Training hard for the London Triathlon July 28, 2007
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A lot has been happening over the last few months. I have moved my business from LA Fitness in the City to a private studio in London. I have also been personal training with clients in the Surbiton, Esher and Kingston areas PLUS training very hard for the London Triathlon.
I am in a relay team and I have the 10km run to do. Most of you realize that 10 km is not going to be a struggle for me as I have done marathons and half marathons before. But having to run a 10km fast has taken a lot of training (and a lot of injuries too). I’ve used treadmills early in the year a getting my time down to 45 minutes. I then picked up a hip injury (of all things!)… Flu… Stomach problems.
3 months later I started again. My 10 km time was back to 55 mins and my runs had to be limited to 2 a week so I didn’t over do the hip. For the past 4 weeks I have introduced cycling back into my training and all of a sudden I’m running sub 50 mins! On the day I should get close to 45 mins. There is nothing like a bit of cross training to help things along.
So with 6 days to go the training is coming to an end. I will run twice and cycle twice more and have a full day rest before the start on Saturday 4 August.
For the next six weeks this blog is going to concentrate on Functional strength training…
Till the next time…
Carry on training 
Paul
Leading Edge Fitness gets a blog! July 28, 2007
Posted by leadingedgefitness in Uncategorized.2 comments
Well it’s my first blog. What does one say?
I am a personal fitness trainer, based in the Surrey area, near London. I also train clients in the City too, near Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations.
I am so passionate about exercising but not till about 3 years ago did I decide to pursue this seriously. A friend of mine, Ross, commented while in the gym one day that I had a natural ability to train and pass on my knowledge. This was while I was living in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. It all then clicked into place for me. I flew back to the UK and dived in to do my personal training course. I am REPS 3 certified and hold a diploma in Personal Training from YMCA. I have recently completed my PREMIER PTS Resisted Movement Training (RMT) certification.
I want to see this blog grow into a series of tips, motivations, musings, bits of personal training advice, demonstrations and all round useful resource for exercising.
I hope you enjoy and benefit. Let me know what you think.
Happy training 
Paul
