Let’s talk (speculatively) about hormones
This is not as much of an attack, but a call to reason… One thing I am seeing commonly on social media is coaches talking about hormones and their ability to influence them with the confidence of a doctor or endocrinologist. This is reasonable when adding speculation or talking about better practices in terms of […]
Top Down v Bottom Up Planning
The longer that I am coaching, I am starting to think more about how I think around planning blocks of training for individual clients, athletes and groups. The more I try to learn and understand, the less I realise I actually know. And I am saying this as someone that started coaching in 2003… In […]
Barbell Strategy
This post is not actually a rant on how to load or unload a barbell the correct way – although at times I think there should be one as a reference, but it is influenced by (completely taken from) the works of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and from his book Antifragile, which I read during lockdown […]
You are coming here to learn…
That sounds like an order or a threat, drumming up negative memories of school for some. Personally I find the prospect of learning exciting – it is growth and discovery. Let me delve into this a little more… I’ve been listening to a lot of the Non-Prophet podcast lately. For years I have admired their […]
1 year into a pandemic
I wish I was writing this with greater hindsight and more distance between myself and current events but I will proceed to tentatively document some observations – as always, I will remain open to changing my view entirely. And I don’t want to jinx things either. Like most of the western world, I saw the […]
A letter from a frustrated business owner…
Yesterday I woke up to hear the Taoiseach on the radio threaten 6 month lockdowns but telling us it will be ok because the government have budgeted for it. Today I woke up to an article on the RTE website, citing this government help as being one of the main reasons business have not folded […]
Rejection.
We are on the advent of another re-opening. I would love to be more excited about it but I am lingering somewhere between relief and exhaustion right now. I finished the last zoom class (hopefully!) of this lockdown and no sooner was I finished in one task, I automatically went straight into my work emails […]
Lockdown 2.0
So here we are again. I have been watching the frustration amongst gym (and pretty much all small business owners) rise over the past few weeks and I have felt a growing sense of guilt that I have not felt more angered personally or roused to make a statement or do anything at all about […]
Home Conditioning Workout
Here is a home workout to get stuck into… The plan here is to perform an exercise for 30 seconds, rest 30 seconds and move onto the next. There are 3 exercises per block and each block should be performed 4 times. This will translate to 12 minutes per block. As this is intended to […]
Making the most of home workouts
Currently we find ourselves in a strange time (unless you are lucky to be reading this in the future where Covid-19 is a distant memory!). We have all been forced to change our daily routine drastically and for all of us without a home gym, that means seriously imposed limitations on our training. Training in our […]