paulradcliffe.me archive
Category: General Running and/or Fitness
May 30, 2015
Why? Profound Armour Piercing Question About Fitness Motivation
Why? Why may be the one of the most probing and interesting questions. It delves deeper into the motivations and causes of all events. It’s a simple, but armour-piercing question that cuts right to the heart of the matter. That’s probably why it’s one of the most challenging questions to answer fully and honestly. “When I was sixteen, I went to work for a newspaper in Hong Kong. It was a rag, but the editor taught me one important lesson. The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.” –Elliot Carter from “Tomorrow[…continue reading]
May 23, 2015
Change of Plans
I love making plans. For whatever reason, I feel sad whenever my plans change. But, a change in the plan is just an opportunity to do more planning. NEW GYM The first big change is that I have committed to a 1-year membership with Goodlife Fitness. I’ve been debating switching gyms for a while. I was debating between staying with the City of Mississauga Parks and Recreation fitness clubs or switching to Goodlife Fitness. My trainer with the City has “retired” from doing personal training, so that kind of sealed my decision to switch to Goodlife. I got a nice[…continue reading]
May 21, 2015
Strength Training Routine
My injury at the end of January kind of forced me to go back to the gym, which was really good for me. I look back on my most successful seasons and I realize that those seasons were highlighted with a lot of strength training. So, it’s important to me to get back into the gym in a serious way. I thought this would be a good opportunity to share my current strength training routine that was developed by my most recent trainer, Matt Kudu. To most gym rats, this will look like rather light weights. But my goal is lean muscle,[…continue reading]
