The Unsung Heroes

Tomorrow night I will be leaving for a three-week work trip to the orient. I will keep training and hitting the gym and the road but I will be doing it without my support team who have kept me going over the last six weeks. So I thought it was time to shine a light on the other parts of Team Wallace, without whom I am sure I would have given up during week 1.
So who do I want to thank? There is my personal trainer, who kicks my flabby ass out of bed every morning to hit the road running and drag me the park every Sunday morning. Motivating me to work harder and push myself to the limit every session.  My personal photographer, who come rain or shine captures my workouts and publishes them on line in effort to help raise awareness and interest in our cause to raise money for Cancer Research.  My Chef who prepares delicious and nutritious meals to ensure I have the prefect diet (well it would be if the M&Ms would stop calling me) to lose weight, gain muscle and recover from my intensive workouts. My Sports Therapist, who talks me through the low points and pushes up my self-confidence to know that come May 13 I will not only survives but also thrives on the TM course.

The crazy thing is that my PT, Photographer, Chef and Therapist are actually just one amazing person. Yep my own personal superwoman, the love of my life Mrs Samantha Wallace. Despite being horrified at the prospect of her uncoordinated and asthmatic husband running through fire, and being electrocuted she has been my rock and loudest supported. Without her, I would have given up or not even stated. For the last six weeks (and 4 months to come) she has been woken up with 5am alarms, dragged out for early morning weekend trips to the park, held ice packs in place, massaged sore muscles, rubbed Vaseline on chaffed … well let’s just say areas , given up wine at weekends, the list goes on and on. Not once has she complained well apart from the one request I had but apparently that’s only for Birthdays and not Tough Mudder related.

Even when I am going to be away on the most romantic day of the year, she just moves it to another day. Samantha  Jayne Wallace you are my protector, my lover, and my best friend you are my everything. When I get down it’s her who talks me back up, when I get carried away it’s she that reins me in.  I love you Boo. Even though I will be half a planet away I know she will be with me….Well with Skype, mobiles, texting Facebook and email she pretty much is. Plus look how much she does she need a break from all this Tough Mudder craziness.

So there you have my thank you to my support team of one Mrs W. Also big love to all of you who have sponsored us we are just over ½ way to our £1000 target, but in Wallace style we would like to smashes it so if you have not done so yet click the link and part with some of that hard earned cash. I mean come on we posted an Incest vid on you tube, our humiliation is surly worth a few of your golden ducats even in these cash strapped time.

No stats this week but I will Post them fresh after one week of training in Hong Kong so as a wise old china man once said “Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character” Yer twist your brains around that one Mudders.

TTFN The Big Guy

How to work out for free.

I thought I would Post the full list of my current Sunday morning workout to highlight how you can have a great workout without the cost of joining a gym.  Here my workout from this Sunday, it was tough but fun and only takes about 45mins. Give it a go and see what you think, or make up your own and hit the park.  You can check out the Tough Mudder Facebook page for some vids of how these exercises look (and how much I suffer lol). http://www.facebook.com/#!/wallaceboystoughmudders

Rest between exercises kept to no longer than 2 mins

1.       4 sets of 25 Jumping Jacks to warm up (30s rest between sets)

2.       Mini Circuit, Work for 40s then rest for 20s:

·         Wobble Board Squats

·         Push ups with Feet on Wobble Board

·         Dumbbell Swing Squat

·         Go back to top and go again until you have done 3 sets.

3.       5 runs of the Parallel bar

4.       10 sets of 20 Meter Sprints, 20s rest between sets

5.       3 sets of Duck Walk with dumbbell  of 20meaters (1 min rest between sets)

6.       3 sets of Walking Snow lungs for 20m (1 min rest between sets)

7.       3 Sets of Swing plank push ups (just do as many as you can only 3 or 4 for me at the mo)

Big love from the Big Guy.

PS, doing this in the snow was tough tough tough.

Incest - Great for the Quads?

This is how my brother Kris decided to work out his quads during training for the Tough Mudder competition.

It was pretty weird but all for a good cause. He's raising money for Cancer Research so it's worth being humiliated and slightly violated!

Pete and Kris Conditioning Each Other for Tough Mudder

Kris and Pete beating each other last weekend in an attempt to get conditioned.