I haven’t blogged in a while, but to be quite honest, I don’t have much to blog about. One thing I’ve never fully realised until now is how “safe” weight lifting is – it’s not as death defying, bone crushing or as painful as other exercises. There aren’t new machines or forms of weight lifting introduced every session and the aim isn’t to push yourself to the point of breaking. I can only imagine how painful a barbell falling on your chest can be. Don’t get me wrong though – I’m enjoying the routine and habit aspect of it and for someone who loves routine and order, that’s a good thing. I also don’t have much
Category: men’s health
Hitting Back
The problem with life is, it’s dirty. Dishonourable. It’ll come out of nowhere, and it doesn’t care about the rules. Vicious, like it’s trying to put you in the ground and cover its tracks. Low blows, stabs in the back, these are everyday things. When you’re down, it’ll kick you, and again, in the head, for fun. The problem with life is, you know it’s coming for you, but you can’t get out the way and you never think you deserve it. Life knocks you down and the world counts you out and you wonder, why me. Before joining Men’s Health, I’d been at my last job almost two years before I realised I was really unhappy.
Does He Have What I Had?
A rose by any other name is still a you know what…as per Shakespeare The case of the month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. “Doctor Turek, thanks for talking with me. I’ve been married to John for 30 years and lately it seems like his sex drive which has been pretty even-steven is now much lower. Not only that, his erections don’t last very long and he’s grumpier now. He reminds me of the way I felt 10 years ago when I went through menopause. Do men have a menopause?” Great Question Well, to be honest, the answer is: “Yes, they kinda do.” It’s not called that, but the terms “andropause” or the “male climacteric” have been used to describe it. In
Breathing In
There’s not much to learn in boxing training. Except everything you already know. Seven weeks into the MH Staff Challenge, I’m beginning to understand how you can do something your whole life without ever realising you’re doing it wrong. Walking, eating, these are things I knew about long before boxing, things that now feel brand new. Drinking, breathing, these are familiar skills, made fresh. Swinging from the hips, stretching all the way over there, what’s different? Except everything. Boxing training has a way of taking simple things and making them really, really hard. Here, a push-up is something that tightens your core, strengthens your shoulders, so you stop falling sideways, so you stop dropping your arms. A sit-up is something that
How a Frankenpenis Helps Medicine
No, I’m not showing you a picture of a penis transplant! Here is a beautiful picture of South Africa’s landscape. First heart transplants and now penis transplants! Maybe it’s the ocean air, maybe the bucolic African terrain, or maybe it’s the hardy souls who live there, but South Africa has done it again. The first working interhuman penis transplant. Urination? Check. Sexual function? Check. A veritable functioning Frankenpenis. Big Cojones Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967. Beat out Texas and Stanford by a couple months. Now they’re at the leading edge of urology with this spectacular sequel. You might even say, noting utmost importance of this particular male organ, that it’s a breakthrough in brain surgery. Although it
Dumbo Unchained
“The elephant and the string, Franky – remember that.” “Umm, what?” Realising I clearly hadn’t heard the story, Ross (my trainer) came over and landed some metaphorical fitness wisdom on me. A guy went to an Indian village and saw an elephant attached to a wooden pole. Fair enough, right? The catch is what was used to harness this massive beast to the pole – a bit of string around its… ankle (Do elephants have ankles?). Well, around it’s leg. Obviously perplexed, the man asked his guide why the elephant doesn’t use just a fraction of its strength to break the string and leg it. The guide explained that from a very young age, metal cuffs and chains are used to restrain the calves.
2015 Staff Challenge: #TeamRIPT Week 07
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 class. I’m a bit knackered (some lingering aftershocks from Week 04, I guess), and it took me a while to get out of Neutral this morning. Fortunately, Neil – who was one of the coaches who did my pre-#MHStaffChallenge assessment; and who is one of my favourite RIPT coaches – had something special planned for the final section of the class. We’d done the heavy lifting, and we’d done the METCON (huge fun, as always)… and all that was left was the final burn. So out came the
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It’s All Edible
Before I began this MH Staff Challenge, I never really ate breakfast. Or lunch. Coffee got me out of the house, onto the train, into the office, just fine. More coffee got me through to lunchtime, even more got me through the afternoon. What kind of coffee, from where, this is what I thought about. What kind of grounds, how much water, how hot, with milk or without. This was my focus. This was food. You drink enough coffee, you start shaking. You start twitching, in your neck. In your brain. You go from one thought to another, back and forward, in a mad racing heartbeat, lights flickering on and off, talking fast and crazy like a paranoid schizophrenic. Seeing things. Imagining things, like this is good
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 intelligence. Working journalist. (You get the picture.) It really does sound like a bad joke, though… and at this morning’s RIPT class, I wasn’t the one laughing. During the METCON portion, we did a circuit of seven stations: battle rope / one-leg hurdles / weight plate frontal raise / lunge with rotation (medicine ball) / ab rollouts / crunches with bar / kettlebell swings (it’s all in the picture below). We did each station twice, for 20 seconds at a time, with a 10-second break in between. Now here’s the thing: usually I would spend those 10 seconds standing around, goofing off, taking a 45-
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