Training
You signed up in a moment of optimism, probably out for dinner one night, and it's in six or eight weeks. You train two or three times a week already and you're reasonably fit, so the assumption is that you'll be fine.
Movement
Four bags of shopping and fifteen metres from the boot to the front door. Two trips or one? Everyone goes for one, and what gives out is the hands, then the shoulders.
Movement
Front squat, halfway through the set. The elbows come down, the bar rolls forward onto your fingers, and the next thing you know you're squatting like a pooping dog. Everybody has had this. It's usually blamed on wrist mobility, and that's often not the full picture.
Movement
You hang off the bar, the legs come up to about hip height, and stop. It feels like your abs have run out. So you go home and do sit-ups, and next week the same thing happens.
Movement
Wednesday's session had sixty walking lunges in it. Thursday you feel fine. Friday you're going down the stairs at Amersham station sideways, hanging on to the handrail.
Movement
Watch someone put a sock on. Some stand there and do it. Others sit down on the bed or reach for the wall, and have stopped noticing that they do.
Movement
A 9kg ball, a target ten feet up the wall, and a movement you can teach in ninety seconds. Squat down, stand up, throw. Catch it and go again. Nothing technical about it.
Training
Stand with your back against a wall — heels, backside, upper back and head all touching it. Now put your arms straight overhead and try to touch the wall with your hands shoulder width apart and without your ribs flaring off it. Most adults can't. If you can'
Training
The kettlebell swing is the most misunderstood movement in the building, and the way most people do it is a squat with a bell in their hands. Watch a class and you'll see it. The knees travel forward, the chest drops, the hips go down, and the bell
Squat
If you only ever trained one movement for the rest of your life, it would be the squat, and it wouldn't be close. The squat is how you get out of a chair. Off the floor. Off a toilet, in and out of a car, up from the
Training
Mira asked about the kit — grips, belts, tape, when to start using them and how much of it is theatre. Some of it is theatre. Most of it isn't. Here it is in the order you'll need it. Grips. When you're doing volume on
Training
Lauren asked me what she should actually be doing after a session — stretching, foam rolling, all of it — and how to catch up if she's neglected it for a couple of years. My answer surprised her, so I'll give you the same one. Stop planning the