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Strength Training For Cyclists
Whilst it is now commonly accepted that strength training improves cycling economy, the specifics of program design are often confused in personal training. The below program progresses through 3 phases over 12 weeks – phase 1 involves developing a base level of strength, phase 2…
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Nutrition and Hypertrophy
We’ve all heard the saying that results are based on 20% exercise, 80% nutrition but is this the same when it comes to nutrition and hypertrophy? Our 3 hour Nutrition for Hypertrophy workshop looks at how to use nutrition to gain optimum results with your hypertrophy…
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Results and Fatigue
Whilst it is common knowledge that volume and intensity need to be manipulated to avoid chronic and long term fatigue, strategies to assess how fatigued a client is are not common knowledge. Numerous strategies can be employed to constantly assess your client’s readiness to train:…
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Importance Of Education
I was recently scanning through the archives of the journal of strength and conditioning when I came across a paper by Berger et al., (2002). The paper is extremely interesting and, while we could argue that it is not in line with the times, a…
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What Soft Skills Does A Personal Trainer Need?
In one of his recent blogs, our Course Tutor, Chris Baird, talked about Perfecting Your Delivery which looked at spending time reflecting on things such as how well did your session go? Did you achieve the objective of the session? How did you interact with your client?…
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PT Book Essentials
When I first started my career in Personal Training I wanted to read everything. I honestly never realised how little I knew or understood as I do now. I’m 100% certain that when I look back in a further 10 years I’ll question so many…
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Polarised Endurance Training
The distribution of an amateur/ recreational runner’s training intensity is often lacking. It is quite common in recreational runners to see high volumes of single intensity running – despite varying distances, they fail to alter running speed. Polarised endurance training refers to training by which…
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Correcting the Deadlift
The deadlift can be a difficult skill to master – it requires an individual to be able to maintain a neutral spine, whilst completing first a leg press and secondly a hinge at the hip. The deadlift is an excellent posterior chain exercise developing both…
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Fitness Testing Clients
We have recently had a couple of personal training clients restart training with us. They had finished some time ago when they moved to a different part of the country. It’s always great getting a client back, especially when they’re great clients. These particular clients…
