Training
The Press-Up: A Standard Rarely Met
The press-up is the movement people are most confident they can already do, and the one where our standard surprises them.
Training
Training
How a Strength Cycle Works
You will have noticed the same lift coming round on the same day each week, with a number written next to it. That is a strength cycle. Here is what it is do…
beginners
Twelve Weeks From Today
Today is the 30th of September. Twelve weeks from today is the 23rd of December. Twelve weeks is long enough for the following to happen.
Training
Where the Strength Work Sits in a Session
We put the lifting before the workout. Warm-up, then strength, then the metcon, and that's been the order all summer. From November it changes, and the strength work moves to the back end of the hour.
Training
What Two Sessions a Week Buys You
The question comes up near the end of most first phone calls, usually apologetically. What's the minimum? People expect to be told five.
CrossFit
Why We Score
Every workout here has a score. A time, a number of reps, a load — something goes on the board at the front and something goes in the app. For a nervous beginner that looks like a leaderboard, and that can be somewhat off-putting.
Movement
Touch-and-Go or Singles
Twenty-one deadlifts at a moderate weight, somewhere in a workout. The clock starts and within three reps you've made a decision that determines the next four minutes, and you probably made it without thinking.
Lifestyle
Your Watch's Recovery Score
You wake up, reach for the phone, and it tells you you're 34% recovered. You haven't sat up yet.
Training
You've Entered a 10k. Now What?
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
Farmer's Carries and the Shopping
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.
Active Ageing
Testosterone After Forty: What Training Does and Doesn't Do
The ads have found you by now — Numan, Manual, a finger-prick test through the door, a mate who says he feels twenty-five again. Meanwhile you're tired at 3pm and the middle is softer than it was.
CrossFit
Why You Should Enter a Competition
Move- Lift- Work is on Saturday 10 October, here, in our gym. Three events — Move is the engine piece, Lift is the lift, Work is the CrossFit workout. Individual entries. Sign up on WodBoard, and entries close on 21 September.