Strongman Training with Glenn Ross

Grip is a tough thing to train. “A shin bone takes 4 hours to cook” according to Glenn Ross, and the forearm is just as tough. Grip can be trained specifically 3 times a week, at the end of your normal workout.

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30 years of strength training

45 today!

strength coach ex15 2tyI first started strength training when I was 15 years old. My Dad had given me his old power bar and I started using that in my bedroom doing curls, presses and squats. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was doing something. I worked at my part time jobs for six months to save up for a set of plastic spinlock dumbbells and a flimsy bench with bar rack.

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Strength and Power in Rugby: Part 3

rugby power trainingThe Rugby World Cup is in it’s knockout stages. National Fitness adviser Simon Worsnop looks at current strength and power measurements.

Strength and Power Levels

Since the onset of full time professionalism in both sports strength levels have increased so that today’s players possess higher strength levels than similar aged recreational players

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Strength and Power in Rugby: part 2

What about the Ruck and Maul?

rugby maul strengthThe ruck is specific to rugby union and is where the tackled player is off his feet and tackled to ground. The average ruck lasts in the region of 4 or 5 seconds and therefore the primary physical determinant for success is power.

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Strength and Power Concepts, Jim Radcliffe

“The best way to get in shape is not to get out of shape.”

Jim Radcliffe has been coaching at Oregon University for 26 years (That is longer than most “S&C coaches” in the UK have been alive). Unlike a lot of people who have been in situ for a long time, he isn’t resting on his laurels in a comfort zone of repeating the same thing year after year.

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Starting Strength Training 3

Ok, so lets look at some of the things I would put into chunks of training.
The session might be divided into:
Warm Up
Session Part1,2…etc
Warm down\ Finisher

The overall priority of each bit must be that it has a specific purpose, it can’t just be doing stuff.

Warm ups: I get athletes moving, so that it can either complement the session, or it is getting them ready to work harder.

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