In the last few weeks I have stepped up my gym game with the help of my, now long-time, personal trainer Dane. With the help of a ‘diet plan’ (read: no bread or sugary snacks!) I have started a twelve week transformation challenge. I begin the challenge at 9 1/2 stone and with just over 7% body fat, my goal is to tone up whilst also training for the Manchester 10k at the end of this month. Look out for…
Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko After his victory on Saturday night, Anthony Joshua would have been forgiven for celebrating with reckless abandon. He had, after all, just defeated Wladimir Klitschko. Before Saturday Wladimir was arguably the most feared heavyweight of our time since the retirement of his brother, Vitali. Although Joshua entered Saturday’s fight as the defending champion, Klitschko had reigned supreme in the heavyweight division for fifteen years to 2015. This was the fight where Joshua would show the world…
Breakfast The old adage states that Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I agree, eating a good breakfast gives you the energy and nutrition to make the most of your day and should be able to power you through until lunchtime. Working varying shifts, often getting up at 2am, I have slowly sunk into some bad habits at breakfast time. A sugary cereal and quick coffee whilst reading the news and catching up on people’s lives on apps on…
Exploring the lessons I learned during a training run around Elton Reservoir
First Run of the Year It’s cold and dark and I’ve lost my car. I left it on the same car park that I always do but in the darkness that’s harder to find than I’d first imagined. It doesn’t help that the sign for the North and South car parks have been turned the same way. Momentarily disorientated, I stopped to try and work out a way back around the park to where I needed to be, the unlit…
Analysing my personal fitness goals through the SMART target framework.
A reflection on the Run For All Bury 10k which took place on the 18th September 2016.
From a luxurious two weeks training in foreign climes!
There’s an app for everything now. There are a wide range of fitness based applications which measure anything from your heartrate, to the number of steps you take, calories that you burn and even chocolate bars that you have earned. For a time, I enjoyed seeing the number of calories that I had torched or how many miles I had covered in a particular workout but the novelty has worn away. I am now much happier going into the gym or…
I found myself at a loose end on Thursday afternoon and since the good weather had extended into another day I decided to take my session to Holcombe Hill and attempt to run it’s rough terrain. It’s fair to say I underestimated the challenge and had to run-walk rather than run the entire route. The Challenge of my Holcolme Hill Run Running on cobbles and trail paths rather than tarmac was a very different challenge and my speed reflected…