Wheelchair Bodybuilding

I just wanted to point towards Adelfo Cerame a bodybuilder with a disability. 

I've been reading about him and following his contest prep for a while via the prolific Suppversity blog (I have no idea how Prof Andro has the time to prepare posts of the depth that he achieves almost every day, he is amazing)

Adelfo is inspirational. 

Highland Fling

Lots of runners were doing a 54 mile ultra in the West of Scotland yesterday.  John Kynaston has a great account of the race on his blog:

Hoka Highland Fling Race report

slow muscle up from L sit

the slow muscle up from  an L sit starting at 0:52 is pretty impressive!

Survival of the fittest....and that paleo guy

Back last summer sometime I was contacted by the editor of an on-line magazine Interesting Times who asked me to write something for him.  At the time I was busy with work and couldn't put the time into writing.  Plus I didn't think I had what he was looking for.....but I knew a man who did!  I pointed him towards Jamie Scott - New Zealand's That Paleo Guy - and sue enough Jamie wrote a superb piece detailing how his training, diet and lifestyle had enabled him to survive the Christchurch earthquakes of last year.

I'd just about forgotten about the piece but I got an email today with a link to download the magazine.

I have not read the rest of it, but Jamie's piece  - Survival of the Fittest …and most skillful? - is brilliant.  Check it out!

An awesome ride

This is just a mind blow

Some awesomeness

90 degree pushups

Like, er ...... wow.



This guy is amazing.  But of course we knew that.

Playing in the parks of London

Some more inspiration

I saw this on Ross's Blog but it is worthy of more exposure.  Alison McWeeny is amazing  (more here):

New world record for the plank

This is absolutely mind blowing.

While browsing around looking for images of the plank for an ebook I am working on, I came across this piece of news: a 54 year old man has just set a world record for the plank.  The staggering thing is the length of time that he held the plank:  1 hour, 20 minutes and 5.01 seconds.

That is almost unbelievable - I think I am doing well when I get 3 minutes!

George Hood broke the Guinness World Record on December 3 for the "Longest time in an abdominal plank position," clocking in at 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 5.01 seconds. The record-breaking took place at Eggsperience Pancakes and Cafe in Naperville, where owner John Sakoufakis created a special venue for Hood.

  The full story is here: George Hood breaks Guinness record for plank

I liked his comment:

“I wanted to raise awareness with regard to the benefits of core strength, for one’s personal fitness and overall health,” said Hood, a personal trainer and former Marine. “I see so many people who are overweight, have bad posture and can’t walk from point A to point B. It all comes back to one’s core, and this particular exercise is the best one out there.”

and also that the work only began after 50 minutes!

“Once I broke the record (at 50 minutes), the work began,” Hood said. “When we got to an hour and 12 (minutes), I was ready to call it, but that crew guided me through one minute at a time. They were the only three people in my head and in my ear.”

  John Sifferman - now it is your turn!