In this post we discuss why building resilience with resistance training will improve your golf. When we think about the purpose of training for sport, we often focus on performance. In golf that might be the length of your drive, or your club head speed. Integral to performance however, is your ability to reproduce that […]
Training
Why you’re not getting stronger in the gym and what to do about it
In this post we discuss why you’re not getting stronger in the gym and share some ideas to help you move past a training plateau. If you’ve been resistance training for a while, you may have noticed your progress has stalled. Gone are the days when you seemed to be adding weight with every session. […]
Why you’re waking up in pain: It’s probably not how you slept
In this post we discuss why you’re waking up in pain and debunk the myth that’s it’s connected to how you slept. Pain can be deceptive when you’re looking for the potential cause. If you touch a hot stove and recoil away in pain, there can be little doubt that the stove had something to […]
How Katharine beat sciatica to run the London Marathon
In this post we discuss how Katharine beat sciatica to run the London Marathon using targeted resistance training. Katharine came to me 5 months out from running the London marathon. She wanted to start increasing her mileage in preparation, but there was a problem: the nerve pain that had plagued her for years had made […]
Stronger and faster at 50: Dominique’s secret to peak performance
In this post we explore how to get stronger and faster at 50, through an insightful case study of a master’s biathlete. Dominique (pictured above) has featured on this blog before, winning age group medals in international biathlon events. She’s just done something more extraordinary however. In a recent biathlon event in Norway she went […]