After 2 days in a row of doing weight training, it was time to perform a HIIT session. Today I decided to do a crossfit session in the gym at the hotel where I am staying. One of the first things that I do when I a
Read more →After yesterdays crap experience at the gym I started asking around at work if anyone knew of a good, relatively cheap gym. One of the blokes I work with suggested a place called the ‘Muscle Hut’, which is based in Kawana, about a 10 minute drive away
Read more →Today I again was on the road for work. Again I am back on the Sunshine Coast which is about 100km north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Given that I do weight training 3 times a week, I decided that I needed to find a gym on
Read more →Friday night, normally this means to me a couple of drinks whilst watching a double header of Friday night football. However, tonight I was home on my own and I felt a need to train. So for the entire afternoon I had a mental arm wrestle with
Read more →Due to ongoing work commitments, I have found myself having to travel away from home for periods of time. A lot of people would use this as an eXcuse not to train; see if any of these eXcuses sound familiar: ‘I don’t want to have to pay
Read more →Today I am training legs again. In a perfect world I normally have about 5-7 days off between training the same body part, however it has been only 4 days since I trained legs last. There are a few schools of thought when it comes to rest
Read more →I am still on the first week of my new 12 week program. Today’s training split is Legs, Shoulders and abs. For the first few years of training, I like many others neglected my legs. If I was to miss a session, I undoubtedly would miss my
Read more →People often ask me about what my motivation to train is, I get asked that often that I am in the process of creating an article about motivation. For today’s post, I’m focusing on the most common response that I give when asked about motivation and that
Read more →Last time I spoke about hidden exercise I spoke about finding a sport or exercise that you enjoy doing, when you do you will have found your hidden exercise. Since posting last about hidden exercise people have asked me about what sports or exercise I would consider to be
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My name is Niko. I’m a 35 year-old happily married, shift working, father of two boys. My whole life I have been involved in sport, through high school and my early to mid-twenties I was heavily involved in playing Rugby League and weight training. 
