Throwing myself in at the deep end with my research plans for this year, I thought I would start with a bit of technical reading about the bench press. On my hunt for material I found a research paper in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition that seemed highly appropriate. In the [...]
The deadlift is a powerful exercise thought it is too often disregarded by people through fear of injury. The deadlift uses the entire body in a way that is unrivalled by any other exercise (although the back squat and Olympic lifts definitely give it a run for its money). A couple of months ago there [...]
I’ve been using Pendlay rows, a form of bent over row, for some time now. I thought I’d do a quick post to explain more about them. Who is Pendlay? Glenn Pendlay is an experienced Olympic Lifting coach based in California. He’s a man who knows his stuff and gets some brilliant results from the [...]
Tags:Exercises·Pendlay row·Training
Following on from last week, this week sees some more videos of exercises for toning our bums and thighs (less on the tums, it just fitted well with the title) as well as my conclusions on all these videos at the end. 6. Natalia Muntean Key exercises: Wide stance deep squat, Horse stance, Skier squat, [...]
Tags:Exercises·Glutes·Muscle gain·Women
For some reason, Chris went through a phase of sharing with me millions of videos and articles containing videos produced by a collection of models, trainers, bloggers and complete unknowns. I’ve picked out some of them and done a comparison of the key exercises and set/rep schemes to see if there is something to learn [...]
I was going to write about the impact of my menstrual cycle on exercise but it was so tightly tied into the Hepburn routine I’ve been using that I thought I would start with an article about this and move onto my menstrual cycle next week. Who was Hepburn? Hepburn was one of the ultimate [...]
A few weeks ago I did a post about back squat form. Building on this I was going to do a post about the different types of squats and what they are beneficial for, but it struck me that there are more than enough of these types of articles elsewhere on the internet. What you [...]
I’ve often seen trainers telling people that they shouldn’t squat because it is bad for their knees. Ok, that’s not true. What I tend to see or hear is people who have been told by their personal trainers that they won’t be learning to squat because it’s bad for their knees. By working out in [...]
Tags:Injury·Powerlifting·Squat·Training
Last week I explained that I rave about Hip Thrusts and Weighted Glute Bridges because I’ve seen such amazing improvements to my glutes, both in strength and appearance, since I started dedicatedly incorporating these into my program. I wrote about how to do glute bridges as a progressive exercise and promised that this week I [...]
I suppose this is a sort of “lessons learned” post, but only to the extent that I rave about Hip Thrusts and Weighted Glute Bridges. I’ve seen some amazing improvement to my glutes, both in strength and appearance since I started dedicatedly incorporating these into my program, so I decided it was time to do [...]
