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 [...]
New Year’s Goal Setting Tips
Beginning a new year is such a positive time. Whether we break out a brand-new calendar or scroll over to the month of January [...]
9 Ways To Stay Healthy This Christmas
1. Don’t Sit Down All Day We know every Christmas special under the sun will be showing on the TV, It will be [...]
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. [...]
Self-efficacy Plays a Powerful Role in Health and Fitness
It’s quite common to hear of people taking up health and fitness endeavours for the sake of improving their personal self-confidence, which for whatever reason [...]
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Russian Lifting Competition Some of the Conan Team at the recent weightlifting meet with the Russian powerhouses Vlad Rigert and Dmitry Lapikov, plus the legend [...]
Breathe your way to better performance
Recent US research suggests that daily exercises to strength-train your inhalation muscles – and thereby reduce their need for oxygen – can improve performance during [...]
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 [...]
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Team Rigert Russian Olympic Weightlifting Show 2016
Boomers’ muscle atrophy may be slowed
US scientists have furthered their knowledge of age-related muscle atrophy, which they hope will lead to a new drug to decelerate age-related muscle loss. Muscle [...]