Saw this Youtube clip of the 2011 World Speed Climbing Championships in Arco and had to share it!
Absolutely unbelievable!
Enjoy…
Amazing Speed Climbing!
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GOrun trainers from Skechers
At the end of last year I was asked by Skechers UK (@SKECHERS_UK) to trial and review a pair of their new range of trainers, the GOrun.
The design of the shoe naturally encourages you to run with a mid foot strike, which helps to reduce impact throughout the joints, especially the knee, but also has the effect of shortening your stride. Now where most people think that would mean that they will actually end up running slower, where in fact you naturally increase your cadence to compensate.
I’ve been getting on great with them, even straight from the box, which I think was the biggest surprise.
The photos above were taken in Central Park, which is where they had their first real outing.
So, if you want to run more efficiently, with less chance of injury and with an extremely light, but still very supportive shoe (I weigh 83 kg), then you should give them a try.
They worked for Meb Keflezighi who won the Men’s Olympic Marathon trials in Houston less than two weeks ago with a time of 2:09:07!
Men’s Running
During last summer I did a cover shoot for Men’s Running for a winter edition of Men’s Running.
The shoot coincided with a similar shoot with my good friend and colleague Sean Lerwill, which made for a lot of banter and at times a little healthy competition….
It was a fun day if not ridiculously hot running in winter kit in a park in London!
Solo Atlantic Row
Towards the end of last year one of my clients, Tommy Tippetts, wanted to raise more funds for the charity MIND and as he was in the last stages of training to row the Atlantic solo, thought that it would be a great idea to set himself up with a couple of rowers in Victoria Station and row for a straight 24 hour period.
Victoria Station sees a wide variety of people especially as the crowd turns from more commuter based to those on their way home during the early hours after a fun night out, so as you can imagine the response and interest was very mixed to say the least.
Tommy’s friends and family were able to join him for an hour at a time to keep him company and in some cases to set personal challenges for the furthest distance rowed.
Tommy is rowing the Atlantic as I type this and is aiming to be the youngest person to have done so solo. Good luck Tommy and well done for raising so much money for MIND and for having the strength of character to follow through on such an immense undertaking.
To follow Tommy on his journey or to make a donation, have a look at his website or follow him on Twitter
Febreze Experiment
Back in October of last year I was fortunate to be asked to be involved with a Febreze Experiment in Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford, hosted by Stephen Mulhern.
A willing volunteer, Adam, lived in a perspex box for four days and had to experience various activities that would inevitably make him sweaty or make his room extremely smelly! I spent (endured!) about 45 minutes in the room with young Adam, whilst I took him for a short, but sharp training session using nothing, but his bodyweight and a few pieces of the furniture that he had in the room.
It was a very warm room to start with, so it wasn’t long before Adam was sweating buckets loads and adding to the room’s already existing strange aromas.
Watch the video of Adam on day 3 and you may even see a small part of the session that he did with me -Febreze Experiment Day 3
My new blog!!
Hi everyone,
This is my new blog where I’ll be passing on nuggets of personal training, health and lifestyle and adventurous pursuits advice and information (well pretty much anything that I find interesting!). If you have any particular questions or topics that you would like answered or covered, let me know and I’ll do my best to include them.
That’s it for now as I’m about to take a group out into the park for a fun session, which will guarantee to bring them back filthy, smiling and having worked up a good sweat… Why not come and join me!?
Jon