Recovering from Injury – 7 Recovery Tips & 7 Ways To Train Around Injuries
When you push yourself to train hard in the gym, no doubt you will feel sore the next day or the day after. Therefore, [...]
Injury Prevention – 4 Strategies that should be included in every workout.
Injuries can halt your training progress, but an injury doesn’t necessarily mean you have to stop training altogether; and there are many things to incorporate [...]
Progress is Not Linear
If there is one thing you should focus on, it’s that you should be making continual progress towards your goals. You will rarely start [...]
Fitness, Resilience and Mental Health
The proliferation of the wellness agenda (and industry) over the last 10 years has closely matched the spread of mental illness in the western world. [...]
Adaptations to Training
Below is a summary of the major adaptations to training, all of which encompass different benefits and often for different purposes. Obviously, an Olympic Shot-Putter [...]
Why do we train?
Training is about so much more than just “getting fit” or “losing weight” or at least it should be. As a trainer, I see people [...]
Small differences make the difference.
As I've matured in my professional career I put more and more emphasis on the small things, which often seems like the basics, to present the greatest opportunity [...]
Relationship Between Maximal Squat Strength & Sprint Speed
In 2009, in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research a study was published on the relationship between an athlete’s max squat strength and their [...]
Setting Personal Goals
Many people list exercise as one of their personal goals or New Year resolutions with good intentions but in many cases this does not end [...]
“HIIT” What’s the low-down on High Intensity Interval Training?
The idea of HIIT, also known as High Intensity Intermittent Exercise (HIIE), is to alternate between higher intensity bouts of work, and lower, resting levels [...]