Colin McNulty

Should You Participate in the CrossFit Open Games?

13 February 2012

The CrossFit Games season is upon us again, but should you participate? First off if you don’t know, CrossFit (is one of the fastest growing sports in America according to Forbes magazine) and the CrossFit Games are a worldwide open competition that anyone can enter, aimed at finding the Fittest on Earth. Here’s a quick [...]

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Tony Blauer is coming to London

31 January 2012
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On the 3rd March, Tony Blauer himself is flying into London to give a Be Your Own Bodyguard 1 day seminar at Crossfit Central London. I’ll be there, along with many of the other Personal Defence Readiness (PDR) Coaches from around the UK and Ireland. If you’ve never seen Tony teach his very unique brand [...]

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I’ve Lost 7lbs (1/2 stone) in 11 Days, How’s Your Christmas Mince Pie Flab Doing?

14 January 2012
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What a good start to the New Year’s efforts to loose the Christmas flab! This morning saw me break the 1/2 stone (7 lbs / 3 kg) loss mark, since I started being good again on Tuesday 3rd Jan, which is 11 days ago at the time of writing. What’s even better is that includes [...]

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How I Lost My Beer Belly, It’s Easier Than You Think

1 January 2012

Whilst it is a shocking affront to my delicate English sensibilities to post pictures of myself in my pants onto the net, in the circumstances, it seems like the right thing to do. For your reference, these series of photos were taken 3 months apart each, and so chart what’s possible over a 6 month [...]

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Over Population – Slowly People Are Realising

18 December 2011
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It gets my goat that politicians still haven’t answered the most basic of planning questions: how many people should this country contain? I firmly believe that until you decide how many people you want in the country, you can’t possibly have a sensible conversation about anything to do with the country’s infrastructure. If you don’t [...]

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The Calorie Values on most Food Labels are Wrong

9 December 2011
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Further to my very popular recent article on why calorie counting is flawed, I just received this link by email from a friend, which exposes the fact that the calorie values on food are all wrong, because they’re based on the raw ingredients of food. Whereas in fact as soon as you cook / process [...]

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I’ve Cancelled My Shoulder Op

5 December 2011
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If you’re a regular to my blog (there are several thousand of you) you will have seen me sporadically post about my shoulder injury. I won’t bore you with the sordid details again, as I’ve already done into details about my SLAP tear, MRI + Arthrogram scan, and how I did it doing CrossFit’s butterfly [...]

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Bandwidth Exceeded – Oops!

30 November 2011
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My apologies if you were unable to access this site in the last 24 hours, getting this rather sparse error message: As you can see it’s fixed now; who knew a GigeByte a day wouldn’t be enough! Only last month I posted that this site had tipped over 25,000 unique monthly visitors for the first [...]

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A Calorie, is not a Calorie, is not a Calorie!

22 November 2011
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Diet programs on TV depress me. They depress me because 90% of them continue to trot out the same old advice, which can be summed up as: Weight Change = Calories In – Calories Burned That statement was disproved 55 years ago Oh I wish it were so. I wish that you could reduce the [...]

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Video of CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman at SPEAR Combatives Camp 2011

29 October 2011
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Below are 2 videos of CrossFit Founder Greg Glassman giving a lecture at Tony Blauer’s Combatives Camp in Las Vegas earlier this year. I could listen to Coach G talking all day, but I particularly like his answer to the common question: “Which diet should I do, Paleo or Zone?” To which he said: “That’s [...]

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