Lift of the Quarter: Left Hand Snatch
Each quarter of the year Brian Hamill of South East Counties Weightlifting and the Woking Centre of Excellence hosts a mail entry competition for the Lift of the Quarter. For this quarter, Q1 2010, the lift is the Left Hand Snatch- good luck if you’re not left handed!
The Lifts of the Quarter come from a [...]
Dips on Rings!
When I first put my Top Ten Exercises up on the site, I had a few comments and emails asking why I didn’t have any chest exercises, well this dip will certainly target the chest. Regular dips or dips performed on parallel bars are a great exercise, performing them on rings increases the benefits.
A dip [...]
Pull and Chin your way Up!
Pull Ups and Chin Ups are in the top ten and with very good reason. In terms of measuring your relative strength and relative strength endurance not many exercises are better than the Pull Up or Chin Up.
This is why they are often used as a measure or assessment in the military all over [...]
Kettlebell Sport Training Camp
The Trojans Lifting Club are happy to announce our first ever Kettlebell Sport Training camp with WKC Coach Gregor Sobocan.
In just over 18months Gregor Sobocan has taken his Kettlebell Sport lifting ability to an international standard .
Not only has he improved his own performance and ability in a very short space of time [...]
Going Paleolithic!!
It’s something I’ve been considering for a while. I’ve been interested in how the body has evolved, how it is meant to move and what it should eat for some time. More recently I’ve become even more interested in what we ate before we started modifying our food sources.
See between the last 5-10 000 years [...]
Kettlebell Snatch
As mentioned in My Top Ten this is another exercise performed standing up and as such is fantastic for applying force into the ground and out through your hand, just as you do hitting, throwing, punching and whatever else you do when force is projected into the floor, up through your body and out through [...]
