Scramblog I’ve written before about Aerobic and Lactate GPP circuits we use at Powering Through. We use these blocks to prepare athletes before more intensive strength and conditioning cycles but also to raise base physical qualities, such as general fitness, resting heart rate, BP and local lactate tolerance. We take simple compound exercise pairings and put
Scramblog The masters athlete, the taped up, cauliflower eared, long warm-up taking, joint cracking, slow to get going leaders in our sport. Masters tournaments seem to be more popular than ever. A large population of my athletes in grappling sports seem to be masters athletes ranging from 35-50. Why? This is possibly due to the fact
MMA The issues of problem weight cuts is a persistent one. This was recently highlighted at UFC Japan when Mizuto Hirota attempted to make weight. You can clearly see Hirota struggle to even make it too the scales, let alone get off them again. Its worse still for an opponent that made weight effectively and now
Strength & Conditioning Making ambition reality. Those of you that have followed scramblog since it started maybe familiar with the strength & conditioning posts I’ve been putting up for a few years now. I’ve posted less frequently recently but for a good reason I’ve opened my own Strength & Conditioning facility After 5 days of hard graft, we
Scramblog Hi Guys, Girls, Coaches & Athletes just wanted to draw your attention to an excellent video lecture by Coach Carmen Bott, who is a sports scientist and a strength coach who works primarily with wrestlers. Conditioning is an often tricky subject which confuses many, so is one for those of you trying to get a
Strength & Conditioning As a coach I’m never afraid to explain movements I use outside of the normal paradigm. When I program my experience informs my exercise selection ever increasingly, what I do try to avoid is becoming dogmatic about exercise selection. My embrace of the safety bar split squat has taught me much about loading athletes in