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  • Your thoughts: performance enhancing drugs

    Posted on Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at 19:03 in discussion topics

    Yes I know it’s another hoary old chestnut but there’s a reason why: it’s a fascinating, annoying, intriguing, frustrating, astonishing, awkward and curious topic. The issue of performance enhancing drugs has popped up again because of the Worl...

  • How competitive are you?

    Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 07:57 in discussion topics

    Are you competitive in your training? Join in the discussion!...

  • Specific vs general training

    Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 16:57 in discussion topics, common problems

    Specific vs general is a popular argument in fitness circles and can often get quite technical. But I think that for anyone who isn’t a professional athlete, it doesn’t matter terribly whether you train for something specific or for general fitne...

  • How to be a better version of yourself

    Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 17:19 in discussion topics, common problems

    It is a fact of life that some people are born with unusual physical beauty, in the same way that some people are born with a talent for writing or playing the violin. Someone else’s abilities on the violin have absolutely no bearing on yours, so w...

  • Are you self conscious?

    Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 17:16 in discussion topics, common problems

    Some of you may be really gung-ho about your training. Fit and proud, you revel in being the ‘weird one in the corner’ doing crazy stuff. You couldn’t give a toss what people think about kipping pull ups and you certainly don’t give a monkeys...