Saturday 29 September 2012

Finals Week

FINALS WEEK



Hey everyone hope you had a great weekend. It has been an exciting week with all the footy fever going around the mighty red and white swanies won the AFL grand final yesterday, it was one of the best games I have ever watched, We watched it at the Nash Pub in Paddington and we were lucky enough to get  good seats right in front of the big screen.


After a long week of work, my first day off  was a cracker of a day and decided to go for a stand up paddle with Kerrbox,Browny and Chris down at Bondi..

Beardy's Rant ( rubbish on the beach )





Cam and Maxi fitness video.

This week we are on the outdoor equipment overlooking Tamarama beach. Due to having a few drinks over the weekend celebrating the footy finals myself and Cam are a bit hungover :) but I promised you all a video.The session was body weight exercises, for all of you at home you can do these exercises without equipment see below.
  • 10-12 wide grip chin ups
  • 20 lunges
  • 10-12 push ups
  • 10-12 reverse crunch
  • 10-12 reverse grip chins
  • 10-12 squat jumps
  • 10-12 dips
  • 10-12 hanging knee raises
You do 3 sets of the above , for the the elite you can do 5 sets.





Gonzo having a dance 







"Action may not always bring you happiness, But there is no happiness without action"

Hope you all enjoyed this blog 
have a good and safe week.

Cheers
MAXI

Monday 24 September 2012

The big 21



Hello everyone and welcome back.





21


Some of you may Know I Turn 21 this Wednesday the 26th of September, On Saturday I had my celebration at the Bucket list Bondi beach. It was a very Good day, I had a few beers some good laughs and some very tipsy moments.







Beardy's Rant

Due to Being back on the beach full time this week i did not have enough time to get a fitness video of myself and Cam. so instead This week I am going to introduce a new segment on my blog.

I introduce to you Beardy every couple of weeks I'm going to get a rant off beardy and post it up, this week the rant is about "people swimming in front of the dangerous current signs".



If you have any rants you want myself and beardy to bring up in my next blog, send a tweet to @IAMBEARDY or myself and we will talk about it next time. I know this post is short but ill try and gather more things this week for the next post. 
next blog will include the following.

  • Cams fitness tip's
  • Beardys Rant
  • Funny video of the week
  • things that are happening during the week
  • happy quote

I hope you enjoy this video as much as Yatesy and I did :)





I hope you all enjoy the week stay positive and be happy. Glad you are all enjoying the blog I like to at least try and make you all little but happy :)




Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.



Lots of love 
MAXI



Tuesday 18 September 2012

On A Quick Note

Welcome back everyone I hope you all had a great weekend. I hope you enjoy this Post.



After coming back from being a casual lifeguard during the winter months I am back on the beach full time for the next 9 months. It has been a very eventful week unfortunately not for the best on Sunday myself and Kerr box had responded to a serious spinal injury at the north end of the beach, he did the injury surfing, members of the public had carried him out of the water. As we were assessing him he had no feeling from chest down. Paramedics had arrived and we packaged him up and carried him to the ambulance. Later that evening we had heard that he fractured his (c7) in his neck and he was going to have an 8 hr operation to try and help the damaged spinal cord, I know it’s going to be a long recovery for him but he is a strong bloke and my thoughts and prayers are with him.

On a better note it has been a good start to the season, some funny moments already and it’s only been a couple of days in. The weather has been great and the beaches are starting to get busier. 








Myself and a few of the boys are supporting a fellow lifeguards campaign visit 

http://zipit.org.au/page/view/53408
Suicide and mental illness, Me and the boys are supporting the Zip it campaign,
 it's
 a fantastic light hearted way to raise awareness about such a sadly neglected topic.

 Funds raised will be shared by: Black Dog Institute, headspace, Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Australia. Click on the link, support the lads,

 support a good cause and maybe save a few lives in the process. Thanks.




"Hman" and myself getting carried away 5 min before the end of the day.



                        Quick Note Before Outdoor session.



                                      Outdoor session. 




I hope you all have a great week any questions regarding training or healthy eating Comment below or send a tweet to myself or @mytrainercam.
Have a safe and positive week

"There will be a moment in your life where you’ll just want to give up but you must push yourself to continue its those moments that make us stronger and make that next moment just a little easier. never give up on yourself and others will never give up on you"

until next time all the best 

Maxi 


Thursday 13 September 2012

Sportsmans day






This week we had all our summer lifeguards back and ready for summer every year a week before the summer roster starts we have our lifeguard induction.
 Monday and Tuesday was mostly workshops and the Wednesday was our Annual Sportsman's day, It was a great day with lots of laughs and skill's and was good to see harries in pink undies (cough cough). Whippet and Yatesy have won the event 3 years in a row they are very hard to beat I don't know how but it still blows myself and all the boys away, Harries and his team mate Paul got last place it wasn't just the pink undies that had lost it for them Harries has a hard time concentrating in general not to mention the events we did on the day. In order the events were
  • Stand up paddle race down at Rose bay
  • 100mt sprint
  • Penalty shootout
  • Big blow up ball race (kinda like a hamster ball)
  • Tennis
  • 9 Holes of Golf
  • Darts

First event Stand up Paddle Race Team Shot



This is the Big Blow Up Ball Race It was to much fun !!!!!!




                                                             Park Shot


                                     Penalty Shoot Out


Golf

The team just before Darts



My partner was Quiggers we did pretty well we ended up getting second out of the twelve teams.


Holistic Fitness Gym Fox Studios.

As some of you may know I train at a gym in Fox studios called Holistic Fitness my mate Cam owns it and he has let me do a little video to show you all this amazing gym. through the winter I lost 5 kilos from hard training, commitment, and healthy eating, for all of you at home I am going to post at least one video a week of a exercises and some healthy eating tips so I can make you feel better about yourself, I hope you all enjoy feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions.

                                                                   Tour Of The Gym



A Body Weight Session "Staying Alive"




"Quote"

" Every step leads you down a path to somewhere,
The decision we make on what path to take
Makes us who we are today!
Make it happy and positive"



I hope you all enjoyed this blog.
:)
MAXI



Monday 10 September 2012

FLYING HIGH


                            Flying  High


Welcome to my second post
 I hope everyone had a great weekend, If you were down at Bondi this weekend you would have not only have seen one kite you would have seen thousands it was the Festival Of The Winds, It was a very busy weekend not only for the average punter going to the beach, it was also very busy for the Lifeguards. On the Saturday, the kite area was all fenced off  and the professional amateur kite flyer's got there kite projects up for the big test run before the big day.




While all the kite flyer's were doing their thing, Harries and the boys were having a laugh about the kite festival.




Having a sing and laugh with harries about the big blue bear.


A prank on pack up Kerr Box gets Jesse






As I got to work on the Sunday morning Kerr box had informed me and the team that a man had  fallen off a cliff the night before up near Dover heights the police had been searching for him all night for the people that Don’t know Dover Heights,  it is approx 2km north from Bondi Beach. At around 9am we got a call to help with the search myself and harries launched the Jet ski and started our search for the missing man, as we were searching we got another call from Bondi central saying that there was another job for us. While all of this was happening the police located the missing man and retrieved him.

 The second job we got was a report that an outrigger with 5 people on board was sinking about 2km off north bondi point. As we were driving the Jet Ski to the incident the police rescue launch boat had turned up with us and was picking the patients up, they were all safe and the outrigger was fully submerged under the water. The police asked if we could help retrieve the submerged outrigger with the police boats rope. Harries turned straight around and said to me, "you're in mate!" I said to him "you're kidding me?" so I put on a brave face and acted like a hero in front of all the patients and the police and dived in even though I was absolutely Shitting myself.

As I swam up to the submerged outrigger I put the looped rope around the outrigger's bow I then climbed in to it and started to try and do lots of knots, the police were yelling out "do a bowline knot" I replied "if you don’t know knots tie lots" and so I did. I then gave the thumbs up and dived back in to the very deep and murky water, harries picked me up while my fingers were crossed, hoping that my lots of knots would hold up not surprisingly they held up myself and harries were shocked :). And in the distance I saw the big police boat and the outrigger cruising back to Sydney harbour, we then headed back to Bondi to a wall off kites and thousands of people and it was only 10.30am.


Through out the day the crowds and kites got bigger and bigger, there was close to 25,000 down at Bondi mid afternoon on the beach.






This week after 3 months break our summer seasonal, temp-part time and casual lifeguards are back on the sand not only at Bondi, but Bronte and Tamarama as well for the next 9months, we have a great team and it’s been pretty much the same team for 4 years. We have a new addition new trainee "Taco" this season, they are forecasting a very dry and hot summer no doubt we are going to have a busy season, bring it on.




I hope everyone has a great and safe week and stay tuned for the next post, 


"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."


until next time :)
MAXI

Thursday 6 September 2012

WELCOME TO MY FIRST EVER BLOG..........


Hope you are all enjoying your day / night. 
I will try and make it interesting and funny :) 
Bare with me i'm not much of a writer but its a start /!!!!!!!!!`


OK lets start with who i am, I am 21 in 19 days 26th of September , My full name is Trent Robert Maxwell ( nickname is Maxi ) i live in North Bondi , I have been a ocean lifeguard for Waverley council for 6 years, i love my job. in my spare time you may find me hanging around the beach surfing or training or having a skim latte at a cafe,i have 5 tattoos, i love to travel, live for the moment, I try and be a positive and happy person most of the time, one of the things i want to blog about in future posts is to try and make you all smile,laugh, feel positive and most of all happy.







I will be posting Pictures, videos , quotes, experiences, good times - bad times. stay tuned for next blog.



" Live for today and not Tomorrow,
Live for the now and whats here,
Stop living for what maybe or what may never come,
Live for the day already here"


UNTIL NEXT TIME ........

:)

.Maxi.      7.9.12