“Common Knowledge” is a phrase we all rely on everyday; Red sky at night Shepherds delight, chavs are trouble, fats are bad. Woah wait a minute, not everything that we believe to be true is always so, yes, chavs are trouble. No fats are not bad. In the 1950′s a prominent AMA (America Medical Association) ...…
I have just been clearing through my back log of emails and found this one I received from a client last summer after a ladies kickboxing course I ran; Kickboxing was his favourite game (that is how he achieved his great fame) With a jab, thrust, side kick and punch He'd take on the ...…
On the 30/12/2011 the Personal Trainers (and some clients) of Epsom’s premier Personal Training centre will go head to head in a friendly powerlifting competition, why? To help keep us all motivated, to test the fruits of our labour and more importantly to share varied training protocols that each of us will be undertaking. The ...…
On the 30/12/2011 the Personal Trainers (and some clients) of Epsom’s premier Personal Training centre will go head to head in a friendly powerlifting competition, why? To help keep us all motivated, to test the fruits of our labour and more importantly to share varied training protocols that each of us will be undertaking. The ...…
Individual Requirements Now we have covered, in brief, fibre types we can move onto training of those fibres. Each fibre type plays a different role in our lives. Type 1 are the weakest so it will be of less benefit to any other than endurance athletes to fatigue these, which their events ...…
Many people assume that by simply having a Personal Trainer you will automatically become slimmer as if by some mystical force the mere act of paying someone will magically trim fat away. The successful trainees are the ones that accept that no matter how effective a trainer you may have doesn’t take away from the ...…
Tips from Epsom Personal Trainer, Richard Ham Williams: 1)Deadlifts – Push your bum back, sit on your heals and take a bow! 2)Treadmill – forget them them if you want to work your bum, run outside. It’s harder and forces your gluteus maximus (bum) to pull your leg back and thus propells your body ...…
In part 1 I showed you the need for strength and size. now I’ll write about the basic different fibre types found in muscles….. It should be noted at this stage that each muscle group around the body can display different ratios of fibre types. Type 1 are classified as slow twitch and are aerobic ...…
Consider this post a little wake up call and a rant at myself too, after all I am guilty of the “quick fix” mindset at times. We see ripped abs, sexy buns and flat stomachs every day in advertising which leads us to believe that anybody can achieve such a physique. They can’t. Genetic variance ...…
Any sport, any, will benefit from having stronger muscles through improved economy of motion. Strength is the starting point from which all else is expressed, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, flexibility, stamina etc. Over the past few decades it has become more and more apparent that strong athletes are better than their weaker counterparts, the ...…