Train Like a Dog to Look Like a God -Penthesilea Train Like a Dog to Look Like a God – the dyslexic trainers manual to add lean tissue and reduce body fat! This Train Like a Dog to Look Like a God Blog is focusing on Weight Training for Women and is named after Penthesilea- the […]
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Craig’s Home Workouts Here are two home workouts that you can do in the privacy of your own home. All you are going to need to complete these workouts is a timer (gym boss), a mat, weights (for one of the workouts) and motivation to push yourself. AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) Body Weight
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Abdominal Workout Summers here and we all want to work our abdominals so that we look good on the beach. So here is my Manny Pacquiao Abdominal Workout. All you need is a mat then perform the following exercises: Abdominal Crunch Abdominal Crunch Left Abdominal Crunch Right Ankle tap Right Ankle tap Left Abdominal Scissors
THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC Obesity as defined as simply a condition of abnormal or excess body fat, to the extent that health may be impaired. According to Health Survey England (England, 2017)Obesity is estimated to be the fourth-largest risk factor toward death siting behind hypertension, smoking, and high cholesterol. Obesity, however, is not classified by someone’s
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STRESS PART 2 – CORTISOL Cortisol, the so-called stress hormone is a bit of a double-edged sword, particularly with regards to it’s relationship with fat. Produced in your adrenal glands, cortisol is primarily a catabolic agent. Although the word catabolism is normally associated with muscle loss, it simply refers to the breakdown of substance for
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Stress is more common than ever in todays world. Common triggers such as work, mortgages, relationships and finance all contribute to stress. The body responds to these stresses by triggering adrenal responses. This response is known as the fight or flight response, whereby glycogen in the liver and muscles are activated for use as a
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In my last blog ‘OCR Training‘ the first section I mentioned that is important was Nutrition and Recovery. This weeks blog is going to look at the Foam Roller and how it can help you with your obstacle course training – or general training. Foam Rollers are perfect for massaging out tight and sore muscles and can
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So you want to do your first OCR or want to improve for your next one? Where do you start training? There are many aspects of an obstacle course race that you need to train for and all are of importance if you want to do well on the course. So what do we need
As mentioned in a previous blog (OCR Training) recovery is the first pillar of the hierarchy of needs- in my opinion. We looked at how using a foam roller will aid recovery and in this blog we will look at nutrition. In order to look at nutrition for recovery we first need to look at
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If you are new to obstacle course racing or are looking to improve on some of the obstacles then grip training should be part of your training. Grip training will help you massively with rings, monkey bars, rope climb, log carry or many of the rigs as well as other related exercises such as deadlifts