Some people appear to be born achievers whereas many of us feel that greatness in whatever form is the destiny of some other lucky person.
Feelings of not having the skills to start something knew; not having the knowledge to progress our career; not being confident enough to meet new people and make things happen are [...]

I’m willing to bet you’d love to know exactly how to minimize your body fat.
Unfortunately there is so much information out there (much of which is very contradictory) that you just don’t know where to start. As a result, you do just that – don’t start!
The truth is that dropping unwanted body fat is in [...]

For the next 12 weeks I’ll be trialling the new style Intense Conditioning with some other poor bastards.
This time there is more focus on strength and power and the physique side of things and a whole new world of nutrition beyond the outdated and overrated protein, carb, fat arguments. This is about performance through health [...]

Most people a week before going home for Christmas are thinking about Christmas trees, eating 15lbs of Turkey in one sitting and how to stitch up Uncle Tommy with a whoopee cushion.
I’m usually in this category, but this year found myself in the freezing valleys of South Wales with the UK’s top strength and conditioning [...]

When you train, do you always think about just what you’re doing in that particular session or do you give any regard to the links between what you do from Session 1 to Session 2 to Session 3?
Recently I’ve been working hard to improve my leg strength and power using various squatting and lunge methods.
In [...]

Since I’ve started getting into sprint distance triathlon training I’ve been playing this balancing act between various training methods as I don’t want to sell my soul to aerobic exercise and carb overload as is typical of many in the sport! We all know that carbicide is often the reason for the failure of most [...]

If you haven’t heard about Intense Conditioning you should have!
I’m going to be relaunching it next year but need some more testimonials and so I’m on the hunt for some more Guinea Pigs.

I’m looking for 5 men and 5 women to start the program on Monday January 4th for 12 weeks. If you are going [...]

Are you reeeeeeady?
Ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. Brace yourself for the biggest, the baddest, the most incredible amount of fitness bullshit you’ve ever seen – heading to a town near you in 2010.

Yes it’s nearly that time again when internet fitness experts (many of whom don’t actually train anyone anymore because they make enough [...]

I had an awesome session this morning – here’s how it went down!
A1: 5 x 5 Power push ups with clap behind back
A2: 5 x 10 Lying single arm med ball throw (think front crawl upside down!)
B1: Handstand push ups 5 x 3-5
C1: Seated row 3 x 8 @ 75kg
C2: Dumbbell chest press 3 x [...]

I’m working through a strength and power phase at the moment which involves a lot of plyometric work and low rep, heavy weights to help improve vertical jump and develop more power endurance for sprint distance triathlons.
Below are some clips from a recent lower body training session which went something like this…
Rebound jumps 5×5
Hurdle hops [...]