Finally got round to getting to the Shotokan Karate club in Sheffield (http://www.shimeijurasan.com/) that started a year or 2 back!
For a couple of years I haven't been training at all, before that I was practising for maybe 2 years, nice to get back to it.
Quite a formal class compared to the last club I was at, but it didn't feel like it was forced. Some clubs the formal bowing etc all feels a bit artificial.
So it's a "watch this space" to see if I manage to stick at it when term time Judo gets back to full swing.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Power plate?
At the gym last night doing my thing and as ever people seem to be queueing up to use the Powerplate machine (something like: http://uk.powerplate.com/en/).
This is the latest fad in gym equipment it seems.... sit on a machine that vibrates a lot. That's it. Or so it seems.
All around the machine are posters about how it improves, strength, fitness, weighloss, circulation and well, everything really. Seems to me more like one of the electronic belt things that promise to give you a flat stomach in a week or something equally ridiculous.
Now on this machine people are contorting themselves into all sorts of amusing positions, doing situps on the machine, even sitting on the florr with the back to the machine seems to be a workout apparently.
I think the manufacturers of gym equipment just get together every now and then to plot how they can make the most unlikely piece of gym equipment they can and how they can make gym users look as daft as possible!
Weight loss progress, back down to 96Kg. One of guys in Judo club who was well over 100Kg when he started with us is now down to 91Kg, in the same time I've lost maybe 4 Kg.... need to work harder at the weight loss!
This is the latest fad in gym equipment it seems.... sit on a machine that vibrates a lot. That's it. Or so it seems.
All around the machine are posters about how it improves, strength, fitness, weighloss, circulation and well, everything really. Seems to me more like one of the electronic belt things that promise to give you a flat stomach in a week or something equally ridiculous.
Now on this machine people are contorting themselves into all sorts of amusing positions, doing situps on the machine, even sitting on the florr with the back to the machine seems to be a workout apparently.
I think the manufacturers of gym equipment just get together every now and then to plot how they can make the most unlikely piece of gym equipment they can and how they can make gym users look as daft as possible!
Weight loss progress, back down to 96Kg. One of guys in Judo club who was well over 100Kg when he started with us is now down to 91Kg, in the same time I've lost maybe 4 Kg.... need to work harder at the weight loss!
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