Best Ski Preparation Exercises This blog is the first in our new four-part series that focuses on how to best prepare for the upcoming ski season. In this first blog, we will take you through some of the basic ski preparation exercises that we recommend you...
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Sports Nutrition Myths Interesting Facts Athletes have always coveted peak physical performance. Whether that was Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute mile or more recently Eliud Kipchoge breaking the sub 2 hour marathon. Athletes have always pursued to do the unthinkable and take human performance to...
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5 Common Gym Myths Busted Misinformation is rife throughout the internet particularly, on social media and subsequently, we get asked a lot of questions about this so called “information” and why it hasn’t worked to help our clients reach their goals. As such, we are debunking...
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Food Myths And Popular Health Claims We live in an age where information is more accessible than ever. All you need to do is grab your phone out of your pocket, click a few buttons and hey presto, you have the answer to your questions…yay! Unfortunately,...
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4 Biggest Exercise Myths We always hear statements such as ‘squats are bad for your knees’ or ‘I train hard so I can eat what I want’. Word of mouth has passed this around and it has been made believable. In this article, we are going...
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Top Self Reflection Techniques For Athletes Self reflection is an important psychological process and can be defined as: “Examining one’s own thoughts and feelings and considering what they mean”. In the sporting context, self reflection can be valuable to a team sports competitor as a tool...
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Strategies To Boost Your Recovery In Sports Now, that most sports are in season, training becomes a more difficult task to perfect due to the intensity of the matches that are being played and also, their volume. As a result, this will lead to fatigue which,...
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Fuelling and Refuelling Team sports are predominantly aerobic (using oxygen) affairs characterised by short intense bouts of anaerobic (not using oxygen) activity such as quick sprints to intercept a ball. Due to this regular switching between the two types of metabolism, your body likes to utilise...
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PG Setting An Achievable Training Goal Client Stories: Shaun Shaun, 29 year old working for an educational charity and being desk bound all day, joined Performance Ground and achieved his training goal of building a baseline of general health and fitness while recovering from a severe...
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PG Gaining Lean Muscle Mass Client Stories: Amerdeep Amerdeep, 50 year old cyclist, lost quite a lot of body mass for his latest cycling event and his body fat percentage increased. This negatively affected his confidence and body image. He now, wanted to be a “big,...
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