Workout: Saturday Primal Boot Camp

A beautiful windy morning, felt great to be outdoors!

Warmup: 

• 1km jog 

Workout: (combinations of) --> 

• 4 x 100m sprint & 100m walk recovery
• Air Squat and Jump Squats drills
• Step Vault, Speed Vault & Speed Vault Progressions (using a park bench)
• Dead-Hang Tree Pull-Ups using underhand, overhand and alternate grips
• Tree Muscle Ups/Climbing
• Park Bench balance drills
• Walking on low rails
• Precision Jumps

 Finisher:

• 150m bear crawl

Workout: Tabata Thursday IV

Workout: Tabata Thursday IV

Warmup:

• 10 minutes moderate row/run/bike
• Fitness Explorer Warmup

Workout: 

Tabata Intervals (21 minutes including rest periods)

• 20s 1 arm KB Swing**, 10s Rest - (repeat for 8 rounds).
• rest - 60s
• 20s Fork Lift Truck, 10s rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 60s
• 20s All Out Sprint or Drivers, 10s rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 60s
• 20s Double Unders , 10s rest - (repeat for 8 rounds)
• rest - 2m

* The Tabata protocol requires maximum effort for 20 seconds and then 10 seconds recovery.

** KB = 20kg Kettlebell - male, 12kg - female

Finisher: 

• 100 Floor Wipers (use a plate, kettlebell or barbell)

Obesity: Ambulances Are Too Small in The UK!

Obesity: Ambulances Are Too Small For Many in The UK!

Some people believe reporting on obesity is scaremongering.  Unfortunately it is just a fact of life in modern Britain.  

It is directly related to an unhealthy lifestyle, ours is modelled much more on the USA than the rest of mainland Europe which is one explanation for obesity levels averaging 14% in mainland Europe rather than the 25% obesity levels we have here.   

"The fact is patients are getting larger and larger and ambulances need to be able to respond immediately to what could be life-threatening situations," Jo Webber, director of Britain's Ambulance Service Network, told the BBC."

Nigel Wells, an ambulance operations manager said to the BBC: "It is all about safety for our patients and safety for our crews. We have got a greater number of patients who are larger in size. A few years ago - probably only 10 years ago - your average patient was 12 to 13 stone, now that's probably 17 to 18 stone. And we quite regularly see patients around 30 stone in weight and even bigger than that."

12-13 Stone (76-82kg / 168-182lbs)

17-18 Stone (102-114kg / 238-252lbs)

30 Stone (190kg / 420lbs)

Read more in these news links below: --> 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12355146 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12287880

http://www.thefitnessexplorer.com/home/2010/9/26/news-an-obesity-epidemic-globesity.html

60 Second Interview: Art De Vany (Evolutionary Fitness)

 60 Second Interview: Art De Vany (Evolutionary Fitness)

Who are you?

Art De Vany.  A retired professor, blogger, and originator of Evolutionary Fitness.  Author of 'The New Evolution Diet'

What is fitness to you?

High physiological capacity to do what I want and to move through life effortlessly and without fear.

What are your goals?

To live well and love my wife and children. I like helping others as well, but they have to carry their load and make their own choices.

What is one of your main concerns in relation to public health?

People seem to take too little interest or responsibility for their own health; the medical system tends to make people patients rather than capable individuals who make their own choices.

What is your favourite meal?
 

A big vegetable salad with smoked salmon.

What is your favourite exercise/activity?
 

Tennis, easy walking with no rush or intention to "burn calories". Pulling my Range Rover and sprinting.

What is your least favourite exercise/activity?

Sitting; it is its own metabolic mode that stops your metabolism from using fat as fuel. 

Blog/Website: 
 

www.arthurdevany.com