Training

If you’re making no progress with your injury rehab, then this post is for you. Whilst perhaps counterintuitive, we explore why subtracting can have a profound impact. We often think the solution to a problem is to do more of something. Rehab is no different, especially when things aren’t going to plan. You’ve probably had […]

What thoughts enter your mind when you see the words pain and weight training? A bad training experience perhaps. An injury, or a session that was too difficult for you at that particular time. Maybe though the two are synonymous. It’s not a single experience that you think of but rather one leads to the […]

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. At a glance Incorrect muscle target: Dips load your shoulder (anterior deltoid) — not your triceps — due to the line of force bypassing the elbow joint in most cases. Shoulder injury risk: Many people […]