Rehabilitation

In this post we discuss how to focus to transform your injury rehab results. What do you think about when performing exercise? What you’re going to have for dinner? That argument you had with your partner this morning? Or can coffee actually kill you? On that last question, it can but you really have to […]

So you’d like to start resistance training because you’ve read about it’s benefits, particularly as you age. Like most people you have some existing physical issues. A knee that feels stiff in the morning perhaps, back pain that comes and goes, or a shoulder that gives you trouble on occasion. You want to get stronger […]

In this post we’ll look at why tricep dips are bad for your shoulders and show how they don’t really challenge your triceps either. Following on from my recent post on what must be the worst exercise in the gym, here’s the exercise that came in a close second, the tricep dip. The first issue […]

In this post I’ll explain how to set up the leg press machine to get the best results and what to check if you’re experiencing issues. The leg press challenges many of the muscles in the lower body including the quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes and calves. It offers a safer alternative to the free weight loaded […]

In this post we explore why the face pull is bad exercise and give you a safer, more effective alternative. Perhaps the most significant part of my work is not the exercises I give people, but rather the ones I suggest they stop doing. There are a number of common exercises that represent bad choices […]