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Weight Training and Mental Health
When designed appropriately weight training can be beneficial in stimulating many physical changes such as strength, mass, and power increases. It can also help positive impact physical conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, and muscular dysfunctions. More recently, weight training and mental health has been studied and the psychological effect it has too; reducing depressive symptoms […]
Read articleThoughts On Post Workout Recovery
Whilst much emphasis is placed on nutrition and training related interventions in achieving your goals, it could be argued that enhancing recovery strategies is just as important. Improving post workout recovery may facilitate greater volumes of training, increased frequency, or simply higher quality movement during regular training. So how can we increase the speed at […]
Read articleUpper Back Exercises For Boxing
As promised last week, this blog focuses on some of the exercises I’m doing to strengthen my delts, lats and pec major as part of my on going training. If you missed last week’s blog on shoulder girdle exercises click here, in the meantime stay tuned for some more upper back exercises for boxing. In […]
Read articleShoulder Girdle Exercises For Boxing
If you read my blog last week, you’ll know that I am currently undergoing 8 weeks of boxing training for a Pink Collar Boxing Match I have entered on the 1st October. As I’m returning back to fitness after injury, I’m finding training really pushes me – it’s awesomely hard work (and feels so good […]
Read articleLower Leg Strengthening For Runners
Following on from one of my previous blogs about strengthening the upper leg, here is an article covering some exercises for lower leg strengthening for runners. By balancing the strength and mobility in this area we can help prevent, and manage, common running complaints such shin splints or Achilles tendinopathy. As in the previous blog […]
Read articleMy Pink Collar Boxing Challenge!
It’s an understatement to say that the last 6-9 months have been a challenge for me – both physically and mentally. My back pain returned with absolutely debilitating results. I had to stop 99% of my physical activity, simply because there were days where getting out of bed was almost impossible. Movement has often been severely […]
Read articleRugby Strength Workout
Rugby is a game epitomised by strength and power. Being strong and powerful will do you well in this game, but being strong in specific positions and movement patterns will set you up to be a greater player. The usual strength movements are great for developing a general strength in the key muscle groups such […]
Read articleUpper Leg Strengthening for Runners
Do you suffer from chronic or returning hip, knee, or ankle pain when running? Often these “overuse” or gradual onset injuries are related to imbalances in muscular strength and soft tissue flexibility. This article will offer some prehabilitation/rehabilitation exercises to help strengthen commonly weak muscles and “iron out” those tight tissues. As a runner it […]
Read articleWhat’s Your Name Workout
Sometimes it’s good to mix up your training up a little. So here is a great way of doing just that and adding a bit of fun to your workouts. HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is always a great to fit into your training to help improve fitness and drop body fat. So here is […]
Read articleCompetitive Fat Burning Workout
There’s nothing better than a bit of friendly competition – especially when it comes to exercise! Here’s a great fat burning workout for you to do with your friend(s) or partner and it’s all body weight so there are really no excuses! This is HIIT at its best. This is a challenging full body work out so […]
Read articleInterval vs Steady State Cardio
I get many questions from clients asking which method of training is best for them to do when considering interval vs steady state cardio. My first question to them in response to this, is what are your specific goals? Before I cover some of the research into these training methods here are some considerations to help […]
Read articlePosture Advice Part 3 – Lordosis
Did you know that 8 out of 10 people will suffer with non-specific lower back pain – that’s pain which cannot be attributed to spinal structural problems or infection. It’s a scary number – so why aren’t we doing more to help stop the pain from occurring in the first place? It’s probably because as […]
Read articleTop 5 Exercises for Running Injuries
The world of running opens us up a vast list of common injuries that can be hugely debilitating on not only our training but also our lives in general. Many of these injuries tend to be progressive and chronic such as medial tibial stress syndrome (shin splints). Often these injuries have some ties to running […]
Read articlePosture Advice Part 2 – Forward Shoulder Posture
We saw last week that slouching, long distance car driving or sitting at a desk working on a computer for the majority of the day, can cause forward head position. It won’t surprise you to know then that if you do any of these things, it’s not just forward head posture that you need to […]
Read articleBeach Ready Ab Workout
Summer is well under way so if you have got an escape to a sunny climate organised why not smash your abdominals with this 6-pack sculpting ab workout? When it comes to working your abs, performing hundreds of sit ups is not the answer, test your abs like you would any other muscle. I also […]
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