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Managing Stress.
There is a close relationship between stress and performance. This relationship can exist in both a negative and positive way. Stress is a stimulus that causes a physiological or psychological effect. Good stress is termed...
Improving Strength Through Eccentric Training
We want to increase strength. No surprises there. And yet we fail to use eccentric training as a mainstay of our programming. So what is eccentric training, and how can we use it to maximise performance. Eccentric training...
Inflammation
It's beginnings are all too familiar. An ankle rolls. A knee gives way. An muscle starts to hurt when it shouldn't. Welcome to inflammation. For the sake of this post, we discuss the inflammation caused by injury or trauma...
Hungry? Put It In Your Diary
Exercise, nutrition and weight loss programs make use of food diaries. Science supports this contention. Research tells us that by being aware of what we eat we eat less. This works not only on a micro scale (per meal), but also on a much larger scale – with a...
How Much Exercise Do You Need?
How much physical activity is needed to drastically reduce the risk of disease? The answer might be surprising. You should already know that exercise intensity is the single most important variable in maximising the health benefits of exercise. You can read more in my...
All About Sleep
Sleep is a highly sought, frequently underachieved necessity of life. And yet, people don't really know what's going on when they're asleep. Probably because they're... well... asleep. Sleep is an immediately reversible, perceptual wall between the conscious mind and...