Exercises to strengthen lower and middle traps
Three exercises to strengthen the lower and middle traps. These muscles are important for stabilising weight overhead and for good posture.
15 Signs You’re The Only Woman in the Weights Room
Many women can find the gym daunting enough as it is, and that’s before even stepping foot into the weights room. Whether you are new to free weights or have been training for years, it is still easy to feel out of place when the majority of the population in the weight area are male. […]
Just strong: it’s not about out-lifting the guys
I’m all for female empowerment, but all of this ‘I can out-lift the blokes at the gym’ or ‘My girlfriend can out-lift you’ talk frustrates me.
How to snatch
The snatch has the reputation of being very complex and difficult to learn, but it’s not as hard as you think if it is taught well. Cue my video, which breaks the movement down into simple drills that build on each other until you are putting the whole movement together smoothly.