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25 Feb
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From powerlifter to physio and back again – Dealing with common injuries in Lifters and Athletes

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In this article I am going to discuss my experiences of rehabbing athletes and talk about some common trends with the pain/ injuries they present with. Again I am aiming this article...

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18 Feb
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How framing can make or break your progress

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No matter who you are, what you do, or where you live in the last 12 months you have seen some change.  For some of us, it could have changed for the...

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11 Feb
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From Powerlifter to Physio and back again – What is pain and how can I deal with it

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In this article series, I am going to talk about some key points I have learned on my journey from powerlifter to Physio and hopefully give some good info along the way....

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21 Jan
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Training during lockdown for lifters 2.0 – Lessons learned and making the second one better,

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I wrote a whole bunch of resources during the first lockdown to the point where I literally have a lockdown training E-book that I gave to my clients at the time.  What...

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08 Dec
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Testing vs Building Strength

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Oh look everyone, do you see that on the horizon it’s another non-existent dichotomy grazing upon the fields of gullibility.  The goal of training should be to increase your fitness in the...

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26 Nov
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There is no system or method

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The willy nilly use of words like training systems, the XYZ method, and god knows what other name has always annoyed me in the strength training world.  You...

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15 Oct
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5 Things I learned as a person during lockdown

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The final of our three-part what I learned during the lockdown series as we move into the winter of 2020 and maybe entering Lockdown two electric boogaloo. This will make for...

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29 Sep
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5 things I learned during lockdown as a business owner

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Lockdown was a shit time for pretty much everyone when it came to business or work.  Some people were lucky enough to have a job they could do from home, other people...

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15 Sep
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5 Things I learned during lockdown as a lifter.

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It’s early September as I am writing this in 2020. If you are reading this text 20 years in the future or if you haven’t been paying attention this year has...

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12 Aug
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Lifting Stoicism – how to come to terms with the fact that steel and gravity don’t care about your feelings

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When you are in the lifting game for longer than a minute you are going to come across the ups and the downs that come with this sport or hobby.  For those...

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23 Jul
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10 Reasons why Joe Wicks embodies everything that is wrong with humanity.

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I mean that is clearly a clickbait title and assuming you are reading my first sentence congratulations for falling for it!  The positive argument for popular trends in health and fitness goes...

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18 Jun
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Developing a technical mastery model for powerlifting – Individualisation of the technical model

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Once we have created our understanding of the movement we want to learn, teach and create mastery of the next stage is to take our understanding and to try and tear it...

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12 Jun
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Developing a technical mastery model for powerlifting – creating a technical model or mental representation

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There is a lot of talk in the powerlifting community when it comes to technique and form.  There are entire meme pages on Instagram whose business model is posting up people with...

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04 Jun
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High-Intensity Interval Training For Fitness – Your easy guide to the science and practice of interval training.

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High-intensity interval training has now achieved the jaunty heights of the exercise fad.  It is the backbone of many exercise classes, personal training sessions and now it even is forming the core...

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27 May
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Thinking of training load as stimulus and not a “program”

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Training science is a young and underdeveloped branch of science. At this point in time we are still groping around the elephant that we call training.  Some people have hold of...

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19 May
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Getting back into training after a long lay off.

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Depending on how this whole thing pans out we might be a few weeks away from getting back to training in a gym or with weights or we could be a few...

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12 May
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The UK Covid-19 Home gym

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Publication date - 12th May 2020 We just entered the 8th week of lockdown in the UK and while home workouts and keeping training are great some people might...

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21 Apr
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What you need for a performance gym in your garage. Part 1 – the fundamentals.

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Some of us who are lucky enough to have been able to afford or even get our hands on some equipment before this situation kicked off are the lucky few. Some...

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