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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 →

My gym is in someone else's hands tonight

What will I do? I reckon at about 8pm tonight I’ll want to ring and see if everything is okay. Did Paddy get in the door alright? Is everyone taking their shoes off on the mats? Will someone get injurred? Will he know to turn off the lights? The gym is my baby and tonight, … Continue reading →

Heard on The Premiership tonight:“Oh poor clearance by Cech. He deserves to be punished!”Interesting insight into one commentator’s secret life. Today was the last day of serious training and sparring. It was a good session, but I watched it with my eyes half shut half expecting to see someone turn their ankle or twist a … Continue reading →

Last interval on the rower here. Grant calls me bald, old and fat. I think from this video we can verify the first of those things… However I disagree with the old and fat thing. Santa just has to bring me one of these heart rate monitors, here’s the HRM data from yesterday’s session. The … Continue reading →

First Day Blues

Well, actually, not so blue. First session with Will this morning, I’m sure Heffernan will put up my scores and reps soon enough but basically it was tough, really tough but enjoyable. I started this morning at 7am cleaning my house for a viewing to see if someone wants to buy it. You can’t make … Continue reading →

Update on the fighters, it's been a while

Without revealing too much, here’s an update on the progress of the guys who are going to be fighting in just 17 days. Strength: As I’ve mentioned before, I put most of the guys through a prehab phase of strengthening and flexibility for about 5 weeks, and then moved the training up a notch in … Continue reading →

Strengths (not many) and Weaknesses (many)

It ain’t easy being green, that great philosopher Kermit once said. And right now I feel pretty green. Had some strength and conditioning test with Will on Saturday, and I’d officially like to say that he’s a prick. Luckily, I’m a prick, so I can see where he’s coming from. The results were pathetic bar … Continue reading →

I think when this whole fight night thing has blown over, I’m going to take a large holiday and get a crack cocaine habit. It’s the only thing for it. Lots to do, not a lot of time to do it in. Managing fighters, checking weights, getting weight down, getting cardio up, micromanagement of the … Continue reading →

What's the name of that piece of music?

Is it flight of the Bumblebee? You know it, it’s usually played when someone is doing something very quickly in gardening or home improvement shows. It goes diddlediddlediddlediddlediddlediddlediddlediddle very quickly… Aaaaaanyway, that’s what I feel the soundtrack to the last couple of days of my life should be. Some personal stuff I’ve had to deal … Continue reading →

The rehab

There was this lad I went to college with during a brief period of insanity where I thought I could make some kind of career of a technical persuasion. He was short, sort of awkward, missing a couple of teeth through, I think, some kind of moshing incident in a metal bar, an affliction that … Continue reading →