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Barbell Rollout from the knees
In our circuit sessions, we have been doing barbell rollouts on our knees for a few months now (this is a fantastic way to strengthen your stomach/core). First time, they were hideously hard! I felt it for a week! But now…well, they are a bit run-of-the-mill to be honest.
…to everyone who ran the London marathon last weekend! And a special good luck to my friend Marion, who will be running the Edinburgh Marathon next month! I am incredibly proud of all the hard training and effort you have put into it!
We have had a young girl in the gym doing work experience all this week. And while I hope it has been a good learning experience for her, I know it has been a good one for me. This is because she has been asking loads of good questions. Ranging from really simple, to really advanced, but all of them making me re-think and re-remember all the stuff I “know” about exercise.
It was the first week back off the easter hols, so we had a nice easy session this week.
The group was split into 2 groups, and they alternated between shuttle runs and the following exercises…
In my usual glance through the news, I saw this story (click here). Would you have ice cream or a jam doughnut for breakfast? I hope not! But the story tells how many of our “healthy” breakfast cereals have more sugar than either of these unhealthy sweets.
Because of films, magazines and the media, about 99% of people seem to think that weight training = bodybuilding. This is not true. Bodybuilding is only a small subsection of weight training.
Instead I want you to think of weight training as a car mechanics garage…
I’m back! I went back home to Aberystwyth for my holiday and have a fantastic time by the sea!
But I’m back now with just one story from when I was away. Chatting to an old friend who is very enthusiastic, and always wants to make sure she is doing the “best” thing to help her lose weight. And she showed me this story here, recommending average calorie levels be increased. So she wanted to know if she should now suddenly start eating more.
Here is some invaluable advice for anyone who is new to exercise, or is thinking about starting to exercise…
A couple of months back I wrote about the basics of the 3 main reasons people come to the gym to exercise. One of these reasons is to lose weight.
Englands chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has called for “routine fitness tests” for secondary school children in an attempt to fight childhood obesity and inactivity levels. Click here for the story.
It has been a quiet day in work today. Only a couple of people booked in to coach, and I couldn’t convince anyone else to play with me.
So I had to watch a group of young lads playing with the freeweights for 2 hours and must have done about 50 different exercises with the weights. They were having great fun, they never stopped doing something the whole time and they left slapping eachother on the back congratulating for a job well done.
In the news today, it mentions that “two key treatments do not halt diabetes in people with early signs of the disease”. Click here to read the full story.
A regular in the gym I work at came up to me asking for newer, more elaborate exercises, because the ones she is doing now “aren’t working”.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that there is nothing wrong with doing new, funky exercises…but do them for the right reasons.
I came across this article (click here) about hypertension (high blood pressure) this morning. In my work I regularly come across people with hypertension, so here is some key information about it…
After yesterdays post about exercise during pregnancy, there was a question about what specific reps and sets of resistance should be done. So here goes…
A good friend of mine just got herself pregnant again (congratulations Sarah!). So I thought I would quickly go over some recommendations for her and others in her predicament 😉
A couple of weeks ago I explained how many people go to the gym, but don’t get the improvements in their weight/health that they want (click here for the article). And guess what? The government has just agreed with me! Click here to read about the report explaining how back in the sixties, we:
“There has been a “dramatic rise” in deaths in England in which obesity was a contributory factor, researchers say.”
This is the first paragraph in a story from the BBC news website (click here to read the story).
The bit that struck me was near the end when it says:
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