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I had forgotten about this site: www.bodyrock.tv

It's just loaded with interesting workouts, diet info and so much more. I hope you'll like it.

Have fun and a GREAT weekend!

So there's a national (I mistakenly had said international in another post, sorry) diving contest taking place in Porto Koufo port in Chalkidiki these days, Porto Koufo served as port for German submarines & warships during WWII and its bottom has wrecks and stuff.

Diving rules are simple, grab a carved marble plate (scandalopetra) and go for it. Before the dive you tell your dive master how deep you want to go so once you're in the dive there is no chance you can go deeper than what you've… Continue

So yesterday I was in an exhibition and there was a Gym's stand featuring a power plate. (I have never tried using a power plate but have been told it's extremely tiring)

So the guy starts giving a demonstration and asks me to perform some exercises one of which was staying in the incline pushup position for a minute, while telling me at the same time that fit users can perform pushups at the same time, so to his astonishment I start pushing'em out with ease earning me some good comments on my… Continue

Summer's has arrived and temperatures are rather high, at least here in Greece, reaching 37 Celsius at 16:00 yesterday.

Needless to say I never stop exercising no matter how high or how low temperatures get and of course I never skip my running sessions (regardless of rain, snow, or blazing heat).

My major difficulty during summer exercise is that I prefer to do my workouts as soon as I finish from work so that I can have my afternoons free and of course running 6-10 km with 37 degrees isn't f… Continue

First of all my compliments to Team Perfect and Stew Smith! Today I put 3 products to the test, PPU handles, Perfect Pullup handles (just got them), and Stew Smith's Grinder PT.

100 Perfect pushups (in as few sets as possible)
10 Perfect pullups (shoulder width) rest with 20 dips after each set of pullups x 5 cycles
10 Perfect pullups (close width) rest with 20 dips after each set of pullups x 5 cycles
50 Perfect pushups standard width
100 abs
40 Perfect pushups wide
100 abs
30 Perfect pushups… Continue