This article is about the rear foot elevated (rfe) split squat and the split squat – the variations I use with my clients, how I use them, and the reasons I use them. I hope you will take plenty away from this article, but do bear in mind that there are many other variations and […]
Picture the scene: a typical Monday evening in a commercial gym. The place is rammed! Yes, there are so many treadmills that one or two are still available, but you are here to lift weights and get stronger, dammit! A treadmill ain’t gonna cut it. The weight room is also rammed. Every bench is taken, […]
Many clients come to me saying that they can’t squat below parallel. It turns out that after working with me for a session or two, around half of them can squat below parallel. And the rest have all improved their squat depth significantly. I’d love to say I’m some kind of mad genius, but my […]
As a strength personal trainer, I have lost count of the number of people who have said to me “I don’t want to lift heavy because I am afraid I will injure myself”. But it’s perfectly possible to injure yourself with a warm up weight, lifting weights the right way with proper form is the […]
Picture the scene: you rock up to the gym all excited to do your 5×5 squats, only to find the squat rack is occupied by three dudes doing endless seated shoulder press. You immediately panic about your lack of ‘gainz’ and sulk because no exercise can possibly come close to the awesomeness that is the […]
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games.
26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan succeeded because he was prepared to just do, whatever the consequences. He kept doing the thing and kept learning from it. And all that learning helped him to refine his game to the point where he was able to be very successful.
Pull ups! We all want to be able to knock out them out like a marine. In the eyes of many, it’s the ultimate show of strength – especially when you don’t have a barbell handy! But getting that first pull up seems incredibly hard.
Weightlifting is more than just brute strength and being able to chuck the heaviest weights above your head. Olympic weightlifting champions can’t just stroll up to the bar with no warm up or training and that’s the job done – no matter how tired or stiff they might feel! As weightlifters, we have to perform […]
Why do push ups? Push ups are a fantastic compound exercise for building strength in your pectorals, deltoids, triceps and abdominals. Using your body weight, there are a number of adaptations you can use to progress or regress the difficulty of the exercise. These are body weight exercises which involve knees on the floor, full […]
You’ve probably heard about the mind-muscle connection, but did you know you can leverage it to increase strength? Bodybuilders have known it for years. Now we have the evidence. You can increase the engagement of a muscle just by thinking about it.