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About Me

I have been living in Paphos, Cyprus for 4 years now so I guess I'd call it home. I am a bit out of touch with old friends though - sorry! I'm currently in the throes of setting up a new company which provides personal training qualifications (Solar Fitness Qualifications) so if you are interested in spending 8 weeks in the sun to get a accredited diploma in personal training, drop me a line. Check out the link below to the SFQ website...

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amazing strength.
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My Interests

Fitness training, especially crossfit type stuff, love reading books, watching movies, hanging out in coffee shops, eating out, cooking, shaving my head!!! and checking out the internet.

I'd like to meet:

Friends old and new and anyone keen to network. Especially keen to hear from anyone in Cyprus. I get back to Bristol quite often so would love to hear from any old Bristolian friends who want to catch up next time I'm back in town.

Angry Kid - Tourettes

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Music:

All sorts - old rock, new rock, 80's & 90's - anything that lifts my mood or makes me feel energized. I really enjoy singing too but only Karaoke although I'm contemplating taking singing lessons to compliment my electric guitar lessons...

Movies:

Love movies! Especially like the "Saw" series, horror films in general, the Rocky movies, James Bond - the newest J.B. is excellent BTW!, any decent thriller, Jim Carey comedies, Adam Sandler movies (Happy Gilmore is a classic!)...I will watch just about anything really. I like films so much that sometimes I think I should quit the fitness business and start writing movie reviews!

Television:

24, Prison Break, Deadwood, CSI, Scrubs, House, Six Feet Under, Serenity, 4400, Blackadder, Lost, Bones, Heroes, Rome, Little Britain, Simpsons...

Books:

Anything by Stephen King, Joe R Lansdale, Dean Koontz, Carl Hiaasen, Tony Hawks, Ross Emanait. My favourite books include The Stand and The Talisman by Stephen King, All the Hap and Leonard books by Joe R Lansdale and I am sad to say that I really like the Harry Potter books too - even though the movies suck!

Heroes:

Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Saville, Frank Bruno, Daley Thompson, Kevin Simmons, my dad and grandads, all heroes for vastly different reasons.

My Blog

Todays sessions

Day five of twice a day training. AM So even though it's saturday and I was out late last night, I foolishly arranged an early morning training session on the beach. As it happens it turned out very w...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:57:00 PST

Swim like a fish - again.

Day four of twice a day training. AM 10 minutes of skipping followed by a nice little mini circuit - on minute 1 - 12 press ups, minute 2 - 6 chin ups, on minute 3 - 6 ab wheel roll outs. Repeated for...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:57:00 PST

Water sports :-)

Day 3 of twice a day training AM 60 minute Beach workout. Lots of sand bag dragging, sledgehammer swinging, sprinting, medicine ball throwing as with previous beach workouts. Tried to up the intensity...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:02:00 PST

Run like the wind!!!

Day 2 of twice a day training... AM 20 minutes of step ups on 20" step - nice easy but sweaty start to the day...reminded me of my time as a step aerobics teacher, back in the day when aerobic te...
Posted by Patrick on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:00 PST

Beach workout plus extra stuff

Double training sessions day 1 After a weekend of way to much food, beer and champagne and knowing next week while in the UK for a week I'm less likely to train as much as usual, I'm going to tra...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

Chins, press ups, sit ups and squats

This weekend I have been to a stag night and wedding so I'm feeling a bit weighed down by the excesses of the weekend! To undo the damage of the weekend I did the following:- Warm up - 1.5 mile run i...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

Baywatch is Back!!!

Not - not the TV show but my mate Jim and I training on the beach. After a jog to warm up we did 5 sets of each of following:- 50 meter sprints with a walk back recovery 50 meter Chest pass medic...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:20:00 PST

Record Breakers!

Did a "tempo run" today - which basically means run as fast as you can over a set distance or for a set time. In this type of training you work at a level called your "anaerobic threshold" which ...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:20:00 PST

Odd/even supersets

A whole body muscular strength/endurence workout today with a hint of circuits thrown in for good measure! Warm up. 4 x 4 minutes rounds of skipping with 1 min rest between sets. Main session. Odd/Eve...
Posted by Patrick on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:10:00 PST

Around and around...

I did intervals on the track today - killer... 4 laps (1 mile) jog to warm up, 4 x 800 meters off of 4 minutes, 4 x 400 meters of of 3 minutes, 4 x 200 meters off of 2 minutes, 4 x 100 meters off of 1...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:24:00 PST