Three words that should never be used to accurately describe me.
Another tough week of training, having seen some form of exercise every day this week, including two grueling stair sessions with the elevation mask on, and another two without, finally culminating today with a 4 hour beach hike ending in 37 degree heat.
Very happily Im told that we are pushing ourselves far harder than most of the trekkers usually do (in this charity's experience), I pray to god that it proves useful.
It wasn't just the training that stepped up a notch this week, so did our sponsorship. We hit our first fundraising target thanks to great support from friends, family and colleagues.
We also progressed our plans with the Talise gym at the Madinat. Talise have very kindly given us some use of their altitude chamber. You should see this thing, its amazing, a full on gym inside the chamber -all of the latest technogym treadmills, bikes, a rower and a trx/weight station. Couldn't ask for more, cant wait to use it!
Before what I do now, I used to run gyms, and that in addition to being a former gym monkey - I've seen the inside of a few. This place is unlike the ones I've seen.
All the latest cardio kit and so many pieces you'd never wait for a machine. Free weights that if combined would outweigh all the elephants in Africa, Studio rooms over spilling with circuit/spinning/boxing equipment and pool facilities that would give Mike Phelps a shiver.
So we turned up to the gym yesterday for a photo shoot with Mens Fitness who are covering our story for the August Issue. Ive never had a proper photo taken before, it felt very weird posing-without posing for a camera whilst on a treadmill!
If anything though, we looked the part. North face have given us some exceptional kit and it looked excellent in the shoot.
The jackets they've given us are amazing, like the old duckdown puffer jackets, but 1/4 the size, so far they feel very warm, but we are going to do a snow hike at Ski Dubai next week, so Ill report back on how good they were in the proper cold.
All in all a very good week. But tiring, so off to the land of nod for me.
Another tough week of training, having seen some form of exercise every day this week, including two grueling stair sessions with the elevation mask on, and another two without, finally culminating today with a 4 hour beach hike ending in 37 degree heat.
Very happily Im told that we are pushing ourselves far harder than most of the trekkers usually do (in this charity's experience), I pray to god that it proves useful.
It wasn't just the training that stepped up a notch this week, so did our sponsorship. We hit our first fundraising target thanks to great support from friends, family and colleagues.
We also progressed our plans with the Talise gym at the Madinat. Talise have very kindly given us some use of their altitude chamber. You should see this thing, its amazing, a full on gym inside the chamber -all of the latest technogym treadmills, bikes, a rower and a trx/weight station. Couldn't ask for more, cant wait to use it!
Before what I do now, I used to run gyms, and that in addition to being a former gym monkey - I've seen the inside of a few. This place is unlike the ones I've seen.
All the latest cardio kit and so many pieces you'd never wait for a machine. Free weights that if combined would outweigh all the elephants in Africa, Studio rooms over spilling with circuit/spinning/boxing equipment and pool facilities that would give Mike Phelps a shiver.So we turned up to the gym yesterday for a photo shoot with Mens Fitness who are covering our story for the August Issue. Ive never had a proper photo taken before, it felt very weird posing-without posing for a camera whilst on a treadmill!
If anything though, we looked the part. North face have given us some exceptional kit and it looked excellent in the shoot.
All in all a very good week. But tiring, so off to the land of nod for me.
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