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Our Step-by-Step Training Program There’s a shocking amount of poor technique and redundant information in the fitness world, and combined with many a personal trainer insisting, incorrectly, you require extensive gym visits to see results, it’s easy to feel turned off by the entire industry. 3 sessions a week, employing the right training methods, will …

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And thus began my love affair with Kettlebells… My travels in search of alternative personal training regimes have lead me to numerous competitions, none of which challenged my notions of conventional fitness. In 2012, I found two organisations that not only challenged me, but revolutionised my thoughts on fitness. Enter the Russian Kettlebell Challenge (RKC), …

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Where did it all begin? 13 years as an Australian Navy Clearance Diver taught me what it meant to put mind over matter and push myself past the threshold of my own resistance. Whilst equipping me with a sense of strength, it didn’t provide me with the skills needed to train my body the way …

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I’m going to hit you with a question out of the blue here, and I really want you to think about it before reading ahead. What’s the most important thing in your life? Go ahead, take a moment. I’ll be here when you’re done. GOT AN ANSWER? Did you come up with an honest answer …

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The kettlebell military press has always been an integral part of my training plan regardless of my goals. This is partially because I have always struggled with pressing heavy bells and I know if stop I will regress rapidly. The other reason is because it’s just plain fun. There is a very primitive feeling one …

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Some helpful points for selecting a personal trainer There are many styles and methods of training available in this day of age. Some of these methods are effective and some aren’t. But is it that simple? Well for a raw beginner, just about anything could improve both absolute strength and strength endurance because the beginner …

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The Kettlebell Swing Why the kettlebell? The past 10 years or so the kettlebell has been advertised in every magazine, ad, or gym. It is not like kettlebells are new, they actually have been around for at least 300 years. The Russian military adopted the kettlebell because of it’s effectiveness in building strength in shorter …

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Exhalation is king! Being an ex military diver, both Army and Navy, for nearly 13 years I thought I knew a thing or two about breathing. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I was from the school of thought that Oxygen (O2) was good and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) was bad, meaning that the focus for …

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I was on the studio floor the other day giving some tips to a deadlifter who had just recently learnt how to deadlift, and I was trying to explain some of the psychological aspects involved. So said lifter had just failed at a relatively moderate weight. We went for a walk outside and I explained what …

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Back strong and beltless. As many of you may already know, I am an advocate for deadlifting beltless. Recently though however I was lifting in a close friends gym in South Africa, The Yard Athletic, when one of the strength coaches there asked me why I lifted beltless considering the fact that I compete. “You …

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