This series of posts looks at some of my favourite and most effective exercises that I use on a regular basis within my personal training sessions. For each of the exercises I will look at correct technique and teaching points, other variations of the exercise and then list some sample workouts. For this first post [...]
This challenge uses 3 pieces of cardio equipment that are the most commonly found in health clubs, the treadmill; rower and upright cycle. The only other pieces of equipment you will need are a barbell and a bench or step box. The challenge mixes high intensity aerobic work alongside high repetition resistance work to give [...]
Today Marlon was accompanied to training by one of his teammates from the Devils Pit MMA gym. Since there were two of them I decided to make today’s session circuit based and have them working for 3×5 minute rounds to help simulate an MMA bout. Round 1 would be upper-body focused where as the second [...]
This workout mixes Kettlebell and bodyweight exercises together to create a session that will get your heart and lungs working, burn plenty of calories and help to improve muscular endurance and tone. The aim is to use the same Kettlebell throughout the session and complete all the exercises back to back without any rest. Once [...]
Since our last training session, Sam has been to the gym a couple of times by himself and has followed the same kind of training methods as he has been using at Results. Sam has focused his workouts more around circuit training and has also started to incorporate kettlebell exercises into his routines.
For today’s session [...]
For tonight’s session we started to introduce more explosive type movements to help improve speed and power, alongside our strength exercises. The power movements were performed at maximum intensity for around 20-30 seconds while we completed 6-10 reps for each of the strength exercises.
Warm up: Tonight’s warm up involved body weight movements such as squats with rotation, [...]
For today’s training session we were still focusing on strength work basing the workout around compound exercises such as deadlifts and squats as well as introducing some more sport specific moves such as the press-up with knee strikes.
We warmed up using a mixture of medicine ball exercises such as swings, rotations and lunges with rotations [...]
This workout mixes plyometric exercises along with high repetition resistance exercises to give you a session that will help you to improve your cardio fitness, muscular endurance and stamina as well as burning plenty of calories.
All you need to do this workout is a barbell and a step box. The aim is to complete 45 [...]
This week was Sam’s second session at Results. Since he said he had enjoyed our first session together and had felt the effects afterwards I decided we would do the same type of workout. Again we would work through a 4-exercise circuit that would target the major muscle groups of the back, legs and chest. [...]
In this post I will look at a 4-6 week training programme that I did recently with one of my clients. The programme is designed to help increase muscle size (hypertrophy) and the workouts are based around compound free weight exercises such as clean and presses, hang cleans, deadlifts etc. My client trained with me [...]
