Why are you training? It's a question that gets asked a lot. Why do we do these things? For most of the people I work with, training serves a purpose. It is to provide them with the strength,  mobility and endurance to go out and take on various challenges.  Be that sports, be it traversing the mountains, security work, or simply doing everyday stuff without pain and discomfort  So to this end I view creating training plans as a process of reverse engineering. Every client that comes to me...

We are back! I hope you had a good break over Xmas and New Year, and are now ready to get stuck into another 12 months of awesomeness. If you have done as I have and eaten your bodyweight in mince pies and mash potatoes, then it'd be good advice to get back into the swing of things a little slowly. In my own training, I rolled it back 2 weeks. I'm following a plan that is based on Jim Wendlers 5/3/1, where the weights we lift each week are calculated on a "gym 1RM", or a 1 rep max that you...

I'd like to remind you that this is your blog and you are invited to ask questions Questions you send in get saved in a notes app and provide content for future editions What this ensures is that this blog stays relevant to you lot and on occasion has me scrambling to learn some stuff in order to get you the best answers Answers that are simple, applicable and yet still complete. Not ramming my bias down your throat or baffling you with bullshit. As an example or bias, incomplete thinking and...