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William Badenoch

Nov 13
1

Circuit Training For Size!

By | Bodybuilding, Sports Training | No Comments

This week’s article is a guest post from up and coming Strength and Conditioning Coach Bradley Westell. Bradley has recently returned from a weekend shadowing the Strength and Conditioning coaches at one of the UK’s biggest Premiership Rugby clubs where he witnessed the methods this elite club uses to pack muscle onto their academy players. In this article Bradley outlines what he learned about the use of Circuit Training to transform the Rugby stars of tomorrow into some of the biggest and fastest athletes on the planet!

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Mar 23
1

The Most Important Training Variable

By | Motivation, Personal Training | No Comments

This weeks blog post is by guest author Jim Galvin. Jim is a former Royal Marine Commando, Navy Sprinter and British Bob Sled competitor who now runs a successful Personal Training and Strength & Conditioning business in Sussex called Atlas Fitness and Conditioning. Jim has trained at some of the most prestigious S&C gyms in the world including the Parisi Speed School in New Jersey and of course our very own Plymouth Performance Gym and has since gone on to work with a wide variety clients helping them to reach their goals. In this article Jim looks at one of the most underrated yet crucial aspects to achieving success in the gym…

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Feb 23
1

8 Lessons Learned from Britain’s Strongest Man

By | Strength Training, Strongman | No Comments

This weekend we had the current (2X) Britain’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall at the gym to deliver a seminar on his training philosophies and practices. Eddie is quite literally one of the strongest men to have ever walked the planet with deadlift, squat and overhead strength that are freakish even when compared to his fellow elite strongmen. The day he spent with us here at Plymouth Performance Gym discussing his methods were extremely enlightening and I have compiled a list of the 8 main ‘take home points’ which I picked out during the day:

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Dec 09
1

Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

By | Strength Training | No Comments

Many athletes are, quite understandably, sceptical as to the benefits of strength training for endurance sports. Sportifs and marathons require continuous exertion over an extended period of time, sometimes up to several hours, at a relatively low percentage of maximum effort. Strength training, conversely, takes place over an extremely short period of time (usually a matter of seconds) at a high percentage of maximum effort. How then can a form of training that so poorly mimics the demands of the other be of any use?

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Dec 06
1

The Problem with ‘Perfect’ Training

By | Strength Training | No Comments

The advent of the internet means that the average, (motivated) gym goer has access to top quality information on training and nutrition the likes of which has previously been reserved for the clients and athletes training under the industries top coaches. By and large this exposure to elite training practices has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the methods people are using to better themselves in the gym, however it is apparent to me (working every day in my own training facility) that this knowledge has the potential to negatively impact on the results people are getting.

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