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Monday, 3rd March

Education through exercising is vital in your development. You need to seek out the best ways to achieve often constant moving targets in terms of strength, lung capacity and muscular endurance.

Targets change because a good programme will take you to your initial targets relatively quickly, once you get there you will naturally want to

If you carry on doing the same old thing, not only will you become bored, you will not get the results you really wanted in the first place.

Moving your body in all sorts of different ways is important to constantly test yourself. Doing endless sit ups is not going to do it, and we never do sit ups anymore anyway to get the best out of your core.

Personally I accept the fact that I need to keep learning throughout my career to achieve a better and better results for everyone I train. If I don’t do this, then I become mediocre myself at what I do, and that is unacceptable to me.

There is no reason why you cannot keep changing your own exercise programme, as long as it still has purpose and direction, and it takes you to where you want to go. Don’t do any exercises that you cannot feel or you wonder what benefit they are bringing you.

All the exercises i show everyone should be felt immediately, and the feedback of whoever I am training is ultra-important to see if any adjustments need to be made in that particular movement.

Always keep striving for more by changing things up and make sure there’s a plan to go with it!

Twitt
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Friday, 28th February

If you like to hit certain records all the time in the gym, or in sporting events, then don’t expect to hit them higher all the time without peaking for them, and giving yourself a day’s complete rest (at least) before attempting them.

This is also why most if not all the members of the gym who play sport never train on a Friday, or do very light sessions before a game on a Saturday. This is all about delivering your very best performance on a Saturday and game time.

Since the variety of exercise you now do in the gym will be vast, the overall effect to start with will be to make you more tired than normal because it will be the culmination of many different efforts over demanding exercises.

This is just your body getting used to different movements that require a different amount of energy levels.

Also, the training we do over a week requires three different energy systems due to the different lengths of time we spend doing different exercises, as well as the differing intensity levels we like to use too.

Research has shown time after time though, that if you are prepared to put the effort in doing well thought out exercises to suit your needs and performance levels, then with the amount of rest factored in too, then you will be able to smash through your previous personal bests!

All of this shows there is methodology used in your training, rather than just a “hit and hope” mentality that never works for anyone longer term, and increases the chance of injury greatly.

You need to make sure you plan is right, hitting all the right areas, and making sure your performance gets constantly better!

Twitt
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Sunday, 15th February

I get a lot of rehab questions because I have helped a lot of people get back doing what they love doing, when perhaps they thought they could never do it again. Most people know we differentiate ourselves from every gym because we create intensive programmes that always account for any movement/injury/limitations the individual has.

If the person I am training asks me for advice, then I will of course give it. If they say that they cannot do a movement because it hurts, then I tell them definitely don’t do that movement until they can move freely without pain again.

If people ask me if I’m out somewhere in a supermarket for example for advice, they usually will make what they want of the advice, and find what best suits them out of my answer because they are usually looking for me to validate what they already think-they are shocked when I never do that.

Some people will tell me their pain goes away when they warm up, but comes back the next day. I tell them again, if something hurts when you do it, YOU DO NOT DO IT UNTIL THE PAIN GOES AWAY!!

If you are injured, or are having a lot of pain from exercise, then your exercise programme is SERIOUSLY wrong and DAMAGING your health.

You have to distinguish from what is normal and what is dangerous.

You should be in some discomfort at the end of set of weight training for example.

This shows you are advancing and pushing yourself.

You may get a 1-2 days of soreness after a particularly tough session now and again, but it doesn’t need to happen every time!
YOU SHOULD NEVER have prolonged muscle soreness or joint soreness though.

If you cant do an exercise normally, you have reduce your range of motion for example, then you are in trouble already.

The rule I always use is that I want to keep the individuals I train HEALTHY and free from injury, and to move in ways they never thought possible.

Please use common sense and work with someone who is used to doing rehab without hurting you!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 11th February

Everyone wants to practice things they are good at, what they excel in and its human nature to look at your strengths.

Our training should make us think what we are struggling on, what our weaknesses are, what we need to really improve. What our injuries, our past injuries or breakages when it comes to joints and bones? All these things need addresses before old age comes, because it gets even harder then but still great advancements can be done even then!

This is not a negative, its only going to improve what we like doing in the first place.

If we like to play rugby or football to the best of our ability for example, then working on our weaker areas will only enhance our performance.

Just being stronger with weights or just being better on the treadmill won’t guarantee a better sporting performance, it will help A LOT, but all the stuff we do in our training will give you all the little “add ons” that will make you the difference between okay at a sport, to excelling at it.

The top athletes are the ones who do the little things to improve, this what separates a great athlete from an average one.

You have every opportunity to use the latest science of training to take you wherever you want to be.

The only thing stopping you would be falling for the trap of doing the same old thing all the time. If you do the same old thing, you’re going get the same old results.

We are looking to get the very best out of you, so start searching where you can get even more from your training, more out of your nutrition, and how you can get an even more positive state of mind to see you through the ups and downs of getting into top shape!

Twitt