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Entries from September 30th, 2009

How to make a cheap sandbag

September 30th, 2009 5 Comments

After my article yesterday about how to make a cheap set of farmers’ bars, I thought I write today about how I went about making a sandbag.  I started thinking about sandbag training a while ago and even went so far as to order an army duffle bag online.  But, procrastination got the better of me and the [...]

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How to make cheap farmers’ bars

September 29th, 2009 2 Comments

OK, so this is a follow-up to my article last week about how to make farmers’ bars out of dumbbell handles.  The main problem with those bars is that they don’t hold a lot of weight.  The other problem is that they can swing around a bit, especially if you are turning a lot of [...]

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What to do if your shoulder hurts doing pull ups

September 28th, 2009 6 Comments

Relax, this may not be the end of the world.  Follow these steps for pain relief. Don’t necessarily rely on your doctor for sports-specific injury help My friends often ask me why I go to a physical therapist or a sports massage therapist rather than taking advantage of the NHS, which is free (I live [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 26 September to Friday 2 October

September 25th, 2009 Comments Off

This is the third week of workouts of a cycle of 6 weeks before I go on holiday.  I would normally only go for 3-4 weeks before a deload week.   However, given that all I’m going to do on holiday is sit on the beach, read Janny Wurts novels and drink cocktails, I’m making an [...]

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Introducing: farmers’ walks

September 24th, 2009 3 Comments

As I promised in my article yesterday about more interesting ways to do cardio, here is a brief guide to how to set up a pair of dumbbell handles to act as farmers’ bars for doing laps of the garden with in the summer… I have since had a go at making a pair of farmers’ bars that [...]

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