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4 Ways Frequent Intense Exercise Keeps Your Heart Healthy
As athletes, we take pride in our physical conditioning. Even though heart health isn’t something that’s at the forefront of our minds when we’re working out, it’s a muscle that gets stronger with training like any other. Some people suggest...
6 Ways To Improve Dry Callused Hands From Lifting
Patches of dry, callused skin cover the hands of most athletes.They’re hard to avoid if you’re lifting weights on a regular basis and can become uncomfortable or even painful.But you don’t have to live with them. There are a number...
6 Sandbag Exercises To Create A Full-Body Functional Workout
Functional strength is important for athletes because it allows us to transfer athleticism into different situations.Sandbags are a great piece of equipment to utilise for building functional strength, as you’re able to mimic real-life movements more closely in many cases...
Improve Your Session By Using These 3 Warm-Up Components
Most athletes overlook just how important a warm-up can be. We see it as something that has to be done. Some of us try to get away with a few half-hearted minutes of loosening up or even skip the warm-up...
It's A Myth That Heavy Training Weakens Your Immune System
Have you ever been told high intensity training leaves you more vulnerable to illnesses? It’s a widely held belief that emerged in the 1980s and ‘90s called “open window theory”.The idea is that there’s an open window for illness to...
Are You Drinking Too Much Caffeine & Can It Hurt Your Training?
Caffeine can be a great tool to get your body and mind recharged and ready for action.Whether it’s through coffee, tea, energy drinks, pre-workouts or tablets, the amount of caffeine we consume can mount up quickly.Unfortunately, taking too much can...
Eddie Hall Reveals His Daily Cryotherapy & Red Light Heat Recovery Routine
We all have our own recovery habits that we try to stick to and the best athletes are usually the most consistent in taking care of the little things. Eddie Hall is no exception to that. The 2017 World’s Strongest...
Top 6 Protein Bars For Convenient Post-Workout Nutrition
Protein intake has become a top priority for athletes to ensure adequate recovery and improvements. With such high demand, the protein bar industry has grown in size to £3.29bn globally in 2019, and is projected to reach nearly £5bn by...
2 Techniques Elite Athletes Use To Perform Under Pressure
Physical conditioning is a huge part of the puzzle for an athlete, but it’s worthless if you don’t have the mental skills to be able to perform when it matters.One quality all great champions have in common is the ability...