Vegan recipes and workout inspiration
We just got a dog here in the family, which is great! It takes some time though so the preparations for everything has to be pushed down to second place. We adopted the dog from a rescue centre, and she's around 6-7 months old and hasn't lived in a house
Going for 55K: Week 14
This week the government decided to prematurely close all schools and prolong the Chinese New Year Holiday due to a rather serious outbreak of the flu. This kind of threw my planned training off track and I had to do some ad-hoc changes. Now I have a 7-ye
Going for 55K: Week 13
Sometimes it's hard to really go all gung-ho at the gym. Maybe you meet a friend, maybe you read a text message on your phone, or maybe (as in my case) you're having difficulties knowing how long a minute is without looking at a clock. This is all good, w
How to make your workouts more intense
Last week I told you that I wanted to do more running but keeping the amount of strength training, and to be able to do that I would try to do strength and be running at the same day this week as an experiment. Now, training for an ultramarathon was never
Going for 55K: Week 12
This week I felt almost shamefully fresh. It could be due to the fact that the damp cold has let its grip go off Hong Kong and it's slowly getting warmer again. The humidity when it's cold is just piercing you straight through to the bone marrow, making y
Going for 55K: Week 10
You all know the feeling, the tangling in the back of your throat, your nose is clogging up. The common cold has gotten its first grip on you and you know that it is only a matter of time before you will be waist deep in napkins and curse you were ever bo
5 Foods That Help You Beat The Common Cold
When you say that you eat fat, most of you, myself included, think about hamburgers, butter, cake, French fries or other foods that are considered to be unhealthy or not very good for you to eat. It’s time to change that view you have on fat! Fat can
Why you need to eat fat and fatty acids
The human has a way of finding ways to improve the efficiency of different daily tasks. The language and written word are no different. If you have been hanging around different forums on the Internet or been overhearing someone at the gym, or why not tak
Workout acronyms and commonly used terms
When summer vacation was over I decided to try out intermittent fasting (sometimes shortened to IF). For those of you who aren’t familiar with what intermittent fasting is, it’s basically that you fast during the main part of the day and have an eatin
Intermittent Fasting – My take
First thing that comes to mind is of course Shredder, the villain from the mutated turtle’s franchise, how cool is he? I remember when I was young trying to beat him on my 8-bit Nintendo. Anyways, that’s not why you’re here. You’re here to shred s
Shredder Workout Routine