Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Friday, 8 November 2013
Friday, 23 August 2013
Thursday, 15 August 2013
SpartanFam Saturday...
All roads lead to Paddington Recreational Ground this Saturday, the 17th August, for SpartanFam Saturday.
The venue will be playing host to a mini-olympics filled with good music, good vibes and a spot of healthy competition led by Chaka Bars.
We'll be there busting a few exercise and dance moves, and schmoozing with the fam. So if you're in London and available on Saturday this is the place to be.
See ya there! Ahooo!
Saturday, 3 August 2013
The Bar-barians 'Recession Proof Body'...
Lee Wade Turner of the UK Bar-barians coached the 'Recession Proof Body' class at CrossFit Performance360 this Wednesday.
Checkout the album for more pics from the session here.
'Recession Proof Body' is held by the Bar-barians every Wednesday from 6.30pm - 8pm at CrossFit Performance360.
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
We're Wishing Brazil Well...
The protests in Brazil are re-inventing the concept of sport being a vehicle for social change! We wish our Brazilian brothers and sisters all the best for now and the future!
Thursday, 6 June 2013
The Way Of The Bar-barian...
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CrossFit Central London, located in Southwark, in the shadow of the Shard played host last weekend to the Bar-barians June UK Workshop.
We popped down on the Sunday for day two and took a few snaps of Rick Seedman, Mark Leitz, Jay Anthony, Lee Wade Turner, Sai Ngo and Miguel Ulloa teaching the way of the Bar-barian.
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These are just a few of the pics. For more head over to our facebook page. And or strap yourselves in for some of the action masterfully captured and presented by Benjamin Wachenje:
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
The Bar Jam At Breakin' Convention...
The Bar Jam at Breakin' Convention took place on the 6th May in London, England. The day, a UK Bank Holiday, was perfect and the event was off several shinny chains!!!
The vibe, the weather, the unity, the people and the skills were all copasetic!
Salute and respect to Benjamin Wachenje for pulling this beast of an event together.
Big up to the crews that attended and showed each other love - Bar-barians, Bartendaz, The Compound - Hybrid Training Facility, Blockworkout, Street Strength UK, Pure Barz, Bar-Zerkaz and Incite Fitness.
And a very special big up to the first ladies of the UK bar game, the female demolition squad that is Fi Silk and Zoe Loke!
More awesome pictures of the event can be found here.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Chaka Clarke and The SpartanFam...
Chaka Clarke is the founder of health & fitness collective ‘SpartanFam.’
He is young, charismatic and humbly self-assured. And these traits plus his wealth of knowledge make him one of London’s most popular personal trainers.
He’s attracted a throng of loyal clients who can best be described as fam(ily). Not only do they take part in his classes but they’re active supporters of his cause.
His cause? To instil the same passion and to experience the same benefits that he enjoys from exercise.
The former soldier has had his fair share of struggles and tragedy which may explain the air of maturity far beyond his 25 years. But despite this his fitness classes are tailored in such a way that they’re fun as well as engaging and challenging.
Of all the bootcamp type classes that we’ve attended SpartanFam has a vibe that we can’t quite put our finger on. Other group fitness sessions we’ve encountered employ similar exercises, with similarly charismatic personal trainers but Chaka’s lessons seem to have an edge.
Perhaps that’s why he has city execs, models and celebrities as well as ordinary folk vying for his expertise. Such is Chaka and the SpartanFam’s positive impact that mainstream media has taken note.
Surprisingly his sessions are reasonably priced so we advise that if you’re based in London or passing through you checkout his classes now, whilst his schedule allows.
For more info on Chaka and the SpartanFam visit his website.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Run For Your Lives...
Barbwire, electrocution, mud, sweat, tears and exhaustion just aren't enough for some people they need Zombies in the mix to make that perfect 5K obstacle race - runforyourlives.com
Source: MNL
Monday, 22 April 2013
Bar-barians in session at YMCA West London...
Last Thursday, the 18th April, Miguel, Lee and Jay of the UK Bar-barians held a session at YMCA West London.
Miguel on the dip bar facing off with Lee.
Jay getting in some diamond push ups.
Lee showing how to muscle-up.
Their special guest for the day was Russian calisthenician Gleb Tsybin founder of the Ekaterinburg Street Workout Club.
Jay refereeing a pull up competition between Miguel and Lee.
Group pull up competition.
For more pics from the day head here.
Saturday, 23 March 2013
Recession Proof Body...
The UK wing of the Bar-barians are distilling their knowledge into a weekly class called, "Recession Proof Body."
School's at Crossfit Performance360, lessons start this coming wednesday and the bell rings at 6.30pm!
Checkout flyer for more details.
Monday, 11 February 2013
United Kingdom Bar Community Gathering...
Benjamin Wachenje, the fella behind one of last year's best fitness virals expertly captured in moving pictures the first ever UKBC mass gathering on the 3rd February 2013.
Held in Kettering, UK at the William Knibb Centre's 'The Compound' and hosted by ambassador of the bar Anton Guidera, the event saw the biggest meet up to date of callisthenicians, bar athletes and street workout aficionados.
People from 'rival' crews travelled from all over the country coming together under the same bar. Skills were showcased, tips exchanged and friendly competition had.
We briefly popped in and took a few snaps. Checkout some of them below.
For more snaps from the event visit our facebook page for the gallery.
Monday, 31 December 2012
Enjoy The Journey & The Results - Happy 2013!
The New Year is upon us and most will be taking the opportunity to set goals for 2013 and beyond.
Make sure whatever your goals are you make the journey to achieving them enjoyable!
Source: Shaka Lish
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Facenastics: A Bar-Barian Experience - Nov 2012
(L to R: Jay Anthony, Lee Wade Turner, Māris Šlēziņš, Sai Ngo & Deividas Smailys)
The late great Godfather of physical fitness, Jack Lalanne coined the term and popularised the practice of facenastics - the bending, flexing and gurning of the face in order to maintain youthful good looks.
Māris Šlēziņš, President of the World Street Workout Federation seems to have taken up the mantle of Godfather Jack's good work via the practice of 'facing' a more urban static based fear-inducing spin-off.
Support for the new trend has been hugely forthcoming in fitness quarters and the likes of Jay Anthony, Lee Wade Turner, Sai Ngo and Deividas Smailys of the Bar-barians were eager to teach 'facing' along with other types of bodyweight exercises at their workshop at Train Manchester last month.
Regular readers of our blog will know we have a slight soft spot for bodyweight training and callisthenics. One form we practice frequently has similarities to gymnastics and is generally performed on pull-up bars and parallel bars found in parks. It has become popularly known as 'street workout' and friends of fizzYcaL, Sai, Lee, Jay and Deividas are amongst some of the known faces in this up and coming form of fitness.
With the success of their first UK workshop, which Rick Seedman and Mark Leitz of the US Bar-barians co-presented, the UK faction (with assistance from their Lithuanian brother, Deividas, and soon-to-be Bar-barian, Miguel Ulloa) presided over an even bigger group of hungry to learn exercise enthusiasts this time a round.
Still able to recall the challenging second day of the first UK workshop we thought we would take it easy and just attend the first day of the basics. The 'Bar-barian basic' however is not like your ordinary basic. Simple exercises like push-ups, pull-ups and dips are given an overhaul that challenges you like nothing else.
For example, one such challenge was a group dead-hang pull-up session. 5 or 6 people dead-hang from bars, one person does a set of pull-ups, stops and dead-hangs, then the other person does a set, stops and dead hangs and so on. As soon as someone lets go of the bars the team is out and the number of pull-ups that everyone collectively did is added together and compared to the other teams' totals to find a winning group.
It was great to be reminded of, and introduced to ways of making even the simplest of exercises fresh, fun and challenging. By shaking up the routine and using super sets, giant sets, pyramid sets, timed sets, games and group workouts the Bar-barians showed how easy it was to stop exercise plateaus without having to introduce equipment.
Such has been the success of the Bar-barians bodyweight message and their exposure this year that the audience was made up of people with broad exercise and fitness experience. And what was really good to see were more female participants getting stuck in and switching on to the effectiveness of 'street workout.'
Them BoxRox dudes were on hand both days to capture what went down. So make sure you checkout the video of day one above, and day two below to see what you can look forward to when you attend the next one. Keep it locked here.
(photos by MNL)
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Clark Kent wears fizzYcaL red...
[photo via street workout fashion]
Miguel Ulloa, aka Migs, aka Superman, aka Clark Kent from London, England performing a one arm twisting L-sit hold at the World Street Workout Championship held earlier this year in Riga, Latvia. Checkout Miguel's first set at the champs here.
The event was covered by Eurosport and sees street workout getting the nod from the popular media that it deserves. Well done to Māris Šlēziņš, Chairman of World Street Workout Federation, and his team for pulling that coup off.
You can now get your fizzYcaL wear from our new store.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Saturday, 6 October 2012
Monday, 6 August 2012
Cassey Ho of Blogilates...
[Cheese with Cassey of Blogilates and Ify of GETfizzYcaL]
Super inspirational and hugely popular Cassey Ho of Blogilates fame is in London to cover the Olympics courtesy of YouTube.
Yesterday, she held a POP Pilates Meetup in London attended by about 60 of her followers or as they're called POPsters (checkout the pics).
In the next instalment of fizzYcaL video profiles we'll be featuring an interview with Cassey so keep it locked on these here pages and or subscribe to our interview's channel.
Thanks to 'Woman Named Justyna' aka WNJ via 'Man Named Luke' aka MNL for bringing Cassey to our attention ;-)
Friday, 27 July 2012
Merry Olympics And A Happy Olympiad...
Today is Friday the 27th July, which means the 2012 Olympics officially, officially begin!
One of the many things that won London the 2012 Olympic bid in 2005 was the cameo laden film, 'Sport At Heart' starring The Beckham.
No other city had a chance!
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