote up 3 New Year’s Resolutions, which were: Give up booze for the whole of 2010, no exceptions. Give up sugar in all its forms. Yes that means chocolate, for all of 2010! Earn enough money online to be able to give up [...]

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