Use Broad Jumps To Improve Your Sprint Start Technique A sprint start requires extremely high forces to be applied to the starting blocks and the ground as fast as possible to enable the athlete to rapidly build up speed. In order to do this the athlete...
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A DAY WITH CANADIAN SHOT PUTTER TIM NEDOW AT PERFORMANCE GROUND Tim Nedow, Canadian shot putter and 2016 Olympian visited us for a training session and got to go through our performance assessment standard. THE VIDEO: A glimpse of Tim Nedow's 10 yard dash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbcqRhzWacA...
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Join our leading athletic performance workshop series for fitness professionals and stand out in the over crowded fitness industry! >>https://trainwithpg.com/workshops/ Our September workshops are: - THE BIG 3: SQUAT, BENCH PRESS, DEADLIFT The Big 3: Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift Workshop is aimed at personal trainers, sport specific coaches, PE...
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Explosive speed training with this full body dynamic warm up that will shave seconds off the clock If you are an athlete at Performance Ground or you follow our blogs, you will know how much we value a progressive warm up. The warm up is consistently...
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Gym Owner Of The Month - Gym Owner Monthly Magazine We've been featured in Gym Owner Monthly Magazine as Gym Owner Of The Month! Massive congratulations to the whole team at Performance Ground and the hard work all the staff members have put in and a massive thank...
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Ben Hobson, Digital Editor of Runner's World, trying out the Performance Ground Performance Assessment Runner's World Digital Editor Ben Hobson joined us for performance testing yesterday. We tested his movement competency, explosiveness, sprint capability and change of direction ability. Overcome performance plateaus, recover faster and find your edge...
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Jonathan Ilori smashed it again this weekend coming home with a silver medal at the English Championships and a gold medal at the UK County Athletics Union Championships after competing in triple jumping. Jonathan has been doing his strength and conditioning training with us at Performance...
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Taekwondo is a striking sport that requires a massive amount of strength, speed and stamina throughout the entire body. We have previously spoken about kicking and improving your mobility to get the best out of your kicks. This week we are going to take a...
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We had the pleasure of having GB athletics coach John Shepherd at Performance Ground today. John Shepherd is the coach of our elite triple jumper Jonathan Ilori and his squad includes long jumpers, triple jumpers, sprinters and multi events athletes ranked very highly on the...
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BECOME AN EXPLOSIVE TAEKWONDO ATHLETE Dominant taekwondo athletes are able to over-power and out-manoeuvre their opponent using explosive footwork, movement and striking patterns. By bouncing and staying on the balls of their feet fighters maintain a constant state of tension and readiness in their muscles, ready for...
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