Listening in on many gym conversations as well avid sports fans using certain terminology to describe athletes I feel that I need to clear up a few misconceptions. How many times have you called an athlete ‘Powerful’? I am guessing it is too many times to keep count of? But was it used in the right context when we consider the definition. Is it possible to be fast without being powerful? Just because you are strong does it mean that you are powerful? Strength is simply the maximum amount of force that can be produced. Speed refers to how quickly…
Category: Performance
Press Ups, simple to perform and only require a small amount of floor space. No benches, no dumbbells, no real need for a gym membership. Not only this but Press Ups are also a great exercise for developing upper body pressing strength and endurance. The exercise will significantly tax the muscles of your chest (Pectorals), arms (Triceps) and shoulders (Anterior Deltoid) as well as giving the muscles surrounding your spine a good test too. Many people will say that they have outgrown the Press Up and that it is only useful for beginners. ‘I am too strong for them…
Do you burn the candle at both ends? Quite often training hard in your sport or in the gym is quite often balanced with a hard working attitude in the rest of your life. This also applies to parties and social situations. Work Hard, Play Hard is a commonly heard phrase. But could lack of sleep be holding you back? Recovery from the your sport or gym session is just as important as the session itself. Think of the session being the stimulus for improvement, however this stimulus temporarily damages and weakens the body. It is the time…
It is that time again. Yes January is upon us again and no doubt many of us are feeling guilty about our over indulgences over the festive period. What better way to reverse this than to get into the gym to eliminate the season of excess. I could not agree more, but before you hurry off to the gym it may be helpful to arm yourself with some knowledge about why you are exercising and how the training that you are doing is going to benefit you (or not as the case may be). Hands up who is going to…