CrossFit Workout & Exercises

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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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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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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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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My new Personal Safety website: PDRManchester.com

20 October 2011
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For the last 6 weeks I’ve been working hard on building a new website and am very pleased to say it’s now ready for public consumption. As you may know, whilst I might be a mild mannered office worker by day, I have a super hero alter-ego as a self defence coach. Well maybe not [...]

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Finding Inspiration and Motivation

11 October 2011

When things in life are bad, it’s worthwhile taking a moment to check out some of the wonderful things you find on this great internet of ours, for the purposes of inspiration and motivation in life. Here are a few of my favourites: The Holstee Manifesto This is pure inspiration on a sheet of A4. [...]

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MRI Results = SLAP Tear (Shoulder Labrum)

3 October 2011
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This morning I had a Consultant’s appointment to get the result of my MRI and Arthrogram for my shoulder injury. Previously I’d been diagnosed with a PASTA lesion, which is a tear of the supraspinatus rotator cuff tendon, and the MRI was to look for a SLAP tear as well, which is where the cartilage [...]

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Corticosteroid Injection Side Effects for Golfers Elbow

24 September 2011
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I do try to keep up with what’s going on in the medical profession when it comes to golfer’s elbow treatment and recently came across this interesting article regarding a particular case of steroid injection for golfer’s elbow. If you don’t like all the technical speak, skip straight to the last sentence which is the [...]

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Exercise from Day 1 may be best after SLAP Surgery

12 September 2011
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Mikael Kornihkov, over at the CrossFit Message Boards has posted up a really interesting medical paper that details the results of an experiment on shoulder surgery patients, to determine whether it’s best to keep the shoulder immobilised for several weeks (as per current conventional thinking) or whether you should start exercising the day after shoulder [...]

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Burpees with a Torn Rotator Cuff, Yay Burpees!

7 September 2011

Since I’ve returned to exercising and prehabilitating my shoulder’s torn rotator cuff by doing rotator cuff tear friendly exercises, I’ve noticed a marked improvement in my shoulder pain. No it’s not fixed, nor close to it but to be honest, if it wasn’t for wanting to exercises fully again, I reckon I could live a [...]

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