I’ve written before about how to make a cheap sandbag and I followed that up with a post about training with sandbags. If you’ve been bitten by the bug that gets some of us sometimes and feel the need to hoist a heavy weight without the safety and predictability of a barbell, then check out these [...]
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Training with sandbags
November 30th, 2009 5 Comments
Last week, I wrote about the difficulty of training outside in winter and how the weather and the long nights make finding the motivation challenging. I’ve decided to persevere, though, and try to spend at least one workout per week using sandbags. Why sandbags? Sandbags are a good training tool for forcing your body to [...]
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Training outside in winter
November 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
The summer in the UK is great for training outside. The winter is less so. During the summer, I spent lots of time doing various projects outdoors. I don’t have a lot of garden but what little I do have I put to good use! What I did last summer Here are a few articles [...]
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More interesting ways to do cardio
September 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
Only a week has gone by since I started my new cardio regime in the hope of shedding a couple of pounds before my beach holiday in October and… I am already bored of the routine that I started. Oh, well. Anyway, here are some more ideas I have come across in my endless search for [...]
Tags: Bike Intervals · Cardio · Complexes · farmers' walks · hill sprints · Mike Mahler · sandbags · Stair Climbing
