Here is a workout I have been doing recently with my clients that combines focus pad work, bodyweight and powerbag exercises and finishes with a tough challenge that is bound to send your heart rate through the roof! After warming up doing speed and agility work using mini hurdles and cones you start the workout [...]
Here is a bodyweight workout that I put together for one of my circuit class members who is going away on holiday and wanted something they could do without any equipment. The aim of the session is to complete all of the below exercises back to back without any rest. Spend 30 seconds of each [...]
Here is a drill I use within my MMA fitness class that combines a number of movements together and takes you from the floor to standing and back down again to simulate what can happen multiple times within a fight. For this drill start on the floor and throw 3-4 up kicks into a bag [...]
For this weeks exercise all you will need is one of the most common pieces of equipment found in gyms and health clubs, the basic weight plate. Apart from this you will just need a matted surface (to allow the plate to slide) and some very strong core muscles! To perform this exercise you will [...]
One of the most popular reasons (or excuses) I hear for not training is lack of time. These workouts below can help address this situation as they can be completed in around 30 minutes, with some of them using very little kit so that they can be done at home. I believe that if someone [...]
Here is a workout that uses 2 of my favourite pieces of equipment, the kettlebell and VIPR. The session starts off with a bodyweight core circuit followed by 4 supersets that use 1 kettlebell and 1 VIPR exercise. The workout is finished off with one of the toughest whole body kettlebell exercises, the Turkish get [...]
Exercise of the week this time is influenced by the sport of MMA (mixed martial arts). Ground and pound is a term used when a fighter has knocked their opponent to the floor and is on top throwing punches and elbows, trying to finish the fight either via a knockout or to get the referee [...]
RCT stands for the “Results conditioning test” which is a 10 exercise workout that I have put together to test my clients aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance of the upper and lower body and their core strength and stability. The test uses 10 bodyweight exercises and the idea is to get clients working to [...]
The exercise of the week is an extreme version of the press up that focuses on your chest (particularly the upper chest), shoulders (front deltoids especially) and triceps. It also tests your core stability and balance. To perform it you will need a barbell that is placed on a squat rack or power rack and [...]
This challenge is done over 4 rounds and mixes together strength exercise alongside high intensity aerobic ones. The workout will hit all the major muscles of your chest, back and legs as well as giving you cardio benefits and is a great calorie burner. The challenge itself will take in the region of 30 minutes [...]
