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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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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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British Masters Weightlifting Champion – Oooh that sounds good!

30 March 2010

Thanks for all the messages of support, I can confirm that I did win my category at the 2010 BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting championship finals this weekend. I was expecting to be lifting against Anthony (Tony) Down, from the Empire Club in Bristol, but it turned out that he came in overweight for the [...]

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British Master Buildup Over

24 March 2010

Well the British Masters Championships are this weekend, and if I’m not ready now, I’ll never be. Which is to say, I’m not ready now! I hate preparing for competitions because I’m *never* ready! This week’s lifting went ok, but could have been better. The highlights are, on Tuesday I managed 3 out of 6 [...]

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Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition – 2 weeks to go

18 March 2010

I’m pleased to report that my hamstring tweak had mostly cleared itself up by Tuesday, so I was able to train as I’d intended. There was still a little soreness there, but 98% there. However, that didn’t prevent the disaster that was Tuesday’s snatches! Tuesday followed my normal routine of snatches for 45ish mins then [...]

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Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition – 4 weeks to go

4 March 2010

I’ve started seriously thinking about the BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition at Lilleshall (I came 2nd last year) at the end of March and how I’m going to prepare for it. For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve not done as much lifting as I should have done in preparation for this competition. [...]

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Crossfit Kelly, Clean & Jerks and Zone Experimentation

3 February 2010

I’m experimenting with dropping my carb intake a bit and upping my fats. I’m still doing about 15 blocks per day of protein, but only 8-9ish of carbs and about 30 of fat. And to be honest, I’m feeling pretty good this week. Did 2 major WODs this week, yesterday’s Crossfit Snatch workout which was [...]

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Ouch Ouch Ouch – Crossfit kicks my butt

19 January 2010

Going back to the Cardiff gym this week, for the first time since November, was always going to be messy but I’m as sore as I’ve ever been right now. I decided to do workouts from the main Crossfit.com site. I can’t necessarily follow their daily scheme, either because like today, it’s a rest day, [...]

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This Weekend’s Weightlifting Shambles

24 November 2009

It’s hard to start this post… without resorting to impolite expletives! This weekend’s weightlifting competition went about as wrong as it could have done, short of bombing (failing to get any lifts). I could wax lyrical about my failures, but can’t quite face it to be honest. It was a shambles that’s soonest forgotten. The [...]

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