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Jack Thomas is the founder and CEO of BASE - Asia's Gym of the Year - and the host of the Fitness Business Asia Podcast.

Bangkok Fun Run @ Lumphini Park April 27th 2013

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We are organizing a fun run at Lumphini Park in Bangkok on Saturday 27th April 2013. We have both a 5km and 10km run with prizes for the top 3 in both races.lumphini park run bangkok

Entrance is 500 baht, or 400 baht as an early bird rate before April 8th. All participants get an awesome limited edition blue LAB shirt (see pics below).

Registration is 6:30am, warm up and prep at 6:50am and the race will kick off at 7:00am sharp.

With just over 3 weeks to go now’s the time to hit the training hard. Today I did my first run for a while, and it wasn’t too pretty!

the lab fun run shirts lumphiniGood luck, and see you on the 27th

My blueprint for 2013

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I’m not a huge believer in strict, regimented new year resolutions and rarely make them myself. However, 2013 is going to be a big year for me so I took my 10 day break to have a think about the direction I’d like to go in this year, and some habits I’d like to continue and form… not just in 2013, but for life.

Below is a list of things I’d like to achieve, ideas I want to develop and thoughts on how I want the year to pan out.

The only one that I absolutely will make sure I do is the last one:

Get a new apartment where i’m happy and comfortable by march 1 (have already done this one!)

Purchase an awesome bed, sheets and pillows. This is important, seeing as I spend a 3rd of my life there.

Get 7 hours quality sleep each day, preferably 8+

Update bangkokfitness.com at least once every 2 weeks

Continually improve flexibility and mobility

Sit down as little as possible

Move around as much as possible

Do yoga at least once a week

Eat natural real food as often as possible. Keep processed food and sugar to a minimum.

When I eat badly, make sure it tastes damn good

Improve my Thai language

Get out of Bangkok into natural and beautiful surroundings once a month

Spend lots of time in the sun

Spend less time on social networks and more time actually socializing

Call people more (rather than message)

Surround myself with positive, interesting and inspiring people

Be a positive, interesting and inspiring person

Run 100m in sub-12.5

Run 400m in sub 1 minute

Run 5000m in sub 20 minutes

Do all 3 of the above at the same time; don’t achieve one at the expense of another

Try new things

Do a muscle up

Continue to make The LAB a success and a great place to be and train

Stay as close to 80kg as possible and within 10-15% body fat – my optimum composition and weight for peak performance

Only drink water to rehydrate (with maybe some lime)

Limit coffee to 2 cups a day (down to one ideally)

Only drink alcohol to the point of having fun and being able to fully function the next day

Practice intermittent fasting

Do things, don’t talk about doing them

Read through this list once a week

8 Facebook Fitness Pages You Should ‘Like’

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Companies pay huge sums of money to marketing companies and Facebook to build up their number of ‘likes’. However, very few of these pages actually offer anything other than the opportunity to be spammed at.

Facebook’s business model is largely built on people ‘liking’ companies’ profiles and then becoming a marketing puppet for them. This is what Facebook’s (huge) value is based on.

However, if I’m going to like something on Facebook, I want something in return. I’m greedy like that.

So today I’m suggesting you streamline your Facebook experience by recommending you ‘unlike’ Nike and Gatorade, and like these informative fitness based pages instead.

Most of the pages are offering something for sale somewhere, but they give a lot back in return.

Just Eat Real Food

When it comes to diet and nutrition, we could gain a lot by living the JERF (Just Eat Real Food) way.

Brad Pilon

Brad is at the forefront of Intermittent Fasting (IF) and his book Eat Stop Eat has played a big part in the current IF explosion of interest. He often status updates his general musings on nutrition and training, and I highly respect and value his opinions and thoughts.

Yo Elliot

Elliot Hulse believes you should strive to become ‘the strongest version of yourself’. If you’re going to live your life by a saying, I think this is a pretty good one. He posts videos on youtube pretty much daily on strengthening yourself physically, mentally and spiritually. Some of his vids have got a bit random recently, but that’s all part of the fun.

Chef Buff

Like Elliot, Omar offers regular youtube videos on all things fitness. His videos are well presented and to the point, and offer a wealth of solid information.

Jason Ferrugia

Jason is at the peak of strength and conditioning coaching. His articles are no-bullshit, say-it-as-it-is.

Elite Strength and Conditioning

I can’t quite work out whether I find this guy annoying or not. His tongue-in-cheek approach might not be for everyone, but the information he offers is solid and kind of funny/annoying. Regular videos are posted on exercise (good) and life (random).

The Sam Effect

Sam’s site isn’t very active at the moment, but I feel I had to include this one as I think the articles are incredibly informative and inspiring. Have a trawl through the archives if you want to learn something about diet, training and positive living.

Bangkok Fitness

Finally, you should of course like our page! You’ll be informed of new articles on health and fitness in Bangkok as well as general fitness articles, like this one. The page will be more active in the new year along with a relaunch of the site.