A Guide To Strength & Conditioning For Combat Sports
“Focus on performance, not failure.”
– Art DeVany
The Six Practices of Being an Athlete
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. – Miyamoto Musashi Athletic Practice Your sport or art should obviously be the primary component of these six practices. The key here is to understand that your athletic practice is the most important […]
Gymnasticbodies: Foundation One training
Simon is one of our coaches who specialises in one-on-one and small group training. Below he shares his experience and thoughts on participating in the Gymnasticbodies method of training. I have always enjoyed doing bodyweight training. I think we should all be able to control our bodies in space, whether it is in a basic functional way, or by taking it […]
The return of roadwork: Developing aerobic baseline capacity for athletes
A decade or so ago the phrase “roadwork” would have conjured up the image of a tracksuit clad athlete stoically jogging through the early morning mist and up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the inspirational tune “Gonna Fly Now’. In recent times though, roadwork has fallen out of fashion in the athletic community; […]
Roller Derby: A Case Study in Sports Specific Strength Training
Rubi Doom and ElaStomp are both Roller Derby athletes who compete in the Canberra Roller Derby League as well as nationally. Despite their separate team alliances (Rubi plays for the Black n’ Blue Belles and Stomp’s on the Surly Griffins) they’ve been training with me as a pair for a couple of years. They’ve made […]
