By Steph SCPT
My personal training sessions tend to include the same few pieces of equipment over and over again - suspension trainer, kettlebells, ViPR's and the client's own body weight. Why is this?
By Steph SCPT
Alistair Brownlee (ITU World Triathlon Champion) swears by running drills, but should we include them in our running workouts on a regular basis and how can they improve your running performance?
Well if they are good enough for Alistair (who can run a 10km in just over 29 minutes) then they are good enough for me. So what are running drills and how will they improve your performance?
By Steph SCPT
Squatting - One of the oldest and most used exercises in the gym...or is it? For me a squat should be used in everyones fitness programme and is one of the most versatile exercises available. While extremely functional, it is also a relatively low complex skill that anyone from beginniner to the advanced gym user can achieve.
For anyone who doesn't know, the definition used to describe a squat is:
By Steph SCPT
Many people ask me what I think is the best exercise/exercise equipment ever?
While teaching aspiring personal trainers about the different types of dumbbell and barbell exercises, I always have that niggling feeling in the back of my mind, that there are better, more recent and in my opinion more effective methods of achieving fitness goals that we should also be telling them about.
By Steph SCPT
In 1997 Dr Romanov released his first educational video about the pose running method. He had been studying this method since the 1970's. However, I only discovered the benefits of pose running soon after I started Triathlon in 2009.