Periodisation can be defined as the manipulation of training variables such as volume (sets x repetitions), intensity (load/weight), recovery, frequency (per week) and exercises to produce a positive adaptive response over a training cycle, whilst reducing the likelihood of performance plateaus. Achieving positive adaptation can be achieved by utilising the principles of overload (increased volume…
Have you ever noticed how many signatures people get on their casts when they break a limb? Isn’t strange how at school everyone would run over to sign their name because having a broken limb was cool? But, you tell someone you have mental health issues and they run in the other direction. That’s the…
What’s the likelihood, you’re reading this because you think you should warm up, and you know you should, but you don’t. That’s good, it means that you’re thinking the right way! You don’t feel like you have enough time to fit a warm-up into your routine before you have to be somewhere else. You shouldn’t…
What a great opportunity for all of us to be participating in daily exercise, whether it’s to maintain fitness, improve performance, make regular exercise your new norm or lose a bit of weight. Whatever it may be, the BUZZ words that are prehabilitation or injury prevention exercises are probably not high on the agenda. Before…