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The Impact of Detraining on Physical Fitness: What You Need to Know Exercise plays a crucial role in maintaining physical health and well-being, but life can sometimes interfere with our training routines. When regular exercise is paused or significantly reduced, “detraining” occurs. Understanding detraining and its effects can help you Read more…
As we draw to close off another long season, players and teams are already preparing for the next. I can bet that most parents reading this article have had kids playing/training 1-3 sports, no less than 3x/week, if not every day across school and club and have been training since Read more…
You may have seen or heard us use the words “Periodised Training” when describing our services, which definitely makes us sound professional and fancy. But what is periodised training? Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that you only train for a period and then stop because you have your gains for life. Read more…
Many people know about the physical benefits of exercise but less is known about the effect of exercise on brain health and mood. This area is becoming increasingly bigger in research and there have been some interesting findings come out. A review performed by Basso and Suzuki (2017) found the Read more…
Winter is here and with it, a plethora of wonderful viruses and sicknesses ready to cosy up in your body and test your immune system out. While I wish that I could write an article on how “exercise completely clears your body of all deadly viruses”, sadly it is untrue Read more…
When we get injured, it is understandable to think that abandoning all of our training and waiting for time to heal our injury is the most effective method. Unfortunately, we do this out of fear of not wanting to make our injury any worse, rather than determination to making it Read more…
Firstly, lets be clear about what we mean when we say “soreness”. We’re talking about that stiff and achy feeling you get in your muscles 24-48 hours after your workout and then stays around for roughly the same time. This is referred to as delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS Read more…
There is a common misconception that when starting a training program for the first time, the intention should be to provide adolescents with heavy weights to make them fitter, faster and stronger or address low tone. This is not the case at all! Does strength training make us stronger? Absolutely Read more…
Prehab for the ankle joint is often overlooked or undervalued, however it can be crucial for injury prevention and performance. Beyond the movement provided by the joints in our feet our ankles are highly important for providing stability and mobility in both sporting tasks and everyday life tasks. Prehab routines Read more…