Author Archives: Daniel

Easter Egg-cercise

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This Easter weekend the average British child will consume 5 chocolate eggs plus the chocolate bars included with them. In total some children will consume in excess of 10,000 calories over the Easter period. The research all tends to point towards children but I am sure there are plenty of adults that will […]

Hamstring Muscles Strength Training

A comment by FGN, on the recent Cardio and Calisthenics post asked:
Daniel, How do you strengthen your hamstrings properly? I like the routine but I think i’m neglecting my hamstrings.
Instead of replying in a comment I will discuss this issue in this post. Sometimes an answer to a question requires more than a few sentences […]

Cardio and Calisthenics

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Recently I wrote about how I had changed my running route because I have moved house. Well, I have adapted this route slightly so that I can perform calisthenics while I am out on the run. The reason I have done this is basically to save time, always a good thing in my […]

EntreCard 125 Design Winner

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First of all I’d like to thank the Entrecarders who each designed a card or two for me. Each design offered something different and unique and can be viewed here and here so take a look and you’ll see what I mean.
I’m not good at all this competition business so I’ll keep this […]

5 More Entrecard Designs

Over the weekend I received 5 additional 125 card designs from three Entrecarders. They are welcome additions and each offers their own unique details.
Courtesy of Foolsville 2.0
Also courtesy of Foolsville 2.0
Courtesy of Lucky Sweeper
Also courtesy of Lucky Sweeper
Courtesy of Tech Jaws
As you can see they each offer something different and vindicate my decision to […]

EntreCard 125 Design Update

So far two kind Entrecarders have designed me a new 125 EC card.
The first that arrived in my inbox was this design by Tech Blog
This design was created by Musings of eyespi20
Both creations utilise the specifications that I set out and therefore suitably qualify for the 250 EC credits. If you think you can do […]

EntreCard 125 Design

Since I have changed my domain name, theme, and host I’ve been thinking why not change my Entrecard too. Here are the 3 designs that I have come up with. Now, I’m not Photoshop expert as you can see, but I do have a passion for learning and have been dabbling for a few days […]

How Not To Tread In Dog Shit

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Recently I designed a new cross country running route, my old route was along the beach that I no longer live near - a sad story I know, that encompasses a notoriously popular dog walking location that is laden with dog muck. Not only do I have to try and dodge the shit […]

My attempt to migrate from blogger to WordPress.

 
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I author a blog using the free Blogger platform. In the beginning this was perfect for my blogging needs, simply to write articles and publish them. I had zero knowledge of SEO, widgets, web 2.0, plug-ins, adsense, keywords, and all the other jargon terms used to describe web publishing techniques and utilities, in […]

Limits of the human body

This stuff is shocking

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Have you ever thought about the limits of the human body? I know that I have. I used to watch athletics on the T.V. all the time as a young boy, my favourite event to watch was always the 100 metre sprint. I used to watch Linford Christie storm down […]