The exercise of the week this time will work the major muscles of your shoulder as well as involving the stabilising muscles and the core. To perform this exercise grab an Olympic barbell and place your right hand at the end of the bar and place your left hand just on the outside of your [...]
If your aims and goals are to increase muscle size and definition then this programme could be for you. The programme splits the body up over 3 training days so that each session you train 2 muscle groups, one large muscle such as chest, back and legs and one smaller muscle group like biceps. By [...]
The dumbbell snatch is a version of the Olympic lift, the snatch, performed with a dumbbell in one hand. You move the dumbbell from the floor to above your head in one explosive movement.
The dumbbell snatch is a full body movement and most of the major muscle groups come into play, particularly legs, shoulders and [...]
This time we look at another compound barbell exercise, the deadlift. The deadlift targets the muscles of the posterior chain (hamstrings, glutes, lower back) and like the squat is another must do exercise to include within your training if your goals are increased muscle size or strength gains.
Many people avoid the deadlift due to a number [...]
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 [...]
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 series of posts will follow the progress of Marlon as he trains for an upcoming Semi-pro cage fight at the beginning of May. Marlon will be training with me twice per week alongside his current MMA sessions. The first few weeks we will be focusing on basic strength work using large compound lifts such [...]
Many people head to the gym with the sole aim of increasing their muscle size and strength but fail to reach their goals. This could be down to a number of reasons such as poor nutrition and ineffective training for example. Many people spend hours in the free weights area following programmes that are not [...]
This whole body workout combines large compound resistance exercises combined with plyometric based exercises to help you improve your strength, power, anaerobic fitness and burn plenty of calories. This workout superset’s (performing 2 exercises back to back with no rest) strength exercise with an explosive cardio based movement.*****
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