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Your ideal gym?

» by gubernatrix January 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am » Comments (23)

I’d love to have a gym of my own one day. I don’t like training by myself all the time, so even if I had a home gym I’d have to invite people round to use it.
There are many aspects of a gym that affect the training experience. There is the space, equipment, décor, people, […]



Ring training: getting started

» by gubernatrix January 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm » Comments (19)

You don’t have to be able to do muscle-ups and front levers to benefit from training with rings. They make even old favourites like push-ups and dips more challenging because you have to work to stabilise them. You’ll probably be surprised at how much more difficult an exercise can be on the rings – I […]



What’s in your gym bag?

» by gubernatrix November 10th, 2007 at 12:55 am » Comments (4)

This post was inspired by a conversation on another site about how much stuff people have to carry around with them in the gym. I flout all modern gym health & safety rules by taking my little rucksack around with me – there’s no way I’m going to carry this stuff around individually. There’s a […]



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