This week I feel broken. I've woken up shattered, hungrier than a horse and aching all over. Oohhhhh am I glad it's almost the weekend… There's also a huge sense of achievement though as 'testing week' has just come to an end. At my gym they programme a 12 week strength training schedule with a week of testing at the end. It isn't a competition and there's no rivalry. It's ...
Fitness update #12
It's been a while since the last fitness update back in June. It feels crazy that that was my one year update and before that fitness wasn't part of my life. No gym. No running. Didn't even own sportswear. No joke. How things have changed eh? If there's one thing I want to do with these posts it's to encourage anyone thinking about getting fitter to stop thinking and ...
Barbed wire, bogs and bruises
...just your average Saturday at Born Survivor. (Photo credits: Christian Houghton and Born Survivor) Last year if you'd asked me if I wanted to sign up to a 10km, military designed muddy obstacle course (for fun) - I would have laughed in your face and yelled HELL NO! Skip forward to September 2016 and I've just completed my second Born Survivor! If you're after a ...
Chop’d Salad bar opens in Manchester
Recently I was invited behind the scenes at Chop’d’s new Manchester store where they told me all about their concept and how they started out. I got to sample some of their awesome ingredients and they even let me loose in their kitchen. If you don't know about Chop’d, they started out as a stall on Leadenhall Market in 2004 and now have 12 stores across London. They've just ...
Update on carb-cycling
If you've been following the blog you'll know that over the summer I experimented with 'carb-cycling' in an attempt to get a flatter stomach and those ever elusive abs. I wrote a post to explain what carb-cycling was and promised an update once I'd finished. I always cringe at my own photos but I've put some photos at the end of this post so you can see how I've been ...