Movement Screening
Movement screens are a great way to understand a client's or athlete's movement capabilities and limitations. However, I do think it is key that people understand that a poor result on a specific movement assessment should NOT be seen as a sure sign of injury risk but as indicators of where improvements in overall performance can be made – making a more robust athlete! Assessing movement during a warm-up is [...]
Top 5 Fitness Tests
Fitness tests set benchmarks, inform our programming, and allow us to see whether we have improved. Therefore, fitness tests are a necessary part of optimal program design - programming just isn't programming if it doesn't include some form of fitness testing! On the flip side, some coaches go testing crazy, and sometimes we must take a step back and consider: How useful is the data I am going to get [...]
What are Plyometrics?
The term "Plyometrics" was coined by an Olympic long-distance runner from the USA named Fred Wilt. After watching Russian athletes using various jumps in their warm-ups before track and field events, he came up with the term. Plyometrics is essentially "Jump Training." However, we can also describe upper body exercises that emphasize using the stretch-shortening cycle (stretch reflex) to produce an explosive movement as plyometrics. For example, plyo push-ups. Yuri [...]
How to Prevent and Work Around Training Injuries
First things first, always see a medical professional if you are in pain or worried about a specific injury or ailment (injuries are complex). This article is designed to get you thinking about what measures you can take to reduce the risk of training injuries. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that we will eradicate injuries, especially when aiming for the highest level of performance. However, there is a lot we can [...]
Gym Macclesfield
When you search "Gym Macclesfield" on Google, dozens of results come up, and although these gyms are all competition for us, it is an awesome thing that there are so many successful gyms and personal trainers within Macclesfield! In Macclesfield, we have 5+ large commercial gyms, multiple strength and conditioning gyms and functional fitness facilities, numerous bodybuilding gyms, several combat gyms and dozens of private personal training studios, and small [...]