2025 was a fun year for me, an epic year, I dabbled with kettlebell juggling, guided again by Jared Thomas a master in the sport, started running again and began my foray into competitive mace swinging. I found my niche and it invigorated my competitive spirit. Competitive mace swinging Last...

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Warrior Timer uses a URL-based syntax to define your intervals. A timer that is simple and flexible enough that I could set it up mid-workout without fumbling through twelve menu options.

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I have wanted to do this event since I saw the footage from last year’s first outing. It really didn’t disappoint at all. I’ve been training for months and getting insider tips from last year’s king. In the end I got through to the 4th round (the small finale) and...

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Peter Attia’s concept of the Centenarian decathlon, an idea that aims to optimise your physical and mental experience in the last decade of your life, the so called marginal decade. The plan is to work backwards from a series of desired activities and train for them throughout the preceding decades....

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Another experiment to increase tendon and grip strength.

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This was the year that fun started sneaking back into my life and I no longer felt held back from physical exploits. I was swinging rope and mace and learning strange landmine university moves. It truly felt like the year the warrior started to wake up again. I’ve written previously...

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I’m approaching my mid-fifties, it’s an age where I’m thinking about my end of days, or at least my retirement days. We review our partner retirement planning spreadsheet on a 6 monthly basis, keen to make sure we’re on track and that I have enough set aside to fund my...

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I turned up at the competition venue for East London’s Strongest. I signed in, collected my t-shirt and then the anxiety started building. I looked around at the scattered weights and I began to doubt myself big time. I’d already told myself that it didn’t matter if I couldn’t do...

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Sciatica was an overwhelming feature of 2023. For many months I was struggling to get about due to severe numbness down both legs - from buttocks to the soles of my feet. It wasn’t particularly painful but significant discomfort meant walking was severly impaired, sometimes managing only a few hundred...

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I started the year on crutches so it feels somewhat of a success to reach the end of the year standing firmly on my own two feet. Apple Health confirms that my walking steadiness has indeed climbed throughout the year and I am now just OK. I thought I’d do...

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I broke my ankle at the very end of November when two large dogs running at full pelt, collided with each other and the back of my leg. I pirouetted and crumpled with a crack to my knee followed by another to my ankle. I thought it might be interesting...

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Latest experiment to increase my resilience by training and improving my grip strength.

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Since I broke my ankle late last year, I have been relying on my wrists a lot more than usual to support my daily activities and I have come to see them as my latest achilles heel in my resilience journey. They just aren’t strong enough for a day of...

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A couple of years ago a surgeon told me I needed a knee replacement but he wasn’t prepared to operate until I’d lost a shed load of weight. I never really felt convinced that my knee did need to go, perhaps I was just running scared but accepted that the...

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At 50m the air a scuba diver breathes, starts to slowly and painfully poison them. A single but very long breath can enable a freediver to sink a whopping 200 toxic metres. While freediving has its attractions, my extraordinarily buoyant body precludes me from this activity. This hasn’t stopped me...

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