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…
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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…
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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…
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Matt Benyon“Female athletes endure two to eight times more anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, injuries than their male counterparts” This quote is from a University of Akron study and doesn’t bode well for female athletes who apparently are at much greater risk than their male training…
Continue reading Matt BenyonSick Threads Bro The issue of specificity in training is one that seems to bother many practitioners, obviously I want to train in a fashion that will improve my sport, be it MMA, BJJ or other combat sports. Loaded sports type drills (like weighted punching,…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonScramblers, We all want to be more powerful and there are many methods to acquire improved rate of force development, I have mentioned in the past approaches like french contrast this method how ever is hard! And to be honest is a method best used…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonAlmost every day I see the year ahead, not for myself but for the athletes I work with, I’m forever pulling up their year planners to see where on schedule we are. When you realise that there are only 52 weeks in a year myself,…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonOne of the most common flexibility complaints from Grapplers and BJJ’ers alike is the issue of tight hips. Sitting down really does a number on your ability to adduct (close) and abduct (open) our hips, for the veteran who does plenty of those weird spinny…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonI often get approached by time poor grapplers asking the best me what they should do in the gym, given what I posted about earlier this month its easy to be side tracked by the buffet of fitness options available, especially when magazines and websites…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonThis is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through. If you have any questions about this post or S & C in general as it relates to MMA and BJJ then please leave a comment below!…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonThis is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through. If you have any questions about this post or S & C in general as it relates to MMA and BJJ then please leave a comment below!…
Continue reading Matt Benyon Matt BenyonThis is an ongoing series of articles from guest blogger and Strength & Conditioning coach William Wayland of Powering Through. If you have any questions about this post or S & C in general as it relates to MMA and BJJ then please leave a comment below!…
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