Here’s my latest rant and another of those which is media
reported and/or fitness trainer led.

The number of times I’ve heard trainers and read articles
that say sitting on a stability ball is the best thing for you to do in order
to protect your back in the office environment.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

Just check out the short audio below and everything will
become clearer on how the spine functions and what is the best way to protect
your spine in the office.

Until next time,

Train hard, train smart, make every rep count!

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Here’s my newest fitness rant, and one which is one of the biggest problems with most personal trainers and most of the media.

It’s to do with Core Stability.

When this term first started getting some headlines back about 10 years ago lots of people jumped on the idea that they could train and help people work on their core stability.

During this time we saw the proliferation of Pilates as it moved from a niche training regime almost exclusively used in the dancing arena to a mass participation fitness class designed to give anyone who participated in a class a ‘dancers’ like body.

We also saw the popularisation of stability balls and balance objects. As well as classes and equipment that claimed to be training your core stability – like some of those infomercial products.

Well it just doesn’t happen like that, the biggest problem is the ’spin doctors’, those people who look at the research and think I can use this to promote x, y or z.

In the majority of cases the people who spin it don’t actually understand what the science behind it all means and to what extent that can be utilised by the general population.

I’m not going to go into a whole long description of what core stability actually is as that would probably require some 1000’s of words.

Suffice to say what most people mean when they are talking about core stability, can better be classified as core strength – subtle differences in the two but very important ones.

Hope you enjoy it.

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It’s been a while since I posted, but here’s my latest fitness rant.

It’s the last of the deadlift rants and yet again one I see being done incorrectly not just by general gym goers, but by body builders and athletes alike.

In the New Year I have far more posts already planned so keep an eye out for those.

In the mean time if you are in to ‘Hardcore Workouts’ then you might want to check out this blog –

The Hardcore Workout

Here’s today’s rant!

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Here’s the next fitness rant and the second about deadlifts.

I first became aware of people doing deadlift like this (incorrectly that is) when I was playing professional rugby.

You would find some of the more ego driven rugby players lifting the deadlift like this so that they could feel really good about themselves and state that they could deadlift ‘x’ kg.

So take note if you want to lift weights from the floor with the correct technique.

Until next time.

Remember train hard, train smart, make every rep count.

Alex

If you want to see the correct technique then visit my other site Weight Training Technique by **clicking here**

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Why oh why is it that these big multi national fitness magazines not actually do their home work.

I recently purchased a magazine and found to my horror that they were incorrectly showing their readers how to do the deadlift.

Now if you’re not up with your exercise classifcations this is a fantastic exercise and one that I teach in my Weight Training Technique System.

Any way one day they might get it right…Idiots!!

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Today’s rant is one quite close to my heart.

Being a qualified coach I have a real problem with these so called ‘qualified’ personal trainers that just stand and count the number reps you do.

If you have a trainer who is not working with you to correct your posture and weight training technique then you are not getting what I would call ‘qualified’ training.

As I say in the rant, not everyone is like that. There are some very good ones around but don’t be afraid to sack your trainer if they are just good counters and machine loaders.

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You would not probably believe the number of people that ask me that question.

If I got a £1 for every time…..blah, blah, blah (you know the rest).

I’m not sure where the ‘cardio is best for fat loss’ comes from but it is probably because some media types took some of the research out there and spun it into a story with out fully understanding what the research was actually doing.

So here is the truth as is known to a number of top fitness professional:

‘The best way to burn fat is to do interval cardio training rather than long slow boring cardio’.

It buns more fat, you get it done quicker and get the results you were looking for.

Listen to my rant on this below.

Remember train hard, train smart, make every rep count.

Best wishes,

Alex

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Below you’ll find the first of my new podcast rants.

This episode is all about the terrible biceps curl technique you see many people all around the world performing.

It’s only a short (less than 2 minute) rant and the first of many about all the fitness lies and secrets that aren’t often shared with those who could get the best results interms of fat loss and muscle gain.

Enjoy!

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