Guest post by William Wayland of Powering Through Performance Centre. BCAAs are present in any good source of protein, the anabolism overplayed, Glutamine was going to going to make us buff, then heal our guts, but the evidence failed to appear. High doses of Vitamin…
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Matt BenyonGuest post from William Wayland, of Powering Through Performance Centre. A question I’m often asked is my recommended workout requiring no equipment. I often get it from Golf pros looking for hotel room-based solutions for training, but also travelling grapplers and or those training in…
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Daniel Strauss is a man who knows a thing or two about grip strength. And jiu jitsu, too. Here, Scrambler and Polaris veteran The Raspberry Ape goes through some grip variations for pull-ups. Pull-ups are often described by lazy people like me as the best…
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William WaylandThe 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…
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William WaylandThe 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…
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William WaylandMaking 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…
Continue reading William WaylandAs 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…
Continue reading William Wayland William Wayland5 for fighting posts will about 5 exercises or ideas I use regularly with combat (and non combat athletes). This post is about KPI’s in the biggest lifts I employ. Strength Key Performance Indicators are way stones or development marks in an athletes strength profile….
Continue reading William WaylandHeres a program for you if you struggle with conventional squats or movements that place a lot of pressure on your back. I’ve been tinkering with the triphasic format (focus on specific eccentric, isometric and concentric movement) for a while now, trying different exercise selections and…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonAthlete monitoring using apps, straps and tablets is all the rage. The array of amount of information on the subject can be dazzling. Objective measurement such as HRV, Omegawave, velocity measuring, GPS offer us more insight into what is happening to our athletes than ever….
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mookie4a4_669hb6l7I have posted before about recovery routines before, elements of which can used after both sports training and weight training sessions. I have also spoken before about the need for deep belly breathing post training also. In brief using deep belly breathing we can re-establish…
Continue reading mookie4a4_669hb6l7 Matt BenyonAlactic based GPP Circuits is the final phase of the GPP method I’ve used with much success with UFC fighters, grapplers and boxers. Continuing from my last post Lactic based and Aerobic based GPP if you have not read these I suggest you go back…
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