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there is more focus on strength and power and the physique side of things and a whole new world of nutrition beyond the outdated and overrated protein, carb, fat arguments.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 [...]

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 [...]

In Part 1 we discussed how life is a set of waves. Learning how and when to ride the waves and learning to spot which ones are worth riding, is the key to fulfilment, happiness and developing the physical appearance and capabilities of the Bionic Man.
In training, the key to this is carefully planned deload [...]

Most people don’t train hard enough. Anyone who has spent five minutes in any commercial gym across the world will know this to be an indisputable truth.
However, at the other end of the spectrum we have those who have a complete inability to accept that they are not in fact the unbreakable machine they like [...]

You guys know me pretty well by now.
You know I’m all about having a reason training, training intensely and doing it for a reason.
Do what you need to do, no more, no less.
I’m not a fan of just lifting weights for the sake of it as with typical bodybuilding.
We all know the guy who looks [...]

I would happily bet a lot of money that this is one of the Top 20 Phrases searched for on Google.
“The best abs exercises”
Regardless of whether you train specifically for fat loss, muscle building, sports performance, ‘feeling better about myself’ or you’re just one of the mindless few who just ‘go to the gym’ it’s [...]

I bet you’re reading this hoping for some magic core strengthening, rotational power exercise to give you the midriff of a half lumbar-jack, half Chippendale hybrid.

Well sorry to disappoint you but this one’s more about time management and I don’t just mean replacing your 29th email check of the day and X-Factor re-runs with a [...]