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An Explosive Swim
Unfortunately last nights training session didn’t go too well. I decided to join the Ystwyth CC Chain Gang, so turned up at Rhydepennau at the prescribed time, met up without about 30 other cyclists...
View ArticleTime for a MAF Test
Hot on the heels of my FTP Test on the bike on Monday, it was time to monitor progress (or lack of) in my running by performing a MAF Test. MAF, a term coined by Dr. Phil Maffetone stands for Maximum...
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Ramp Test and DXA Scan
As regular readers of this weblog will know, I often volunteer as a participant in various studies at the Sports and Exercise Department at Aberystwyth University. Most of these require a fair bit of...
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Pushing my Limits
I’m doing my best to stick to my new plan of increasing my training a little as the race season gets ever closer. As well as my large scale annual periodisation in which I’m trying something new, I...
View ArticleWeight Trend – Withings WS-50
Ooh, a new ‘Weight Trend’ screen has suddenly appeared on our Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyser Scales. Ok, it’s not ground breaking news but it’s still quite nice to get an update to a pair of scales...
View ArticleUltimate Turbo Trainer Set Up, Gadgets, Software and Workflow
I’m quite pleased with my turbo trainer set up, the software I use with it, the ‘workflow’ I have to record everything and the gadgets that I use to make this happen. I’ve mentioned many of them here...
View ArticleWeblog as Therapy
This weblog is many things. It’s the starting point for our amazing weblog book. Hopefully its’s entertaining, interesting, informative and useful. Some posts are fun, some are serious. It covers an...
View ArticleGarmin Fenix 3 v6.50 – New Features for Free
I know it’s only a watch, but I love my Garmin Fenix 3, and even more so now that I have a Fenix 3 v6.50 . It looks good, it does pretty much everything I want it to, it has more features than you can...
View ArticleGet Rewarded when you Exercise
Exercise Rewards As far as I’m concerned, exercise of almost any form is already fairly rewarding. It’s good for your health, it’s good for your general wellbeing, it makes you look and feel good, it...
View ArticleFitness Rewards
As a quick follow up to my recent ‘Get Rewarded When you Exercise‘ post I thought I’d let you know that the Bounts scheme has been working well for me. I’ve been gradually amassing points and rather...
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