The green, green grass of home

Scott Birdby Scott Bird | June 18, 2005
Filed in videos , workouts | 6 comments

GreenI arrived back in Edinburgh last night, having had my fill of ruined castles, churches and bridges over the past few weeks. Also - somewhat surprisingly - I managed to gain a bit of weight. Trekking around three countries was apparently equalled by the proceeds of a diet rich in pork pies, hamburgers and chips. Mmmm.

The ‘on the road’ workout routines were great, although I substituted a healthy dose of early morning mountain air for a workout about half of the time. The only change I would make for future trips is to increase the dose of ab work slightly - the rest of it seemed to go down well.

Overall it felt like a well-balanced routine (for my current needs at least); although I’ll need to wait for the results of my next few workouts to verify that. Whilst I wade through the several hundred emails that have come my way over the past couple of weeks, here’s a bit of (video - 2MB, .wmv). Unfortunately there wasn’t enough room on the card to record the following session (Hindu squats), so I’ll do those separately.

As for photos, I’m just wading through several thousand of them now. The joys of digital photography.


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Comments

1

welcome back scott…

Posted by: john yeo | June 19, 2005 2:28 PM

2

Welcome back Scott. I was starting to wonder if you took a permenant vacation! Look forward to seeing your blog back up and running and the pictures you took on your trip!

Posted by: Christian Dorr | June 19, 2005 2:50 PM

3

Good to have you back. And that is one beautiful picture!!!

Posted by: Alberto Caraballo | June 19, 2005 4:45 PM

4

Nice to have you back, Scott. A lot has happened since you left. You’ve got a lot of blog posts to catch up with :P

Posted by: John McDonald | June 19, 2005 10:13 PM

5

I’ve been doing a bit of blog reading between batches of photos. John, want to make it easier and do a synopsis of the past few weeks? :)

Posted by: Scott | June 19, 2005 11:12 PM

6

A synopsis of my workouts would be that I’m in the second week of an old school style routine…based on Canadian strongman Doug Hepburn’s training.
Five heavy singles followed by five sets of five as back-off… yesterday, I did 5×1x280 followed by 5×5x230 (BP).
There’s a new blogger on the block, my friend Rick Hussey. You can check out his blog at http://1975hussey.blogspot.com

Posted by: John McDonald | June 20, 2005 12:01 PM

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