I’m still trying to get back into the swing after my sickness. It’s not that I feel sick, just that I can’t seem to generate the same kind of crushing momentum I had before. Maybe it’s the weather, this time of year is a real pain to keep motivated, grey days, rain, cold, all of [...]

I was thinking in the car this morning, as I often do, about the mental aspects of training and the effects that our environment have on us. Last night I made a thinly veiled attempt to work out but I just couldn’t manage the weight. I did what I usually would do if I didn’t [...]

I have said it before, if you don’t get your rest, your body will force you to. I have learned to accept that there will be times when I won’t be able to stick to my 6 day a week regime, that things beyond my control will determine what I am able to do. And [...]

I need to eat more vegetables. I need to find a good supplement for my primal diet since the above will probably always hold true. I need to get more sleep. I need to stop talking about it and just do it and in order to do that I need to take a moment and [...]

I can’t believe it’s been 10 weeks of bootcamp already! I wanted to do a quick synopsis to get an idea of what to do tonight… Week 1 – Intro mostly chest and legs Week 2 –  Tabata, arms, abs, mobility and plyo/legs Week 3 –  Abs and leg agility with boxes Week 4 – [...]

Last night with the girls I gave them the option of doing one of 4 items. They were supposed to do 10 of each for a total of 20 in 20 minutes. I later decided that choice was not something you give a teenager so I made them do 5 of each. In fact they [...]

Since I am not working to a schedule and therefore not working in a week of “rest week” workouts I am constantly guessing at my overtraining status. I am sure that I am far from overtrained, but the nagging aches and pains that I get after about 3 weeks of constant working seems to indicate otherwise. This [...]

Bootcamp 9 20-14-8 curls presses weighted squat AGILITY hammer curl reverse press military pushup AGILITY push ups laying fly laying pullover AGILITY walking lunge weighted pistol with knee lift air squat AGILITY plank hold 60s elbow plank hold 60s plank walk in 10x plank walk side 5x each plank hold 60s elbow plank hold 60s [...]

I feel like a racehorse during a long race. I remember when I was young we used to live by a horse racing course which was quite a large circuit, I would guess 4 miles or so. There was a big stand at the far side of the Knavesmire in Dringhouses that lined the start [...]

Bootcamp this week was a good one, but a weird one. On completing the workout I wondered if it was enough, if it was difficult or interesting enough and for the first time during this bootcamp I was a little nervous about it. Turns out though that this was a hit! We used the blocks [...]