Stuck in a fitness rut? Not hitting the goals that you want to achieve? Feeling like you have slipped back after that initial burst of progress that happened when you first started training? Never fear, you are not alone. It’s actually a pretty common theme for most people, once they get through that initial 3-6…Continue Reading
Getting in touch with your muscles No (despite what is suggested in the picture above) I am not going to suggest that you start caressing your body in a loving fashion, well at least not in public anyway. What I am going to talk about here relates to mindfulness and creating the mind body connection….Continue Reading
Hand Position Matters One of these pictures is a good hand position, the other, bad… I’ll let you work it out After a few weeks break on the “how to” front, we are back! This week I’m going to repeat what I say a million times a day and some people will be sick to…Continue Reading
For this weeks blog I have decided to write about my experience in doing the 2016 challenge, the lead up, the challenge itself and the aftermath. What is the 2016 Challenge you say? The 2016 Challenge came from a Calisthenics group called the Bar-barians, who are well known for their intense gruelling physical workouts that…Continue Reading
At its best Calisthenics (or bodyweight athletes in general) are capable of jaw dropping displays of strength, explosiveness, athleticism and aerial mastery that it can seem to be completely unattainable for the majority of people. What a lot of people forget or sometimes don’t even realise is that the people that you see doing these…Continue Reading
The festive season, so often the time when people fall off the exercise and health bandwagon and succumb to the endless festivities and overindulgence. Its happened to us all and yet every year that we go into this period with good intentions we somehow fall into the same traps. Its funny because we get time…Continue Reading