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Tension Muscle contraction and relaxation As a topic this is really complicated, with calcium ions, ATP, tropomyosin and all sorts of other fancy words that don't help us in a practical sense. But essentially, there are times when a muscle may contract, and then it may hold that tension and "forget" to let go. We have all felt it. Maybe it was a cramp, a pulled muscle, an ongoing ache that wouldn't go away for weeks or months. Reducing this tension is a large part of my injur

Why are you training? It's a question that gets asked a lot. Why do we do these things? For most of the people I work with, training serves a purpose. It is to provide them with the strength,  mobility and endurance to go out and take on various challenges.  Be that sports, be it traversing the mountains, security work, or simply doing everyday stuff without pain and discomfort  So to this end I view creating training plans as a process of reverse engineering. Every client th

We are back! I hope you had a good break over Xmas and New Year, and are now ready to get stuck into another 12 months of awesomeness. If you have done as I have and eaten your bodyweight in mince pies and mash potatoes, then it'd be good advice to get back into the swing of things a little slowly. In my own training, I rolled it back 2 weeks. I'm following a plan that is based on Jim Wendlers 5/3/1, where the weights we lift each week are calculated on a "gym 1RM", or a 1 re