Need a new exercise?

Need a new weight lifting exercise?

Sick of doing chest press with four sets of 8 reps?

Doing a few bicep curls, being bored, wasting your workout and feeling shit?

It’s boring as fuck and isn’t healthy and productive if your still lifting the same weights for the last year and your making no progress.

I mixed my routine up and switched to a “Barbell Clean and Press”.

This is putting weight on the bar, lifting it up to your quads, getting your form right by thrusting your hips and flicking the bar to your shoulders. Then the final stage of lifting and pushing the barbell up above your head.

 

Benefits of this exercies inlude:

• Uses nearly every muscle in your body.
• Glutes Quads Hamstrings Back Shoulders Arms Core
• Once you’re comfortable doing it, though, you’ll have a powerful, athletic looking physique
• Increases grip strength
• Increases all round stability
• Being cool and different as fuck to be able to throw 60kg easily over there head.

With this exercise you can then incorporate a military press which isjust resting the bar while standing and pushing it up thn returning to your chest. Also mixing this up by putting the bar behind your head will build upper body and lower body stability, espiceally shoulders and traps!

Most sites and people will try and drill reps and sets into you online to make them sound smarter than another. However for this exercise its all about trial and error to see what sets you can do along with the reps. The fact it’s an full body exercise means your gonna be different to others but in the end it’s only what you can do over time building stability and power.

Unpredictability of the All-Ireland SFC

As a Cavan man and a supporter of Cavan football all my life I haven’t the glory of my county winning an All-Ireland in my time, yet. It is never clear for me, the other fans across the country or the media, who will come out on top once championship comes in any years.

However isn’t that what makes it so brilliant?

From the league we see teams with different objectives. These may include trying the panel out, fighting for promotion or to avoid relegation or trying different tactics. However once championship comes, every man is willing to die to be crowned All Ireland champion with his county.

From the last few years every pundit has a different view of who will win and who shall lose. From the physically demanding Donegal in 2012, to Stephen Cluxton’s last minute free to seal it for the Dubs in 2011. To the victorious Cork team in 2010, who claimed a SFC for the rebel county in a twenty year wait.  There has been a great mixture in competition, especially for the audience.

Yet still in 2014 we still can’t predict a winner. The Dubs are strong of course, Kerry without the Gooch hard to live up to expectations. Then the likes of Derry Cork and Tyrone in division one league are exciting prospects but could bluff it when the long road begins to Croker.  Then we can’t forget about Mayo who are still having nightmares of being runners up two years in a row.

After many talks, arguments and conclusions with different people whether it is at dinner, having a cup of tea or a sneaky pint of stout, one thing is clear. Each year of the SFC seems to get better and better with the prospect of a new winner and stories that will become legendary for future generations.