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Jonny Pain On Testing Your 3RM
As a coach who’s been around for quite some time (count the grey hairs), I’ve looked at a lot of programs and a lot of athletes, as well as been privileged enough to have a lot of goals shared with...
Jonny Pain on 'The Perfect Program'
The Perfect Program…does it exist? Well, no. But also, yes. In my humble opinion, the perfect program is the program that will allow you, over aprolonged period of time, to work consistently towards all of the goals you may have...
Jonny Pain on Pre-Fatigue Training
Hey again! JP Here! This month, why don’t we dive into our concept of pre-fatigue? ‘Cos it’s horrible and you’ll hate it is probably a fair answer but lets dig a little deeper and see if we can’t convince you...
Jonny Pain on The Evolution of Strength & Endurance Training
The concept of strength training for strength or endurance is not new. Indeed, warriors, messengers, royalty and the oppressed the world over have been using training of some variety or another to augment their overall capability for as long as...
Key rucking terms/ information explained by Jonny: ● “Remove Pack” means immediately taking your ruck pack off before the nextinstruction. 15s rest is given here to attend to this. ● “Add Pack” means immediately putting the ruck pack on before...
Meet The Team: Zara Piergianni
Introducting the latest edition to the Built For Athletes team: Zara Piergianni. Zara started her HYROX journey back in 2022, finishing 3rd overall at World Championships in Manchester. Since then, Zara has been an Elite15 athlete qualifying and competing...
What on earth is a ‘Hybrid Athlete’?
What on earth is a ‘Hybrid Athlete’? Well, that’s a question that has been floating to the top of the pile a lot currently on social media and while there are many answers and claims, there is also an...
The following workout is taken from my Strength and Marathon Plan, which can be found here - https://www.omnia-performance.com/training-plans - and represents our ‘Pre-Fatigue’ concept which is a mainstay of programming. Fair warning though…this can be a tough (and quite long)...
How to hold onto your motivation when training gets tough
How to hold onto your motivation when training gets tough Maintaining motivation during challenging gym sessions is a common struggle, especially with additional hurdles of dark nights and cold weather, but there are several strategies to help you stay on...