Good news! Starting Monday I will be leading bootcamp 2 days a week, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm at Evolution in Aurora. It’s a boatload more work for me, but it’s a great exercise in seeing if I can apply what I do for myself to other people. With the new gym it should be [...]

Bootcamp 12 – Last Day. We increased the weights where possible and went for lower reps with perfect form. This is the list: Week 12 – Whole body Max 80/20 split squats full sit toe touch push up or alt ball pushup or bosu curls press super skaters V Snaps military or bosu military hammer [...]

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 [...]

I have yet to master the front squat. Maybe it is anatomically impossible given my back history, but since I am able to back squat no problem it’s bothering me. I think there are 2 pieces here, I have large protruding anterior deltoids and a thick chest which means I have a very hard time [...]

Like I said yesterday, it’s been about 6 weeks since I did an Insanity workout so I was a little nervous about getting my ass handed to me while Shaun T tells me to “push, push, push” like a midwife on crack. I reckoned enough was enough, it was time to get back at it. [...]

I know it’s only October but let’s be honest, Halloween is a week away, after which it’s only 7 weeks until Christmas then a week until 2012. That means it’s time to get a little more serious. There will be meals out, parties that will interfere with the schedule, cold weather that will make workouts [...]

My parents who were here for the last 2 weeks leave today which is sad in many ways, yet a relief in one way. I made a deal with myself that I wouldn’t stress about my workouts or my diet while they were here and I managed to do just that. In fact, my relaxed [...]

I decided to try the WOD from yesterday’s Fitbomb entry which looked like this: Strength: Turkish Get Ups (45lb KB) (I made it through 15 per side, 1-2-3-4-5) Metcon: 5 sets: 12 deadlift 155lb 9 hang clean 155lb 6 push press 155lb (it was actually jerk press but I decided to push) I got through [...]

Day 31 was Friday, as in the past weeks I took Thursday after bootcamp as a rest day. Friday I did a mini Fran with the girls at gym but instead of just thrusters and chinups they did: 10-15-10-15-5 Thrusters Chin Ups Push Ups V Snaps Saturday we were at a hotel out of town [...]