Now i'm 34

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.  Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.  People grow old by deserting their ideals.  You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

General Douglas McArthur

800m run, 50 burpees
800m run, 50 lunges
800m run, 50 pushups
800m run, 50 squats
800m run, 2 min plank hold
800m run 50 box jumps

time 41:05

beautiful crisp morning for a run. Needed it too after a few beers and a late night. :-)

Birthday Run

5k run around the pond this morning. 24:36

getting faster.

then 100 situps.

There is a great new blog thats been up or just over a week now. called mobility WOD. Really good for stretching and working those stiff/tight areas.

http://mobilitywod.blogspot.com/

30-8-2010- 5km run

5km run this morning around the pond in town. I've never beena particularly good or fast runner but I should do more andI think Im getting better at it.

time 25:30

Around the pond

Sunday 29th August
So after 2 days of travelling, I need to do something. Jetlag is great for early morning training sessions. You are already awake.

Across the road from where Im staying, there is a pond with a fountain and a walking track around it. There are also some nice grassy areas. Perfect. The track is 800 metres around. So here was the workout.

For time

800m run
100 squats
400m run
100 walking lunges
400m run

80 squats

400m run

80 walking lunges

400m run

60 squats

400m run

60 walking lunges

400m run

40 squats

400m run

40 walking lunges

400m run

20 squats

400m run

20 walking lunges

400m run

time: 43:04

finisher : 200 situps - 4:25

long working days

After a long day of work and not being able to train at the CF adelaide gym, I got home and did this little number on the 26 August.

100 squats
50 pushups
50 lunges
50 vups

80 squats
40 pushups
40 lunges
40 vups

60 squats
30 pushups
30 lunges
30 vups

40 squats
20 pushups
20 lunges
20 vups

20 squats
10 pushups
10 lunges
10 vups

time - about 30 mins. forgot to time it.  

FRIDAY 27th Aug

After this workout on the thursday night . I did the the CFAD WOD on friday morning. - Snatch. 3 rep max 55kg. 

Then i got on a plane to Europe for 24 hours. My legs hurt. 

First post

Well here it is, the first post of my training blog. I've kept a travel/ climbing blog over the last 18 months and had fun doing it. It has been viewed over 2700 times so far.

I've always been active, surfing, climbing, cycling, yoga,  tennis, swimming and various other stuff. About 18 months ago, I started training Crossfit. It is pretty fair to say that Crossfit has changed my life. It has added new dimensions to my training, introduced me to a whole new group of friends and given me a new realm of fitness. I usually train at Crossfit Adelaide with trainer Ben Norman but sometimes make up my own workouts or find workouts from other Crossfit affiliates or the like.

My main goals of training are to be fit healthy and strong enough to do the things I like to do like climbing surfing or anything that I feel like trying. Being fit and eating healthy food makes me feel better and work more efficiently. I do regular climbing and mountaineering trips to the mountains of the world and need to be super strong and fit for those excursions so that gives me huge motivation to train hard.

I intend to update this blog regularly with my daily workouts, general diet ideas and how strict I manage to be. I also have a liking for inspirational quotes which I'll post as well.

Enjoy and feel free to post comments etc.