Showing posts with label flexibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flexibility. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 March 2024

That ‘Chaotic Month’ turned out to be 2 months.

›
Namman Muay Thai Oil   Right at the start of 2023 I explained I was going to attempt 4 tasks simultaneously : Improve flexibility using trad...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

January will be somewhat of a chaotic month.

›
January may traditionally be the quiet, broke month in which people obsess over fitness and money (and who says I won’t?) but it’s the perfe...
Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Lockdown Reading: Take 3. Results

›
Back at the end of August, while Oldham entered its localised lockdown, I decided to return to this absurd project- one I've tried a n...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Lockdown Reading: Take 3

›
In recent years I've undergone a number of attempts at the splits. I failed each time, of course, but most recently I made some pro...
Thursday, 20 August 2020

Lockdown Reading Take 2: Review

›
At the end of July, Oldham went into partial lockdown , again, after another spike in COVID-19 cases. I decided to go back to my pile o...
Friday, 31 July 2020

Lockdown Reading: Take 2

›
Well, the inevitable has happened and we've seen a spike in COVID-19 cases. That means a return to lockdown until... who knows. We...
Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Reading and Robb

›
I've blogged a few times about attempting the splits whilst reading books. As you do. It was a series of attempts to increase ...
Saturday, 2 July 2016

Doing the Splits with Peter F Hamilton: Result

›
Back on the 10 th May I set myself another reading and exercise challenge , this time to gain more flexibility than I've ever had ...
Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Doing the Splits with Peter F Hamilton

›
Over the last few years I've found 'novel' ways of reading and exercising, if you'll pardon the pun. It occurs to m...
Thursday, 30 October 2014

Doing the Splits with Arnold Schwarzenegger: Results

›
At the end of August I decided to test my flexibility by reading the largest book in my “to-read” pile whilst attempting the splits....
Thursday, 28 August 2014

Doing the Splits with Arnold Schwarzenegger

›
Earlier this month I spent some time practicing flexibility in my lower body. I did this whilst reading the shortest book in a huge pile of...
Saturday, 23 August 2014

Doing the Splits with James Bond

›
This month I decided to work on flexibility. I wanted to attempt the splits over the course of a few days, and whilst sat with my legs ou...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

Splits Month

›
I've just completed another project marrying exercise and literature . This time, I spent a month attempting the splits, whilst s...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

How Long Does it Take to Do the Splits?

›
Between 18 and 25 I trained in the 500-year-old noble martial art of Muay Thai , or Thai Boxing. For those that put in the time and effort,...