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FAT_SAMIconIceland08-01-2017 @ 03:07 
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So ... I'm off to Iceland for 5 days
Gonna train at some cool places and get plenty of pics/vids for sugden fans!

Managed to blag this one to the wife by showing her pics of the Northern Lights. If we don't see them I'm gonna be in deep s**t...

If anyone has an address for THOR'S POWER GYM please let me know!

I might be attempting 800lbs raw squat out there on Thursday! Watch this thread and space...
peanutsIcon...08-01-2017 @ 08:35 
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Wow sounds amazing,look forward to the pics and video.f@ck the northern lights
AdamTIcon...08-01-2017 @ 08:45 
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Class!! Hope you smash it!
SteBennettIcon...08-01-2017 @ 09:16 
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Sounds awesome, looking forward to the pics and vids
FazcIcon...08-01-2017 @ 09:53 
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FAT_SAM said:So ... I'm off to Iceland for 5 days
Gonna train at some cool places and get plenty of pics/vids for sugden fans!

Managed to blag this one to the wife by showing her pics of the Northern Lights. If we don't see them I'm gonna be in deep s**t...

If anyone has an address for THOR'S POWER GYM please let me know!

I might be attempting 800lbs raw squat out there on Thursday! Watch this thread and space...


A friend of mine is an IPF coach over there and very much involved in the scene. I'll ask him where the gym is and see if he can get a few of his guys to go along.
Funky_monkeyIcon...08-01-2017 @ 10:06 
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I was waiting for you to say how they're doing an offer on exotic meats.
chalkIcon...08-01-2017 @ 10:51 
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I went to Jakabol, Magnus ver Magnusson's gym, when I was in Reykjavik a few years ago. It was a good gym, as you would expect, but sadly Magnus was away with Thor at a competition.

It may be worth getting someone at your hotel to phone ahead as, unless it's changed since, it's a members only type place and they have keys. I was fortunate that someone was going in as I arrived, we got chatting and he let me come and train. It was a fairly non descript place with nothing outside to indicate what it is.
FAT_SAMIcon...09-01-2017 @ 07:31 
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Thanks guys. I will update this thread with random s**t. Some people may find some of it boring, in that case just skip to the training posts.

So... the flight. I flew from Gatwick at 710am but the flight was delayed so I ended up airborne at maybe 745am. The sun rose gradually over the next 5 minutes... as it does. But, it never got any higher. And indeed after just over an hour of flying (we were well past the Scottish coast by this point), I watched it 'set' again. It remained dark and we arrived into an almost pitch-black Iceland at 1030am. The sun made a half-assed effort at rising before a state of what can only be described as twilight was reached which remained for all of 4 hours. It never got fully bright like it does in the UK. I imagine the sun would be lingering near the horizon all day - hopefully today will be less cloudy so I can observe what happens. This meant it was too cloudy to view the Northern Lights last night, too.
FAT_SAMIcon...09-01-2017 @ 07:34 
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Fazc said:
A friend of mine is an IPF coach over there and very much involved in the scene. I'll ask him where the gym is and see if he can get a few of his guys to go along.


I am squatting in Jakabol on Thursday.
I would, however, like somewhere with good bars to bench either tomorrow or Wednesday. Maybe a different gym so I can see more out here. Where does your friend train? I'm in Reykjavik pretty much in the city centre.
little_aIcon...09-01-2017 @ 08:44 
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What are the prices like Sam? I'm toying with a trip to Reykjavik later this year.
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FAT_SAM said:
I am squatting in Jakabol on Thursday.
I would, however, like somewhere with good bars to bench either tomorrow or Wednesday. Maybe a different gym so I can see more out here. Where does your friend train? I'm in Reykjavik pretty much in the city centre.


Will Magnus be there?
FAT_SAMIcon...09-01-2017 @ 08:54 
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little_a said:What are the prices like Sam? I'm toying with a trip to Reykjavik later this year.


Extortionate mate. Especially with how much I eat.
700 quid gave me 80000kr which I figured would last me 5 days.
It is tough to find dinner for two for less than 10000kr. Thankfully the wife is tiny and doesn't eat much.
I am going to find the market tomorrow- apparently it is very cheap for groceries etc.
ChrisMcCarthyIcon...09-01-2017 @ 09:02 
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What you need to find Sam is the Icelandic version of Wetherspoon's!!
little_aIcon...09-01-2017 @ 09:06 
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Thanks Sam. I'd heard that. Let me know how you go on when you go native.

Up to now I've got easyjet flights listed as £100 return, and an apartment for us all via airbnb @ around £300 each for a week. Not too pricey so far, but we have to live once we're there so it all hangs on that. You planning on a trip to the Blue Lagoon at all? Is transport ok?
little_aIcon...09-01-2017 @ 09:07 
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ChrisMcCarthy said:What you need to find Sam is the Icelandic version of Wetherspoon's!!


Vetherspoonssons?

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