Welcome to my blog!

Hello everybody!

This is my first entry and I'm very new to the whole blooger world so please excuse any "mistakes" I made/make ;)

As the title and my profile say, this blog is mainly about my training and nutrition. I constantly use my own body to experiment with different training strategies and nutritional approaches, always trying to improve my health and fitness. As one of my mentors, the much respected Steve Cotter said, I'm a lifelong student and if I find better ways, I have no problems changing my views. I hope my experiences will help others to achieve their goals too.

Now that we got over with this boring introduction, lets get to my first topic:

Last saturday I attended the "Nature training winter camp" hosted by Dominik Feischl in Upper Austria. Dominik is a very nice guy and an exceptional athlete and what he had prepared for us was simply amazing. (Here is his blog: http://naturtraining.blogspot.com/). We spent the whole day outside, doing pullups and its variations (handwalking!!!), strongman stuff like tire flipping and carrying, bulgarian training bags, hill sprints, running through the woods and doing some crazy stuff with tree trunks. The weather was freezing cold and after a couple of hours it even started to snow but every single participant was extremly motivated and the atmosphere just got better and better with every minute.

In the end of the day we all went to a traditional Austrian restaurant having our well deserved and needed "post workout meal", talking about training and nutrition (btw, the bread basket stayed untouched, more about my nutrional approach in one of the upcoming posts ;)). It is simply amazing how much I was able to learn from everyone, we were a bunch of likeminded people but everybody brought his individual ideas and concepts to the table. My good friend Harry also wrote about the camp on his blog, you can check it out here: http://mpbody.blogspot.com/2010/01/wintertraining-in-thomasroith-2009.html

Summing up, it was an amazing experience and I can't wait to attend Dominik's next training camp this coming summer. Also, there's much more to come from us ;)

Here's a short video Domink made on saturday, you can see me doing some tire carrying, doing pullups and legraises at the end of the clip.





A bunch of crazy people ;)