Posts Tagged ‘iron’
3 keys to Knee health
There are 3 key things to help keep your knees healthy:
To look after your knees, you need to
- Strengthen
- Stabilise
- Stretch
This week’s module of the Sports Training System includes more details on how to prevent knee injuries.
Read MoreWhat you can learn about injury prevention from mowing your lawn.
Training too hard too heavy too soon?
Two weeks ago I made my first stab at mowing the lawn. After a mild winter, it has grown quite a bit and my Flymo was not up to the task. It soon overheated.
I was not partciularly looking forward to having to buy a whole new mower, but those cunning people at Flymo have designed it for people like me.
Read MoreStuntman Training: warming up
How to start training to be a stuntman
This week I got asked to train a young man who wants to become a Stuntman (next week Batman, the week after Train Driver?). He has been following a running programme, alternating with the ubiquitous beach weights.
Normally I would start with a screening of some sort, but I thought we could just see how he moves first using some of our varied warm ups that we do. Short of asking him to dive off a cliff or crash a burning car, I thought that might give me an idea of how well prepared he was for stunt work.
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