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By BJ Rule on February 04, 2010  |  Comments 4

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 [...]

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Dips on Rings!
By BJ Rule on February 04, 2010  |  Comments 0

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 [...]

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By BJ Rule on January 28, 2010  |  Comments 0

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 [...]

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Kettlebell Sport Training Camp
By BJ Rule on January 22, 2010  |  Comments 0

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 [...]

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Going Paleolithic!!
By BJ Rule on January 22, 2010  |  Comments 8

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 [...]

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By BJ Rule on January 14, 2010  |  Comments 2

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 [...]

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Combat and Conditioning

The Mill Hill Combat and Conditioning Academy has been a blog topic twice before on the Trojans website, mainly because one of the Trojans is a part owner and the strength and conditioning coach at the academy.
Andy (mentioned above) has been trying to get me up to his Academy for the last couple of [...]

Traditional ‘Biathlon’ Kettlebell Sport Comp. Sunday 21st March 2010.

Traditional ‘Biathlon’ Kettlebell Sport Comp. Sunday 21st March 2010.

The Trojans are happy to announce our next Kettlebell Sport Competition. This competition will be held at the OLF Training Centre in London on Sunday the 21st.

Venue: OLF Training Centre, 174-176 Hither Green Lane, London SE13 6QB
Date: Sunday 21st March 2010
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm (Registration and weigh in for competitors at 9:30am)
Cost: £10 registration fee [...]

A night at the Woking Centre of Excellence.

A night at the Woking Centre of Excellence.

Well tonight I finally did it. I’ve been trying to get there for a while but kept coming up with excuses of one type or another. Tonight I went down to the Woking Centre of Excellence in… Woking!
I’ve mentioned this Weightlifting gym with head coach Brian Hamill in the past. A good mate of [...]

Kettlebell Jerks

The Kettlebell Jerk is the next on the list of My Top Ten and this is why:
Any kind of Jerk does you good. The Kettlebell Jerk has all the same benefits plus some very specific benefits.
Any Jerk is all about applying force into the ground, through your hips and body and out through your hands. [...]