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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 01
So that’s my first week of RIPT done, dusted and dutifully… erm… dispatched. Here’s what I’ve learned. 1. Work deadlines are evil and will kill you. This week was both the first week of the...
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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 02
Since I started the #MHTeamFit #StaffChallenge #HashtagProject, I’ve had a lot of people asking me what I’m doing. The short answer is RIPT. But that’s not a great answer. RIPT – as explained here – is...
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There’s a reason why that image is so blurry. No, it’s not because my phone is broken and I’m using my daughter’s. It’s because that’s what the world looks like at 6.30am. It’s a motivation thing,...
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A Walk In The Woods
On Friday morning I joined Nikon South Africa at the media launch of their new Nikon D5500 camera. It was the kind of launch that makes people think I have the best job in the world: a stroll around...
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Endurance athletes call it “The Wall”. Endurance athletes with a sense of humour call it “Hitting the Bonk”. It’s when you’re training or competing, and your body suddenly runs out of fuel (glycogen...
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My dad used to have one of those old bumper sticker poster thingies up in his office. “You don’t have to be crazy to work here,” it said, “but it helps.” (Give the old guy a break: that stuff was funny...
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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 05
One of my favourite things about RIPT is the variety of the classes – and, by extension, the variety of the exercises. On any given day you could band stretches, bench presses, and partnered medicine...
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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 05B
Bangers and mash. Strawberries and cream. Bacon and eggs. Some things just go better together. Like (and – hoo, boy! – this intro is hard to digest) regular exercise and healthy eating. Forget the...
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2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 06
“Active Rest”. It sounds like a contradictions in terms… you know, like the ones language professors make unfunny jokes about. Pretty ugly. Independent colony. Liquid ice. Government planning. Military...
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I’ve spoken before about some of my favourite RIPT exercises. This morning, I added a new one to my list. Now you need to know that I was basically a walking zombie for the first half-hour of today’s...
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Shave The Date
Last week I flew across the country for a shave. It was a barbershop shave, done by a real barber, in a makeshift barber’s chair at Katy’s Palace in Kramerville. There was a posse of celebs in...
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Duane Vermeulen: Impact Player
Image Credit: Garreth Barclay No one will have a bigger say on who lifts the Rugby World Cup than the leading teams’ supremely athletic loose forwards. We unlock the secrets of three of the best, with...
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