Author: martinjamesphd
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Iron Don’t Pump Itself
I’m snatching opportunities every time I get to put in a workout. Time is never on my side so I have to improvise, striking a balance between anaerobic (for muscle growth) and aerobic (to get my heart rate up). If nothing else it makes me feel much better about myself, life and the given day.
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Eygpt: Giza & Cairo
I managed to snatch a few days in this astonishing place – a good while before things flared up again in Israel and Gaza. The pyramids hardly lack for hype but they live up to it, exceed it even. Gaza and Cairo are hot and fast moving places. They are well equipped to exhaust haggle…
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A crazy-busy 3 days rounded off with a show
It’s not a show that anyone under 40 would remember and it’s their loss. Drop the Dead Donkey was a forerunner to the now omnipresent “mock the news” format. Everything that’s come after follows in its footsteps… So this show is a new stage production, 30 years on from the original TV run. It was…
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A fine night at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham
If it’s good enough for Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp it’s good enough for me and the fine people of Birmingham Business School. The Grand Ballroom has a fine reputation and I can see why – it’s spectacular. It was a night for our students and rightly, they were the stars of the show.
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Weekend workout #2
Even though I ached a bit from the day before, I pressed on and did what I could for 45 minutes. Chest and shoulders were the main focus. I alternated between resistance moves and 1-minute HIIT sets to get the heart pumping. Every. Little. Counts.
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Weekend Workout
Strategy and planning is out the window, I just grab the opportunity to workout when they come around. On this occasion I put in 3 rounds on the bag before a circuit of weights and HIIT full body moves.
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Another workout
At this point I have lost track of my workouts this year, as there’s been a few since the last one I uploaded. I do not feel like I am making progress to be honest. I am going sideways at best because my diet has been pretty poor. That’s been out of my control in…
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Workout #6
It feels milder, there were moments in this session when I was down to one layer on top. I felt powerful and energetic, and yet mildly depressed at how tubby I look in the video. I keep reminding myself that “the camera adds 10lbs”. Seems more like 20 here… 😦
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Workout #5 (2024)
I didn’t get around to uploading anything from workout #4 but I squeezed in workout #5 on a Sunday, giving me plenty of time to park evidence online. This has been my most relaxed weekend of the year so far. No doubt a calm before the next storm!
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Workout #3 of 2024
Is this momentum? It’s too early to say but there’s no harm in hoping. It’s heartbreaking how much strength I have lost since I was last in great shape a few years ago. It’s been a defining feature of my 30s and 40s, getting is great shape only to give it up for reasons beyond…
Dr Martin James 