Yes I'm sure most people on this forum would be more likely to link my name with "Amature" and "Teen" but no, it's true, I'm currently about to begin training for the challenge of my life.
The fight being September 29th, 4 days after my 36th birthday, so there's not a lot of time, training will be three times a week via the Ultra MMA associates in Belfast.
Ive begun doing a video blog with my goal being obviously to win the fight but above all to raise £2000 for Cancer research UK. Please £1 or £5 anything helps and your gonna get regular updates of me knocking my nuts in over next 8 weeks.
Now if you know me, you know I'm NOT a fit person, not into healthy lifestyles and no into getting up at 6.30am to go for a run. So your gonna see me in pain, a LOT of pain as I struggle with this.
Ive taken images here of myself as part of the process, taken a few days ago, why because I have always tried to hide my body. Years ago I was 22 stone and have since managed to get it down, in the new year I ballooned to 108kg again with a combination of emotional problems and being laid off.
Thankfully the Couch to 5k process has helped me and I'm now 96.7kg as well as its helped me gain a level of fitness that I've not had in 20 years. At only 5 foot 9 also, I don't hide the weight well.
Why am I doing this, I've lost family to Cancer, and I got the all clear from throat cancer (for now) in February and that's why I'm doing this, to help others with treatment and research to prevent it all.
So now here's my video blog, this is the 3rd in the series with videos of my physical training starting later in the week, the others can be found on my you tube account also where everything will be uploaded.
If you can spare anything please donate, I've set up a just giving page, if you want to offer me help or something that might help me out over the next 8 and half weeks I will take anything I can get.
I will see no money from this, I'm buying my own kit also, paying for all my own training and so on, so follow the YouTube channel, that's where almost everything will be shared along with updates on my just giving page.
Colin "Highlander" Robson
Video 3
https://youtu.be/HW-XCWOGL08
Video 2
https://youtu.be/YFsMC9hC3eQ
Video 1 (sorry I had just eaten some nuts before filming this one)
https://youtu.be/JPeOkfj4tzY
Donate to Cancer research here -
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraisi...ingeorgerobson
Updates will follow folks, and thanks in advance to all of the 75 zt club for their support.