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At the moment I'm recovering exceptionally well. I'm living of prepared meals of basically protein, veggies & rice + 9 Recov Tablets spread out throughout the day.  Last week I did isolation work at the gym on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. Thursday I tackled the 1000 steps with my team mate Lee - struggled a little with the heart rate as it hasn't gone that high since hospital... but I completed it & didn't pull up sore!  On Saturday I competed intervals on the death bike (AirDyne) & my stomach & body felt strong.  Today I went to Hammerhouse Gym with my coach Kyle & his bestie (bodybuilder) Adam.  We had a nice long bro sesh & I managed to knock out 75kg for 3 on the bench press without any pain, along with a lot of isolation upper body work & large sets of leg work.  I'm feeling great! I think a mix of moving & being smart about what I do as well as the Recov is really helping me heal & I'm hoping I...

My name is Dennis Kohlruss, I am 28 years old 194cm tall and my body-weight is around 165 kilos. I am born and raised in Germany, the name of my hometown is Rastatt. I am a professional strongman. in this little blog, I will tell you a little bit about my carrier, my you tube channel and my gym. First it’s a pleasure for me to being a part of the NDO Team, for me its very imported to be around real athletes who do competitions and try to bring the best out of themselves in every situation in their life. Sorry my friends for my bad English, I only have my 4 years’ school English :-) Let’s talk about my carrier, I started strongman in 2012, I had my first national competition in Germany and got 6th place so I licked blood and became better and better BUT always with a plan in my head, grow slow but steady, listen to your body and don’t push it too far to fast! I did no power-lifting  or other strength sports b efore , only a little bit (disco pumping) that’s a synonym ...

Mother, University research assistant and tutor, PhD student and Crossfit athlete. I often get asked how I manage to "do it all" so I thought I would provide a little insight into how and why I do what I do, and really it all boils down to four key things. 1. Goals From as young as I can remember, I have always been one to dream big and my one dream right from when I was a little girl was to one day be a "world champion". I wasn't quite sure what that would be in at the time, but I dreamt I would one day be the world's best in whatever sport I was in. Since then, I have set myself goals in all of my athletic endeavours which at first, are usually seemingly beyond my reach. But it's that very unattainableness that excites me and motivates me to always do my best and drives me to achieve more than before. I have a list a thousand pages long, but my main goal for 2015 was to qualify for the Reebok Crossfit Games Regional competition (afte...

The following is the transcript of a text conversation I had in the warm up room at the 2015 IPF World Bench Press Championships. Sometimes the hardest thing is just waiting to lift. By this stage I had weighed in and was sitting around until the 120kg class finished their session. The warm up room was a one minute walk from the on deck area but the energy in the room was still electric. Training to stay calm and not burn up all my energy with nerves was hard to do so I welcomed the message from back home. I was talking to Rob Murrell, an Australian 120kg powerlifter and owner of Barbarian Strength and Conditioning in Rockingham, WA. In this contest prep I had done all my heaviest sessions in his gym.   Rob Murrell Time to go to work bud. This is your bread and butter. Rob Murrell Warm ups soon? Nathan Baxter When the 120s are done. Rob Murrell Sweet. Feeling good buddy. Nathan Baxter Nerves are the worst waiting like this. Warm ups will help. Get the shirt on and feel ...

I woke up this morning in a good mood because #coach_kyle said I'm allowed to train today. I started work at 5.30am, trained a few clients, went back home... had a recovery nap, trained a few more clients...12 noon was training time! Kyle hooked me up with a killer isolation training program, it looked brutal on paper & it lived up to its expectation & was brutal in reality.  The whole session took 1.5 hours & my only rest was 30 seconds between sets. So it was high intensity isolation weight lifting... love it! I did approximately 217897325 reps adjusting the weight constantly (lots of drop sets) on the leg extension & leg curl. Kick backs, dumbbell shoulder press, face pulls, lat pull downs, 45 degree lat pulldowns, incline dumbbell fly's were also part of the program. My body is pumped! My muscles are filled out again (I didn't lose my gains!), I feel lactic like I just did a massive endurance CrossFit workout, my quads & shoulders are back, ...

For the past year, I've been training anywhere from 2.5 hours - 4 hours 6 days a week in the CrossFit Comp group at Moorabbin. It has become my whole world really. I've ditched the weekend drinks, I've ditched late nights & processed foods (unless it's cheat day ;) ) & I've prioritised my training before ANYTHING.  I can 100% call myself a very disciplined person. There's a small group of us at Moorabbin who have put our lives on hold to give everything we have to becoming the BEST team we can possibly be to make it to Regionals this coming May.  Every February, the CrossFit Open starts. It runs for 5 weeks & every Friday a new workout gets announced - so it's all very secret until then. You can't plan or prepare for it... you just hope your coach has programmed your training right for the past year so that you can complete all the movements and get through the workout. Once you complete the workout (it needs to be judged by an officia...

Here's a TIP for the gym junkies Never over emphasize the negative phase of your reps like dumb arse Uni Student Know it all book worms will tell you to do. Bodybuilding is a marathon If you want to be around whilst all the others are falling around you then feel the muscle feel the connection and find a nice tempo that allows for the PUMP and continued growth Perfect Example of over Emphasizing Negative phase was my all time Fave The Shadow. Muscle Hypertrophy happens under load and volume Negative phase should be controlled but not extreme That is all