Results matching “Bird”

If you're in London at the end of september, why not check out the Food for the Brain conference. Featuring a who's who of nutritional speakers, this looks set to be a great one.

Despite making a few negative remarks in the past concerning a reliance on machines, my dad's current interest in adding a leg press to the home gym coincides nicely with a podcast on Bud + Nancy's Muscle Ventures site. The first podcast compares 4 leg press machines (at the one gym, no less); future videos promise to address some of the numerous variations commonly employed on such equipment. More than you might imagine.

On a side note, if anyone else is wondering just how to play the high-quality H.264 podcasts on a machine running an older OS (this machine is still happily using Win98SE, but the same applies to almost anything on Windows, MacOS or Linux), give the VideoLAN Client (VLC) a go.

The Diesel Crew's 'Smitty' chats to Alwyn Cosgrove in a fairly illuminating interview [.pdf, 75kb].

Born 22 November 1936 in Nottingham, John Bird is a satirist, actor and comedian. As with many English satirists he was educated at Cambridge, becoming well-known shortly afterward in the 1960s' television series That Was The Week That Was.

In the 1970s he gained further notoriety as a satirist with the popular recording The Colleckerted [sic] Broadcasts of Idi Amin (based on Alan Coren's anti-Idi Punch columns).

Despite acting in several films - in both straight and comedic roles - he is now best known in the UK for his work alongside John Fortune and Rory Bremner; particular the award-winning Bremner, Bird and Fortune series.

In Australia he is currently seen alongside Stephen Fry in the 2002 series of Absolute Power.

Born 22 November 1936 in Nottingham, John Bird is a satirist, actor and comedian. As with many English satirists he was educated at Cambridge, becoming well-known shortly afterward in the 1960s' television series That Was The Week That Was.

In the 1970s he gained further notoriety as a satirist with the popular recording The Colleckerted [sic] Broadcasts of Idi Amin (based on Alan Coren's anti-Idi Punch columns).

Despite acting in several films - in both straight and comedic roles - he is now best known in the UK for his work alongside John Fortune and Rory Bremner; particular the award-winning Bremner, Bird and Fortune series.

In Australia he is currently seen alongside Stephen Fry in the 2002 series of Absolute Power.

Mike Hanley provides an excellent summary of the four types of effort commonly associated with strength training.

The Diesel Crew's Jim 'Smitty' Smith completes his 3 part article series on 'Corporate Strength'. This series looks at a couple of ways in which widely-used approaches to corporate projects can be altered for use with strength-related ones.

Find a quiet corner and wade in[.pdf, 297kb] (part 1, part 2).

Meet Elena Seiple : strongwoman, elite powerlifter and bodybuilder. Very impressive.

For another example of someone who's definitely become enamoured with kettlebells, check out Paul Tucker's site.

Kettlebell training in Tasmania - sounds perfect.

The next time you take a wander over to the Iron Sport site, check out the new forum. Favourite thread so far : condiment phobias. Yes, you read that right. Condiments.