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When life gets in the way | The Cloudfoot Diaries #54
Day three of training and already life has gotten in the way. I could lie and tell you I crushed the schedule. The reality was I felt weak as piss, sore as hell and had a whole sandwich of life issues...
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If you’re ready early, GO! | The Cloudfoot Diaries #55
Briefly carrying on the theme of life’s interventions… I’d finished work and had an hour until the scheduled time of Weightlifting club started. I felt energised and knew if I went to sit down and...
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Why are Front Planche progressions such a mission? | The Cloudfoot Diaries #56
I don’t know if it is the illusory, effortless nature that planche masters seem to exude in the photos I have seen, or my inflated ego that leads me to believe I can hold a front straddle planche, but...
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From Weakness to Strength – New Snatch PB! | The Cloudfoot Diaries #57
Day 6 of 6 has been and gone for week 1. Here’s me harping on how weak I am towards the tail end of the first week and yet today saw me hit a new PB on the Snatch – 70kg, the very weight I missed on my...
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Combining Gymnastics with Weightlifting; Week 2 of 12 in review | The...
The second of the twelve week, gymnastics and weightlifting combo-experiment is complete. Rather than post each day separately, I’ve compiled the training log and lessons learnt in to one post. I had...
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Week 3 of 12 – Everything Hurts | The Cloudfoot Diaries #59
Only 3 weeks in and I’m now in a lot of pain. My joints are aching. My tendons nagging. And my energy levels nowhere to be seen. Hints towards the flavour of overreaching are present. My appetite has...
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Praise Shiva, it’s DeLoad week | The Cloudfoot Diaries #60
After burying myself at the end of week 3 with a good old dose of overreaching, I couldn’t have felt more relieved to begin seven days of deloading nirvana. Now’s the time to start the recovery...
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Taking 5-HTP and Melatonin for sleep | The Cloudfoot Diaries #61
Since noticing a significant reduction in sleep quality from pushing my training limits a little further than normal, I did a bit of scouting on the internet to see which drugs were out there that...
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Combining Weightlifting with Gymnastics; Weeks 5-12 | The Cloudfoot Diaries #62
The second block of combining weightlifting with gymnastics is in full effect. Some changes had to be made; the tendons were getting spicy from too much work and the neural fatigue was setting in. Time...
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How Weightlifting Gave Me Patellar Tendonitis | The Cloudfoot Diaries #65
Now that I have your attention, this post should have been called ‘How I Gave Myself Patellar Tendonitis’. Why? Because it doesn’t really matter what the sport or activity is, if you’re body has a weak...
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LIVING IN A VAN | PART 3 | DISPELLING THE HASHTAG ‘VANLIFE’ MYTH
A photo posted by Project Vanlife (@projectvanlife) on Feb 13, 2016 at 8:39am PST There’s a lot of hashtag hype going around at the moment regarding #VanLife. I’m not even sure I feel comfortable...
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No Gi Reflections #8 | Structuring your training feat. John Danaher
“So often I see people engage in training with no plan as to what they are trying to accomplish.” TRUE THAT MR. JOHN DANAHER! I see it all the time, too, in pretty much every physical endeavour I...
View ArticleREVIEW | Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee (As seen on The Tim Ferriss Show)
Testing, testing! @foursigmatic #coffee #mushroom #nootropics #shrooms #awake #chaga #cordyceps #foursigmatic A photo posted by Harry Cloudfoot (@harrycloudfoot) on Dec 22, 2016 at 3:07am PST For the...
View ArticlePeople are nicer to you when you’re injured | The Cloudfoot Diaries #79
11 days ago I landed badly on my right shoulder during a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class. It was part accident, part poor technique and the result was a grade 2 seperation of my right AC joint; a predicted 8...
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