PG Sports Performance Client Stories: Kacper Kacper, 24 year old busy corporate and Jiu Jitsu athlete, is desk bound all day suffering from tight muscles and poor posture. He was overwhelmed by his poor life quality as this was also causing him to underperform in Jiu...
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PG Weight Loss Client Stories: Chris Chris, 39 year old busy corporate, was suffering from a painful knee issue due to the sedentary nature of his desk bound work resulting in weight gain. He wanted to overcome his knee issue, escape from his sedentary desk bound...
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PG Sports Injury Client Stories: Helen Helen, 31 year old Netball player, was mentally drained and disappointed by the large muscle tear injury she got while playing Netball. She wanted to overcome her injury to be able to do the things that she enjoys without pain or...
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How To Improve Your Thoracic Spine Mobilization The term thoracic refers to a portion of the spine that start from the mid back and goes all the way to the upper back. This is a vital area to have mobility in due to its involvement in...
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Plan your commute We get up, get dressed and out of the house to start what can be quite a long and stressful journey for some. You may not have a choice due to work location or financial reasons however, there are some very simple and...
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How Many Sets For Weight Training - Strength Gains Or Muscle Building Sets are the number of times someone performs one exercise during a session for a certain number of repetitions. Set, rep & weight prescriptions are often programmed differently depending on what the training goal...
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How to increase muscle cross sectional area with functional hypertrophy training We know what you might be thinking when you hear the term functional hypertrophy training, multiple sets of 10-12 on everything or performing a functional, single leg squat balancing on a kettlebell with an overhead...
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Weight Lifting Tempo Tempo is the program design variable referencing the speed of movement for each repetition of an exercise. A repetition is comprised of 4 types of muscle contractions. 4 types of muscle contractions Isometric: The muscle is developing tension and contracting but no joint movement...
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Technique For Snatch - Learn How To Barbell Snatch In this article, we are going to show you how to do a barbell snatch, go over its technical components and the progressions that lead into the snatch. In previous articles, we went over the clean and...
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Improve Your Mobility and Flexibility With Active Rest Rest periods are great for recovery and can vary enormously from 30 seconds for an endurance set to 60 seconds for hypertrophy or all the way up to 6 minutes for maximal strength and power work. We live...
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