Ruth qualified last Saturday as a REPS II Fitness Instructor and (after a tough interview we are pleased to announce that she will be working with us this summer in this capacity.

She is probably already better known to most as the face of Ibiza Swim, having spent the last year teaching swimming Ibiza wide.

We are fairly confident she will be a valued member of our team, and no, all my male clients cannot swap to Ruth instead, before you get any ideas

There is a fairly tough physical entrance level and 9 weeks and counting until test day..

But she is young and bright and determined, and in generally good shape and health and will respond and recover extremely well so we’re feeling very positive about the prospects.

So we’re off and away 3 times per week, have a mock test set up for tomorrow to gauge exactly how far we have to go, and will update with progress, this should be really interesting.

I couldnt help chuckling when comparing to our lifestyle these days, of amazing sunrises over beautiful beaches and riding the roads and trails every week all through the “winter” here

This was written in April 05 in the UK. ..Hope you enjoy

Amalgam Man Locksbottom

Ok, so it’s not quite Ironman, but today I had to go to the dentist and as the car’s being serviced and it’s only 18 miles away I took a gamble the rain would hold off and took the bike & rode there.

All was good on the way out, a few nice long hills to get the burn going, even almost had to stand up approaching the brow of one of them, good stuff.

The dentistry was ok, well averagely uncomfortable, with a few pain twinges, Ok by standards I have been subjeced to before might be a better description.

As I was leaving with a face full of lidocaine and amalgam, the receptionist said “I hope you dont get too wet..” and it pretty much all went downhill from there.

For a little while it was literally a long long downhill, and now starting to drizzle, and I pretty much have racing slicks on so was taking it fairly easy. About 3 miles into the return journey the rain got heavier, so I skidded up under a big tree and took the opportunity to have the lunch I hadnt had because of my 3.15 appointment. The time was approx 4pm now.

Absolutely starving, I wolfed down my roll, immediately swallowing my new temporary filling in the process, and then as the rain backed off a bit, ..the gods are smiling on me I thought, so I hopped back on the bike, upshifted and 2 hard cranks later was wondering what was going on at the front end.. ‘kin puncture!! ..flat as a slow hedgehog. Bollox! .. 2nd puncture in 2 days meant I had no spare tube now either.

Anyway, I thought there’s a Halfords abit further down the road and so set off on the walk of shame. ..At which point it really starts bucketing down hard. Perfect.

So, no Halfords, it’s moved, gone, not there anymore, & so a further 6 miles later, soaked to the core, I just caught Sidcup Cycles before they closed and bought 2 new tubes. 5.30pm.

I hastily changed the offending front tube, with both myself & the guy in the shop checking the tyre for the cause, with no sign of anything there.

I got back on the bike again with a mere 10 miles to go, the rain’s stopped, and f**k me, 200 metres later, FSSSS!! again!!

This time I can SEE a hole in the tyre and the air’s all hissing hissing, hissed, out. And then with only another ten miles to walk, all the shops properly shut now, it really starts bucketing down again.

I got home at 7.00 pm.

..So anyway I’m looking on the positive side of it all, and am christening this as a new kind of multisport, a combined test of endurance, fortitude and patience, called “Amalgam Man” - It’s not as long as Ironman, but more of a test of where your limits of patience and shouting begins, and comprises of:

20 Mile bike, 30 mins dental work, 4 Mile bike 16 mile walk with bike.

..granted there wasn’t technically a swim involved, but for the majority of the afternoon, you wouldnt have been able to tell that by looking at me.

..roll on Ibiza and leaving this shit UK weather behind.

Firstly, a big shout to our friends over at Ibiza Now Magazine who mentioned us and our love of fitness training outdoors in the March 2008 issue.

They talk about some stuff we were blogging about earlier in the year, the therapeutic power of getting yourself fit outdoors in beautiful places instead of dingy sweaty gyms, and the silliness of running on a treadmill looking at videos of beaches or woods, when you have the most amazing beaches and countryside all around us, and the perfect outdoor training temperatures throughout the winters here.

Gym goers in Ibiza…. …..Why??!!

We will be leaving a permanent link to this page at the side of the blog and will be updating this page regularly and hope that this helps to find the stuff youre interested in. I’ve tried to make the blog as coulourful as possible with pics and videos wherever possible. Hope you enjoy.

26 Jan Swimming for Fitness in Ibiza with Ibiza Swim

21 Jan More Outdoor Fitness in Ibiza

17 Jan Fitness Training in Ibiza

16 Jan Outdoor Fitness Ibiza Style

14 Jan Fitness, Sunrises and Sunsets in Ibiza

06 Jan Healthy Outdoor Activities in Ibiza - Paintball Lounge Party

Happy New Year from Ibiza Personal Trainer !!

15 Dec 07 - The Colours of Ibiza - Slideshow

14 Dec 07 - Model’s Fitness Tricks, Lose Weight Fast like the Pros

15 Nov 07 - Sparta & Fitness Spartan Style

07 Nov 07 - The Glove, Darpa and the Future of Fitness?

25 Oct 07 Innerlight Supergreens - Skeptical? - Yep !

16 Oct 07 “Superfoods” - A Closer look and the Definitive List

15 Oct 07 - “Please don’t do it like this” - Funny Gym Accident Videos

13 Oct 07 - “If you can do this..” Extreme functional strength videos

10 Oct 07 - Our Top 3 Fitness Blogs

10 Oct 07 “Carbophobia” - More “Low Carbs” Nonsense

29 Jul 07 Whole Body Vibration Training Revisited

23 Jul 07 “Superfoods” (1)

22 Jul 07 Vibration Training, Real Benefits or Expensive Gimmick?

20 Jul 07 - A Week in the Life of Ibiza Personal Trainer

14 Jul 07 - Health & Skepticism & “Bodytalk”

14 Jul 07 - Metabolic Types and “Metabolic Typing” Diets

03 Jul 07 - Exercise is the Best Medicine

29 Jun 07 - Excellent Article on Building Muscle Mass

27 Jun 07 - Fraudulent, Dangerous and very funny Piece of exercise Equipment, only $15,000

23 Jun 07 - Weights and Metabolism

14 Jun 07- Does Your Personal Trainer look like he even Trains Himself?

28 May 07 - Exercise Outdoors as Therapy

31 May 07 - Outdoor Therapy Continued

23 Jan 07 - Ibiza Personal Trainer - Interval Training

31 Dec 06 - Ibiza Personal Trainer - Job Satisfaction

That should about cover it for 2007, we have a load of new ideas for 2008, to make this worthy of being called Web 2.0, so watch this space.

Over and out

Kevsta

The company is www.ibizaswim.com and they have just launched their new blog HERE. Please stop by and say Hi when you get a moment. Hopefully the blog will be as successful and popular as the swimming lessons have been.

Most Sunday afternoons we do a free bike ride session with any of our existing Clients who want to partake. This week there were just 3 of us, myself and 2 stunning blondes and we rode the Ibiza Ciclo Turismo Route 11 which is a fairly challenging 38km mountain bike and off road route through some of the most stunning countryside and mountain tracks Ibiza has to offer. It was about 3 hours worth with some quite intense climbing on rough ground, but worth every moment of the legburn. Have a look at some of the snaps to see what Ibiza Personal Trainer Outdoor Fitness is all about.

Join us next Sunday

Look what you’re missing, see you all out there tomorrow!!