Starting Deadlifts
I started doing deadlifts in January 2014, and I’d never done one before. I watched some videos on Youtube and took myself off to a quiet training room in my gym to practise with some very light, pink...
View ArticleDeadlift Tips
Watching videos to teach you how to deadlift is great, but sometimes it helps if you have everything written down in checklist form. You can easily become overwhelmed. Here’s that checklist. These are...
View ArticleDeeper Squats
The coach at my Olympic Weightlifting club said that my squats were deep, but they could be deeper. I was flabbergasted because I always go past parallel, and I thought my squats were really deep! To...
View ArticleCombining Deadlifts And Squats With Olympic Weightlifting
My problem is that I want to do too many different things in the gym. I want to deadlift and squat, but I also want to improve my Olympic lifts. The Olympic lifts are basically deadlifts and squats...
View ArticleB&Q Improved Customer Service
I went to B&Q this morning before work to buy a light bulb. There weren’t many people about, as it was only 8.20 am, and all the self service checkouts were cordoned off. There was only one person...
View ArticleSupermarket Carrier Bag Charge
On the Tesco website, it says the following. The money raised from the 5p bag charge in the UK will be used to pay for a large number of local projects to improve green spaces in communities right...
View ArticleDeadlift PB
I hit a new pb in my deadlift last week: 120kg for 2 reps. Yehar! I was actually feeling pretty rough last week. Some weeks I feel super fit, some weeks I feel rough, and last week was a rough week....
View ArticleShoe Mad
I went shoe mad last month and bought a pair of weight lifting shoes and a pair of boxing boots. I was damned if I was going to throw money away on expensive Adidas Power Things, though (£80 was the...
View ArticleClean And Jerk Pointers
I had a good Olympic weightlifting session on Sunday. The coach told me my clean and jerks had improved. They couldn’t very well have got any worse! Also, I received some pointers that I need to bear...
View ArticleMosque Terror Attack – Police Response Time 1 Hour
Witness to the Finsbury Park terror attack on a mosque asks why the police esponse time was one hour. Ambulance response time was allegedly 45 minutes. Apparently, the driver was detained by police...
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