Training · 11 min Is It Bad to Round Your Back? Ask the Strongmen Is it bad to round your back? The old-time strongmen loaded spinal flexion deliberately for 130 years. Here’s why fearing flexion may be making you weaker.
Training · 6 min Does Exercise Order Actually Affect Muscle Growth? Exercise order matters for strength but makes no meaningful difference to muscle growth. Here’s what the research shows, and what to audit instead.
Training · 5 min Don’t Get Stuck On Machines As A Beginner – Here’s How To Progress Faster When it comes to free weights vs machines, most beginners choose machines. They feel safer, simpler, more approachable. But here’s what I see time and again: people spend months on machines, then struggle to control even a light dumbbell when they finally move to free weights. Machines feel safer, but that feeling of safety ends […]
Training · 5 min Why Slower Training Progressions Builds Bigger Muscle Gains Why slower training progress builds more muscle. Learn to use RIR training and progressive overload for sustainable strength gains in Deptford SE8.
Training · 4 min Ditch The Chest Day – Here’s The Smarter Split You Should Be Doing When I chat with new clients and ask what their training looks like, I almost always hear some version of this: “I train three or four times a week. Day one is chest and triceps, day two is back and biceps, day three is legs, and day four is shoulders.” Sound familiar? This “bro split” […]
