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Training Status Updates
The ChallengeTraining Update 1 - 2009 Training SummaryTraining Update 2 - 2009 - 2010 UK Bouldering Competition ResultsTraining Update 3 - Three Simple GoalsTraining Status Update 4 - Five weeks In...
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The Challenge: Progress
This is a page that I will be updating regularly as a record of my progress and tactics for the items of the challenge. Updated 06/05/2010.1- Handstand Push up (Free standing)My Free standing handstand...
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The Challenge
Welcome to my blog. This blog began as a facebook group but, inspired by another blogger, I decided that updates would be easier on here.This is the challenge I have set myself and anybody who wishes...
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Tough Guy 2009
On the first of February, I entered the infamous Tough guy race. For those who haven't heard of it, Tough Guy is a bi-annual obstacle/endurance race held in the Midlands of my little Island Grande...
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Where I am re: The Challenge
So, I have laid down the gauntlet to anyone who is interested in taking it. As this blog began as a Facebook group, it has already been going a while and I have had a chance to make a dent in the list....
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General Aims: Cast away your limits, they are illusions
I want to define some of the general aims of this blog. Having been brought up by a father who was a pretty fanatical fitness freak himself, I began emulating him from a very young age. I was always...
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Review: Captains of Crush grippers
One of the biggest indicators of strength when you first meet someone is when you shake their hand and feel either a vice like grip or a sweaty, limp hand. The strongest grip that I ever came across...
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The Iron Cross
Progress report: 6 MonthsI have been training for the Iron Cross for six months now once or sometimes twice a week. Despite only averaging once a week, my progress has been satisfyingly steady.Every...
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Iron Cross Training Session 01/07/2009
I had my best overall session last night training static holds for the Iron Cross! Here is a video of my best level 4 hold that night. Level 3 has also now become very easy and i can hold it without...
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Ring Training Aids Comparison
Before I first tried to hold a simple support position on the rings last October, I didn't fully appreciate the immense level of strength that Olympic gymnasts possess through training with this...
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Slow Muscle Up on the Rings
After capitulating to the demands of her majesties finest (can you believe the Police would threaten to arrest us for hanging rings from "The Queens Trees" in Hyde Park due to a law passed in the...
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Muscle up Training Guide
The Muscle Up, simply stated, is a combination of a pull up and a dip. It consists of three main elements; the pull up, the transition and the dip. It can be performed either on a bar or on a set of...
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The Importance of Setting Relevant Goals
The legendary Wolfgang Gullich on Action Directe 9a Setting goals is an excellent way to push ourselves beyond our current limits. Measuring progress is made significantly...
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The Dragon Flag
I recently achieved the Dragon Flag which is item nine on my list. I've left it a couple of weeks to Iron out the glitches in technique and form before posting this video.The Dragon Flag was first...
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Training Status Update 1
OK, so I haven't posted in quite some time now. I think all but the most gifted blogger -and I don't presume to be among their ranks- comes up against the quality/frequency hurdle. On one hand, you...
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Training Status Update 2 - Bouldering Competitions 2009-2010
After an unexpected win in a bouldering competition in early October 2009, I changed the focus of my training to bouldering related strength and away from the items on my list.For those of you who...
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Short Cuts, Quick Fixes and Natural Talent
If you've browsed the web in the last year or so -and I imagine that in reading this blog then you probably have- you'll no doubt have encountered several prevalent ads selling highly questionable...
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Training Status Update 3 - Three Simple Goals
So, I've been back from Borneo for one month now and have made the single biggest change to my training in seven years... I've stopped climbing.Simply put, I've had far too many active goals for too...
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Training Status Update 4 - Five Weeks In
Just over a month ago, I set myself three goals in which I want to focus. Here is my progress thus far. In the diagram below, the numbers represent repetitions per set of HeSPU and reps in which my...
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The Handstand
I've been practicing the handstand solidly for a while now and am making slow but steady progress.The basics of the position are relatively easy to learn but it feels like one of those things that take...
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