Muay Thai is a combat sport that involves stand up striking as well as grappling your opponent. It is referred to as the art of eight limbs as it involves the use of the hands, fists, knees and shins and thus has eight different potential...
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Due to the extreme physicality and amount of collisions the body takes during Muay Thai, recovery plays a large role in the ability for an athlete to keep performing as well as training week in week out. To improve in Muay Thai, just like any...
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“You can’t fire a cannon from a canoe” This is an analogy that has always resided with me. In essence, you can’t create power through the body if you aren’t grounded with your legs and feet. The force you apply into the ground has an...
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Keeping on the trend of our martial arts performance blog series and following last weeks article on improving punch speed, this week we are looking at injury prevention for the shoulder in boxing. RELEVANT: Improving Punch Speed For Boxers Injury Prevention You may have read a lot about...
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We had Matt Lister at Performance Ground for a performance assessment. Matt Lister is an ex-canoe slalom athlete for Great Britain and 4 x British national ranking champion, Youth Olympic champion, European Championship silver medallist and World Championship bronze medallist. Watch the behind the scenes video! THE VIDEO: British...
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Anthony Joshua reigns again, adding another belt and world title to his name, taking his career to 19-0 without looking like he’s going to slow down any time soon. Pundits have labeled him the best ever heavyweight to put on a pair of gloves, the...
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There are plenty of events from the world of strongman that are applicable to other sports. One such training modality is loaded carries. These come in many forms and are excellent for training trunk control, limb coordination and whole body strength. The previous description could...
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As some of you might have heard funding for the GB weightlifters has been cut. We are doing our best to support Zoe Pablo Smith, 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist and 2012 Olympian, by letting her train at our facility for free while she is...
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Agility has been a very spoken about topic in recent years, as well as the methods used to train and test it. Often people get confused between change of direction ability and agility. While the two characteristics are related, there is one main mechanism which...
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We have been featured on the ESP Fitness website as an "athletes haven" and "the first athlete centred high performance training gym in London and for anyone with a competitive edge, a love for sport and a passion for performance, this really is the place...
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