4 weeks to go!

This time in 4 weeks I will be on my way to my first ever ATHX competition in London. Not gonna lie, I am a little nervous about it as as I've said before, its not my normal event type choice.

However, the training has forced me back to basics to relearn and develop some fundamental push and pull weight lifting techniques and I have thoroughly enjoyed training for it over the last few weeks.

The benefits of it will also boost my Spartan performance once the season starts in May. Its been especially good for me over the last few weeks, since weight training seems to be one of the only things that doesn't set of my recently developed hear palpitations (that is a whole other story for another day or another post).

The key to training is that it doesn't need to be exciting and adventurous.....the secret is repetition. Once you have something that works for you, keep doing it. Most people (including me over the years), fail when they try to mix it up and change the exercises for something exciting or the latest fad doing the rounds on Instagram.

This circuit for me covers lots of areas and I can feel the impact it has each time I do it. Yesterday, was 3 sets of the below circuit, which targets shoulders, lats, back and core, as well as forearm and grip strength using the strongman bar.

This will be my evening circuit today, but as I type this I can smell the beef in the slow cooker, permeating the smell throughout the house. I hope that my will power is strong enough to make me drag myself to the garage after I have had a Sunday dinner courtesy of my amazing wife, followed by a crumble from Janet, (who will undoubtedly tell me that I need to eat some more and that I have lost enough weight).