Those of you in the gym will know Cormac well and have seen some of the progress he has made recently with his goals of leaning up. When he first came to SDSC he initially wanted to bulk up and once he achieved this target, his next goal was to ‘cut’ to 84kg. When Cormac sets a target it...
This article will probably be a little biased. I love the Romanian Deadlift. Unlike the conventional Deadlift, it doesn’t come with the threat of leaving me incapacitated for days after the workout. I don’t disregard the Deadlfit at all, but due to my own training age and injury exercise history, pe...
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately as I have been nursing an injured wrist after an over zealous submission attempt from a training partner. As always, I was asking myself if the injury could have been avoided. BJJ is a hugely rewarding and equally cruel sport. The risk of inj...
I have a very active mind and as homemade therapy of sorts, I tend to jot down notes, scribble reminders, write blog posts. Whether it be on a scrap of paper, my iphone, ipad, notes or my laptop. Inevitably this leads to more angst (and scraps of paper scattered all over the apartment) and lots of t...
This is going to be a short article, at least by my standards anyway. It was originally a long facebook post but I though damn it, I want a few hits to the website. ANYWAY… Yea it’s about Rhabdomyolysis but I promise its short. Some of you may have noticed that there has been a lot of mudslinging di...
I’m a little late in writing this – I tend to start most articles with that preamble. I travelled to New Jersey in July to meet Zach. It was a journey that was about 2 years in the making and here is a little background to my story, I’ll try to keep it as short as possible! I had initially become aw...
Another great guest post from Cormac… In a previous blog post I listed an example of what I eat on a daily basis. It is clearly a lot of food (for a human at least). Because of that, I can expect to spend about 1 hour and 30 minutes a day preparing food, and about 3 hours a week making trips t...
When Cormac came to SDSC initially, his aim was to increase muscle mass – he has a bodyweight target in mind and we are still working towards it. With a combination of strength training in the group sessions and a specific diet plan to increase weight with as little bodyfat as possible (his bo...
Here is a short video of a hotel workout that Steph and myself put together when I was Stateside for my internship with Zach Even Esh (more to follow on that). As with most hotel gyms, we were slightly limited by space – surrounded by leg isolation machines, lack of free weights and no barbell...
Following chats with a lot of people recently, especially alcohol induced ones on the night out I thought it would be beneficial to write a small (ish) piece about my SDSC experience as many comments made by people to me in the gym particularly relating to their training goals sound very familiar to...