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Primo session

This morning I did my most enjoyable (and one of the toughest) conditioning session yet. Here’s how it broke down. Bike 5 minsOvers and unders, leg swings 3×8Scap push ups, scap pull ups 2×8Rower 10x150mtrs with 30 sec recoveryStrength block 1:60kg bench press 30 secondsPush Ups 30 seconds1-2 punching 30 secondsRepeat for 10 minutesRower 10x150mtrs … Continue reading →

I'm a Busy Man Dammit!

Which I hate. Anyway apprently I’m “in the well” on boards.ie’s fitness forum. It’s this idea where one significant poster to the forum a week gets asked loads of questions. To my dismay, none of them have been about my magnificent facial hair, or carrying off thinning hairlines successfully. Paul was kind enough to ask … Continue reading →

Music time, it’s Monday! I often try to squeeze in some Nina Simone on the stereo in the gym. Some of these Emo kids need their horizons broadened.I just spent the weekend at my Strength and Conditioning coach’s seminar, and I was shocked and appalled to discover that there are about twenty 19 year olds … Continue reading →

Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful…

There was a time when snow was the best thing that could possibly happen to me. The schools would shut, it was open season to throw stuff at other people and you just didn’t care about getting cold. Now, the snow is a bloody hinderance. It stopped training altogether on Monday, we had to stop … Continue reading →

Not a lot of time but enough for today's music selection

Currently rockin the ipod dock in the gym is this little number by Mark Mothersbaugh, better known as one of the guys behind Devo. This is obviously a bit truncated but I love Bill Murray’s little dance. If you haven’t seen this movie you’re missing out.

New Tongue Biting Record Achieved

Yup I have a really inflamed tongue today thanks to biting it twice in the last 3 days. Biting my tongue, as in the idiom, is not something I’m known for so I didn’t do that. What I did do was actually physically bite my tongue. On Thursday when grappling with Shayn, I passed guard … Continue reading →

LOADS of video.

In the interest of making my blog look a little better and in response to some slagging in the gym about it, I’m going to make a very informative post today, full of video footage and lots of stuff like that Here’s stage one of last night’s beginner MMA, or MMA101 as we call it. … Continue reading →

The beginnings of a weekly tradition

I’m going to start putting up some Monday music to start the week off. I get lots of enquiries as to what songs I’m playing in the gym on my ipod (mostly in the form of groans) so I thought I’d share with the world.Blackalicious- Chemical Calasthenics I was going to post up that Mos … Continue reading →

The Present and the Future

Was asked a question at training today about what I reckon the future of MMA was. Would people no longer be “specialists”, preferring instead to be just good enough at everything to win fights? The short answer is no. I don’t think so. What I think is hard to put in one post but I’ll … Continue reading →

So you may have noticed…

… that I’ve started to tag my posts. Yup, I know, it smacks of organisation and order. Not something you’d normally associate with me but I was reading about Will’s efforts to organise his blog and it suddenly occurred to me that the 1,000 people (yup I know, but I think 900 of them are … Continue reading →