After yesterdays training disappointment I was looking forward to tonight’s crossfit session. Why was I looking forward to it? Well you are only as good as your last session, so a great session tonight, I felt, would put me back on track. For tonight’s session I went
Read more →Tonight was grand final night for my Touch Rugby League team ‘No Gary No’. Our opponents tonight were a team call ‘Incoll’, who are a team that we always have close games with, but have never lost to. Unfortunately for us we had four players missing from
Read more →Today bought another game of of Touch Rugby League, which is my favourite form of Hidden Exercise. Due to weather and work I had not played for a few weeks, so I was keen to get stuck into it tonight. My Hidden Exercise Session to Stay
Read more →Today I had a day off from work and was feeling extrememly motivated to train. Motivated enough to want to train twice today. So how do I incorporate 2 training sessions into a day, so that 1 session does not impact on the other? I seperate them
Read more →Today’s session of Legs and Shoulders reminded me of the importance of functional strength. For the uninitiated functional strength is training to improve on movements that we as humans perform everyday such as walking, jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, turning, standing, starting, stopping,
Read more →During my shift today at work a mate who I sometimes discuss training with was telling me about the great strength gains he was achieving using plate loaded hammer strength machines and wondered if I had considered using them as part of my routine. I explained to
Read more →Last night Mrs Niko and I went to a friend’s wedding and had a few too many drinks. Whilst not the most healthy thing to do, I still like to enjoy a few drinks with friends when I get a chance. As I always say it is
Read more →Now that the Rugby League football season is over, there is no more Friday Night Football for me to watch. This means that Friday night is now another night a week that I can train. Whilst I don’t use eXcuses for not training, I always tried to
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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. 
