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Hi Team, had to happen, we can no longer hold the best Eleiko price in the southern hemisphere. Eleiko Bounce Plates, Eleiko Powerlifting Cast Plates, Olympic and Power Bars, Full Sets and Racks will all have a price increase on Jan 1st. Beat the Eleiko Price Rise! For more than 50 years Eleiko has taken…
Block work I believe is a much under used modality for training, often just the domain of Olympic lifters, it can add both variety and supplement your more traditional training elements. A good solid set of pulling blocks should form the cornerstone of every gym from the garage dwellers to Olympic training centres around the world. By performing…
I am not a sports scientist; I am a strength and conditioning coach. One man’s opinion. No matter what else the person has if they can not communicate, empathise and organize then every other qualification they have is useless. Personally, I do not think you need a degree to do this job, it helps when…
Many strength coaches have a well guarded secret. And that secret is this: strength exercises typically have boring and lackluster names. So to make them sound more interesting and exotic, the name of an Eastern Bloc country is added to the movement, transforming an ordinary squat into a Bulgarian Squat and the average deadlift into a Romanian deadlift!…
This is my favorite Triceps Power Program for beginners to advanced strength athletes. I gave this workout to Personal Training clients and got a great result. You should always be mixing up the variation of tricep extensions you are doing, yes one way would be crossing over to a BB. Triceps again Also look at variations with…
Hey there, just watched a very interesting you tube of the Chinese weightliters at the national training camp, they were doing sumo stance high pulls, looked a very interesting variation, must give it a trial and see for myself, well worth anyone taking a look at what is actually done with Olympic lifters, as I…
Author Ashley Jones A few years ago I wrote an article for Milo on using three exercises of a similar theme in sequence, increasing load moving from one to the next. My rationale for the use of these triplets is that they cater for my needs of an intense short duration workout that I can…
The following article is sure to provoke a steady flow of feedback, as it is a much disputed fact of strength development. Arguments will be presented from both views and I will then attempt to give readers my own personal opinion of what I feel to be the primary tool in improving strength levels. Olympic…