CrossFit
Move- Lift- Work is on Saturday 10 October, here, in our gym. Three events — Move is the engine piece, Lift is the lift, Work is the CrossFit workout. Individual entries. Sign up on WodBoard, and entries close on 21 September.
beginners
You've been meaning to sort this out since June. There are several options within a short drive, the websites all look similar, and you've read them all twice without getting closer to a decision.
Active Ageing
What falls with age is your rate of recovery, not your capacity to work hard.
Movement
Front squat, halfway through the set. The elbows come down, the bar rolls forward onto your fingers, and the next thing you know you're squatting like a pooping dog. Everybody has had this. It's usually blamed on wrist mobility, and that's often not the full picture.
Nutrition
The headlines have been consistent for a couple of years now and the shopping is more confusing than it was. Ultra-processed food is bad. But. Wholemeal bread is ultra-processed. So is the protein bar in your gym bag, and so, on most classifications, is a supermarket hummus.
Support Systems
You've been training a few months, it's going well, and it seems obvious that the person you live with should come too.
Movement
You hang off the bar, the legs come up to about hip height, and stop. It feels like your abs have run out. So you go home and do sit-ups, and next week the same thing happens.
Training
Ask someone whether they're fitter than they were in March and watch what happens. They think about how they feel. And how they feel is mostly a function of how they slept, what's happening at work, and whether last night's session went well. Or often they'll look at the number o
Movement
Wednesday's session had sixty walking lunges in it. Thursday you feel fine. Friday you're going down the stairs at Amersham station sideways, hanging on to the handrail.
Nutrition
Four o'clock, and you want something sweet and a coffee. You're not hungry. You're flat.
Support Systems
An app costs about a tenth of what coaching costs and it will give you a programme that's better written than most of what people do on their own. I'd rather someone trained off an app than wandered around a gym for a year. But be clear about what it can and can't do.
Movement
Watch someone put a sock on. Some stand there and do it. Others sit down on the bed or reach for the wall, and have stopped noticing that they do.