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Why Women Should Lift Weights

| July 29, 2015 | 0 comments

I am a firm believer that strength training, in a well-coached, structured manner is highly important for EVERYONE. Whether you are a guy or a gal, a rugby player or triathlete, a housewife or a soldier, using a barbell or some form of strength training will benefit you. In this short blog I will

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Post workout Nutrition

| January 16, 2015 | 0 comments

We’ve had a couple of questions recently about post-workout nutrition. But before answering what’s best for you, we need to know who “you” are. Post-workout nutrition very much depends on the goal of the athlete, be it; for strength and performance gains; or for weightloss and health, in the form of minimising inflammation and

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Sleep and Recovery – Optimising your performance.

| December 3, 2014 | 0 comments

Millions if not billions of pounds every year goes to either the research or purchase of sports supplementation, all with the promise of greater improvements. Except for the stimulant camp, all supplements promise this improvement essentially though faster/more total RECOVERY. Whilst some of these supplements are highly useful to fine tune your performance,

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LiftOff CrossFit – Programming Insights

| November 7, 2014 | 0 comments

Programming insights: Here is my second article with an insight into the programming I’m doing for you guys and why I’m doing it…..there is method to the madness! Today I will talk about last wednesday’s session: Wednesday 29th October Warm up + Deadlift practice* We do dynamic range of motion stuff to warm up

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The Deadlift Athletes, bishops stortford, Competition, Crossfit, Fitness, high performance programming, HPP, Injury active clinic, Liftoff Crossfit, Programming, Back pain, sports injury, Training, Deadlift, Deadlifting, James Wilkinson

| October 29, 2014 | 0 comments

Its primal, its big and its sexy, the Deadlift is the big daddy of all your barbell movements and if you’re a balanced lifter you should be able to move the most weight in this movement. It improves posture, helps positioning in the 1st and 2nd pull of your Olympic lifts and greatly increases raw

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Pullups – Kipping or Strict?

| September 8, 2014 | 0 comments

When discussing kipping, its best first to address the various posts, comments and general discussion there are across the Internet on “is kipping a good idea?”. This question has got people heated on both sides, general fitness culture and bodybuilding consider kipping to be a “cheat”, some other fitness professionals and therapists

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Foot Positioning in the Squat

| September 5, 2014 | 0 comments

The Kelly Starrett hype on movement/mobility has led to large discussions on the foot position during squatting. As a result, much like sports medicine, there are arguments/evidence for and against certain modalities for treatment. Individuality is key here in my opinion and plays a part in most of my clinic reasoning for treatment of injuries/movement

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The Ten General Physical Skills

| September 1, 2014 | 0 comments

In CrossFit we aim to increase your general physical preparedness (GPP) across all domains of physical movement. This means that we encourage people to try and be good at everything and become as well rounded as possible. The original idea behind this was that those in the military, emergency and rescue services needed to

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A Guide to the Language of Programming

| August 28, 2014 | 0 comments

A guide to the language of programming So sometimes you might hear us as coaches throwing some pretty unfamiliar terms at you in reference to the programming, so here is a bit of a breakdown of some of the terms we use! Aerobic Aerobic comes from a Greek word meaning air. It is used

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