You have made that commitment… You are willing to forgo all treats… You have changed your Facebook profile picture to Linda Hamilton/ Arnold Schwarzenegger from Terminator 2: Judgement Day or someone equally bad ass…. Your life is about to become a Nike commercial… But…. that was yesterday and now you are hungry. It will payContinue reading “Why Your Diet Doesn’t Work…”
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More news and views from Results FAST: Foam Rolling, Social Media and Fitness Industry Professionalism.
1.Someone asked me about why everyone foam rolls at our gym. In summary here are the benefits: Pre- workout: evidence currently suggests that there is an improvement in joint flexibility as well as no negative effect to performance (in comparison to just stretching which can see decrements). Short-term (in session) recovery: evidence suggests foam rollingContinue reading “More news and views from Results FAST: Foam Rolling, Social Media and Fitness Industry Professionalism.”
5 Reasons You Should Quit The Gym
I don’t normally post fitness business content but this piece highlights a few points for gym members and “fitness consumers.” 1. If you are a member of a gym, read their website. If the landing page informs you of what equipment they have in the gym then it’s time to quit. Why? There is aContinue reading “5 Reasons You Should Quit The Gym”
Things I Learnt From 2013….
Every year I tend to way in with my opinion of a few things that we either do at Results FAST, have borrowed of other people and use at Results FAST or changes in approach to the way we work as professionals at the gym. These often can be translated in to many things whetherContinue reading “Things I Learnt From 2013….”
Fascia, Pain and Corrective Exercise
A recent study has found that individuals with recurrent lower back pain have 25% thicker fascia in the lower back area than those with no pain. This was also reproduced in the neck area where increased fascial thickness of the scalenes (front of neck) was found in those with neck pain. Also it has beenContinue reading “Fascia, Pain and Corrective Exercise”
Land Training for Swimmers
We work with a lot of good junior swimmers at Results FAST. As we tend to specialize in shoulder and back care with these individuals it’s not surprising that of each of the junior athletes we have seen have some form of back or shoulder complaint or injury. Simply said if your out of pool programme isContinue reading “Land Training for Swimmers”
The Overtraining Myth…
Someone who I train on occasion recently said to me was that he thought he was “overtraining.” Now this is not the first time I have had this mentioned to me and I am sure many coach or trainer has had this said to them before. The fact is when someone says they are “overtraining” to meContinue reading “The Overtraining Myth…”
Bashing the Bootcamp…
Getting the form of an exercise to look right is a lot of the time the primary role when coaching. Indeed there are some great personal trainers, strength coaches and programme designers who in principal write good training regimes; a good programme though can be made great by informed coaching. This is part of theContinue reading “Bashing the Bootcamp…”
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