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
Over the last few weeks I’ve been making recordings of some of the bits of my workouts. Squat I filmed the first four sets of my eight sets with 75kg on 4 May. It was the second time I’d done this weight (so one set of three and seven sets of two reps) and I [...]
I am serious about wanting to meet national qualifying standards in powerlifting. I’m also aiming to compete one day with the British Drug Free Powerlifting Association, although I’m holding back until at least 2012 for that. 2010 proved to be the year when I really nailed my hip mobility, subsequently made massive increases on my [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a few months since the last update of news and research in the pregnancy world. In my personal life I’ve had a new niece and a new nephew arrive in the last few months so I thought it was time I heralded their arrival with a few posts I’ve seen about pregnancy. It’s [...]
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 [...]
