One of my favourite ways to stay in shape is through martial arts. If I am training on my own, this can take the form of bag work or drills on the grappling dummy. On other occasions I will get together with some of my like minded friends who also have martial arts experience and [...]
One of my clients is currently training for a very special goal. Stef is planning to ride from Panama City to Granada (Nicaragua) – a distance of some 450 kilometres to help raise money for the Genesis trust. This will be the second time that Stef has taken on such a challenge; a few years [...]
The Retreat Fitness Retreat is an exclusive wellbeing stay away break for those seeking improvements in weight loss or general fitness. We operate retreats across the UK for 4 or 7 days, educating attendee’s in exercise, nutrition, motivation, recovery and general wellbeing. We use a proven method to achieve great results in weight loss and [...]
MMA (mixed martial arts) is one of the fastest growing sports around today thanks to its exciting blend of combat disciplines such as wrestling, kickboxing and jiu-jitsu. MMA fighters are some of the fittest athletes around thanks to their conditioning training. I am a huge fan of the sport and have previous martial arts experience [...]
MMA is one of the fastest growing sports around thanks to its exciting mix of combat arts such as wrestling, ju-jitsu and kickboxing to name just a few. The men and women who take part in this tough sport are some of the fittest and best conditioned athletes around thanks to their training. I have [...]
This times WBW is a dumbbell and barbell workout that is finished off with a short bodyweight challenge. For each of the below exercises perform 3 sets of 10-12 reps unless otherwise stated. Warm up: 5 minutes cardio Dumbbell squat Dumbbell chest press Front lunge with dumbbell bicep curl Barbell bent over row Dumbbell step [...]
Suspension training is one of the latest fitness crazes sweeping the fitness industry. Suspension training takes bodyweight training to the next level by using heavy duty straps and gravity to give you a fantastic all over workout. There are many reasons why suspension training is a great way to train and I have outlined just [...]
This times WBW is a circuit training workout based around the 5 main functions of the human body which are Push, pull, movement, level change and rotation. These principles are used by some of the top strength and conditioning coaches in the world and if it is good enough for them then it is good [...]
Here is a workout I did myself the other day that was short but far from sweet! I only had a short amount of time between clients so after warming up I set my stopwatch for 20 minutes and went about completing as many rounds of the following 5 exercises within the time limit. Barbell [...]
Time for another whole body workout (WBW) and for this one you will need a barbell and a stability ball. For this workout we are looking at a barbell complex which means completing a number of barbell exercises back to back using the same weight. This type of training is excellent for those wanting to [...]
