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How Do Rugby League Players Train?
How Do Rugby League Players Train? Rugby league is one of the toughest sports on the planet and its players are revered for their all-round fitness. Currently, the Australian NRL is one of the few professional sports leagues playing fixtures,...
5 Health Benefits Of Turmeric & Curcumin
Turmeric is one of the most popular health supplements available. The spice has been used as a medicine for centuries and, as with many health products, there is a string of claims about what it can do. Here’s a look...
With all manner of different approaches and theories of how to improve fitness, things can become complicated pretty quickly. But when you boil it down, there’s one overarching principle that is applied universally: stress and recover. It’s a wonderfully simple...
Training Twice A Day: The Pros & Cons
There’s a degree of temptation among athletes who are greedy for gains to train as much as possible. One way of training more is to start working out twice a day, but it comes with both pros and cons. Here’s...
How To Train To Heart Rate Effectively
Heart rate training is a subject which splits opinion. Some coaches swear by it and encourage their athletes to make the most of technology while others see it as a dangerous over complication. In decades gone by, athletes managed to...
The Fitness Programme Of A Snowboarder
While the stereotypical snowboarder image is the relaxed and life-loving type, the pros certainly take their preparations for hitting the slope seriously. They don’t shy away from hard work in the gym, but the specifics of their fitness programmes are...
Anyone who has benefitted from sports massage therapy knows the kind of pressure that needs to be applied to muscles and pressure points to feel a benefit. Even though you can be left squirming and gripping the massage table for...
The argument for working on mobility vs flexibility to benefit training and every day activity. Is range of motion as important as strength in movement?
6 Resistance Band Warm-Up Exercises
We all know the importance of implementing a thorough warm-up routine to minimise injury risk and increase performance. Resistance bands are a great piece of equipment to incorporate into that process. Here are six resistance band exercises to try before...