When we are talking about injury prevention for the shoulders or rehabbing exercises for shoulders, the first thing that comes to mind is our rotator cuff muscles. For those of you that don’t know, the rotator cuff is a group of four different muscles comprised of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and the sub scapular.…
Interesting! The more research that goes into resistance training, the more benefits we find out about. The following article was provided by Stuff.co.nz http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/motivate-me/85766835/weightlifting-your-way-to-a-bigger-brain
It would be a huge understatement to say I was more than surprised with the body composition changes made in just one month of high intensity training. If you read part one of this article a long term client kindly volunteered to take part in a high intensity training programme that I designed for her.…
High intensity training first came about in the 1970’s. The man behind it – Arthur Jones believed that to achieve optimum strength and muscle, workouts should be very brief and intense, stressing intensity over repetitions. For upper body 6-10 repetitions and lower body either 8-12 repetitions or 12-20 repetitions, with just one main set taken…
Maintaining good posture as we age can be a difficult proposition. If you have a job that consists of sitting behind a desk for large parts of your day, maintaining good posture can be even more challenging. The average human head weighs just over 3.5kg. When sitting behind a desk your head tends to move…
Part 2 Eating for performance and continued self improvement. It may not always be the training that’s at fault when we are talking about the law of diminishing returns. If you want to give yourself the absolute best chance of seeing self improvement year after year, eating for performance and not just being content with…
For those of you involved in the business of economics you would’ve heard of the law of diminishing returns. For those of us who are not, the definition refers to a point at which the level of profits or benefits gained is less than the amount of money or energy invested. The phrase also applies…
There was a time when high level runners would run and do no other types of training. Coaches believed that more running would produce better results. Times have long since changed. Whether it’s short distance running such as the 100 metre sprint or longer distance like a marathon, resistance training plays a major role in…
Are you the best possible version of you? Do you do all you can do to look your best, so you feel great and are healthy? We don’t live a long time on this planet. So why is it we all don’t want to look and feel the best we possibly can for the relatively…
It’s not uncommon to walk into any gym around the world and see physiques with more upper body development than lower body development. In fact it’s the norm. Why? Two reasons: Legs put great physical demands on your body so people don’t train them as hard or put the required time into developing them properly.…
