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crossfit, Programme, Strength and Conditioning

Training for CrossFit – A professional Strength and Conditioning Coach’s ideas on how to train for the most popular strength sport on earth.

I’ve given CrossFit a fair amount of shit in my time, I won’t shy away from it some of the movement standards allowed by boxes and at competitions doesn’t really do much to put...

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Powerlifting, Programme

How to manipulate volume and intensity as a powerlifter to ensure you are getting stronger.

When it comes to programming there are a whole bunch of variables to consider some of which can lead to massive gains in a very short period of time when it comes down to...

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Powerlifting, Powerlifting Technique, Programme, Technique, Training Attitude, Training Specifcity

Deliberate practice for powerlifting – Why just showing up is not nearly enough.

  TAKE AWAY ITEMS Never rest on your laurels improve in every aspect of your lifting. Be exacting on yourself high standards are essential. Always seek feedback subjective, objective, video, lifting partners and coaches. Have...

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Fitness, Novice, Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Programme

Learning when to push through and when to pull back as a self coached lifter.

I’m what you might refer to as a self made man in the gym pretty much for 90% of my 12 year lifting life I have written my own programmes and devised my own...

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Operation 700

Operation 700 – Blog update 3 – Putting 300 to bed and the value of goal setting

So when I last updated this blog series I was heading down to London for the first time using the ironically titled Gold service down to London offered by megabus.  Since then I have...

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Powerlifting, Powerlifting Technique, Uncategorized

The Boris Sheiko Experience – London Seminar – 28th February 2016

Kirill Sarychev and his 335 kg unequipped bench press is just one of the many reasons when Mr. Sheiko speaks wise men listen.   It's 4 am and I am leaving my flat in Edinburgh...

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Sport, Sport Specific, Strength and Conditioning, Strength training, Training Transfer

When is it time to stop general preperation?

As strength and conditioning coaches and especially as strength coaches pretending to be strength and conditioning coaches I feel it is easy to get trapped in the process of worrying too much about...

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Athlete Advice, Fitness, Training Specifcity

Whatcha Training for Bro? Why you probably have no idea what you are doing in the gym and why you are doing it.

When we talk about strength training it gets easy to get sucked into one of the many cults that exist here are a few of those prestigious religious institutions -   The fat man cult...

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Powerlfiting, Powerlifting, Strength and Conditioning

The Powerlifter’s Off Season

I've worked with sports men and women for nearly a decade now I have worked with Olympians, International team sports stars and youth athletes who have never stepped in a gym before.  One thing...

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