Changing careers used to feel like a dramatic plot twist. These days, it often looks like a normal life decision people make when their work stops being what it used to be, their priorities shift or their industry moves on without them. Some people want a role with clearer progression….
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When One Programme Produces Ten Different Outcomes Most coaches have seen this play out. Two clients start the same resistance training block on the same day, follow the same instructions, complete the same sets and reps, and still finish with noticeably different results. One seems to take off quickly. The…
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Warm-ups feel like one of those unquestioned parts of training life. Most coaches ask clients to do one, most athletes roll through one automatically, and every gym floor has its own interpretation of what “getting ready” looks like. Yet when you look closely at how people actually warm up during…
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Clients train hard, show up for sessions, try to stay consistent… and sometimes still feel flat, tired or stuck. Every PT has seen this. Programmes that once worked start losing their punch. Strength stalls. Energy drops. Mood changes. You try a few tweaks, maybe adjust some volume, but it just…
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Why Menopause Training Needs a Smarter Approach Training in midlife often feels different. Recovery seems slower, energy dips appear from nowhere and progress sometimes stalls despite doing the same workouts that once delivered results. Science is beginning to explain why and it comes down to more than motivation or age…
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The pre-exhaustion method has floated around gyms since the 1970s, originally popularised by Arthur Jones, the creator of Nautilus machines. The idea sounds clever enough: fatigue a muscle with an isolation exercise first, then hit it again immediately in a compound lift. The thinking was that the target muscle (prime…
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Training is all about finding the balance between progress and recovery. Push too hard and the body breaks down, but take it too easy and nothing changes. Athletes and gym-goers are constantly chasing the sweet spot where adaptation happens without creating unnecessary damage. A recent study has taken a close…
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As we get older, muscle becomes less responsive to the usual “grow” signals from protein and training. Researchers (Keng et al. 2025) call this anabolic resistance, which is dampened muscle protein synthesis (MPS) response to amino acids and mechanical loading that nudges the body towards muscle loss over time. Mechanisms…
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If you spend time with kettlebells in your programming, you know the swing can be a powerhouse move for developing hip speed, posterior chain strength and conditioning. A recent 2025 paper in Sports Biomechanics has given us some very useful data on how performance changes across repeated sets of maximal-effort…
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Busy diaries don’t need to be a barrier to results. With a clear plan and smart use of time-efficient methods, clients training one to three times a week can still build strength, improve fitness and feel progress within a few weeks. The research now backs small, well-targeted doses of work…
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