Build Strength Anywhere The summer is coming and you are probably thinking about going on holiday frantically researching for the package with the best hotel gym so that your strength training doesn’t have to be put on hold for a week. Fret not, we have a...
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4 Dynamic and Static Balance Drills That Will Make You a Better Athlete Balance is the component of fitness that everybody forgets about. It’s hard to measure and you can’t see it in the mirror. Unless you are involved in a sport that relies heavily on...
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Today, we're going to talk about drills that we can use to improve your running mechanics. This is for long distance running and top speed running. There's 2 things we need to address: Ankle stiffness to improve our efficiency. Posture whilst we're running. We’re going to start...
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Do Fitness Trackers REALLY Work? Technology in the fitness industry is a relatively new concept. Runners and cyclist have been using heart rate monitors for a few decades now but thanks to the innovation from the likes of FitBit, Garmin and now Apple, the amount of...
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What Does The Science Say About Fasted Cardio? There are two types of people in this world, the ones that eat breakfast before training and the ones that would rather not. The former cannot function without some kind of fuel. It makes them feel weak and...
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Harness the mind to get stronger, better and faster. Motivation is the ability to initiate and persist at a given task. It is the building block of all accomplishments athletic or otherwise. You could have the best equipment, best coaches, best nutrition and the best environment...
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Barbell exercises warm up routine. In this article, we're going to talk about how you can use barbell exercises to warm up. We always advise warming up using the RAMP protocol which, means raise, activate, mobilise and potentiate. You can do various walks, crawls, bridges and dynamic...
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6 Primal movement patterns essential to mastering functional fitness. Primal movements are basic and natural movements that our ancestors have historically used for a very long time. These movements include tasks such as learning how to sit, roll, crawl and stand which, are methods of exploration,...
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NADIA CLIENT OF THE MONTH Nadia started training at Performance Ground in November on a trial and really bought into our way of training. Since then, Nadia has become a full-time member. She always gives 100% in her sessions, even after long weeks in the office....
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4 (INTENSE) Push Pull Training Exercises for Building Strength and Mass Before we dive into this blog article about building size and strength, we first need to understand how size and strength are developed. Hypertrophy, increasing muscle size, can be developed through a variety of different...
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