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St. Albans Kettlebells, Corrective Exercise, Performance Training & Personal Fitness

If you looking for personal training in St. Albans and Hertfordshire, if you are looking to get fitter, slim down and tone up, build a shirt ripping set of pecs and biceps or want to perform better at your chosen sport; whether it be golf, football, martial arts or even darts(!), this website will be jampacked full of information and training ideas for you.

Z-Health Review - What Is Z-Health?

Bone rhythm demo from LKB Z-Health Workshop

I'm a Z-Health sceptic. I can't help it. Sorry. (UPDATE: I was a...)

I read about near magical transformations and effects it has with rehabbing injuries, improving performance and ignored it all for the last couple of years but the chatter and buzz has gotten too strong.

I succumbed, I broke down, I ordered the Z-Health Mega Package and...

this is the story of what I found.

Z-Health, the foundations of fitness?
We spend a lot of time training the muscular and cardiovascular systems but most of us neglect to train our nervous system.

TRX or Jungle Gym? The TRX vs Jungle Gym Smackdown

I've written about and reviewed two of the most popular suspension training systems in town - the TRX Fitness Anywhere system and LifeLine's Jungle Gym. Now I pit them head to head in a no holds barred contest to find out which one gets permanent pride of place on my pull up bar and which one gets stuck under the kitchen sink.

TRX Suspension Trainer Review

Even more suspension training, courtesy of Fitness Anywhere's TRX system. Designed by ex navy SEALS, which ticks a few boxes on the macho bloke side of things, the TRX claims that it will make your body your machine. Really? We'll find out in this post and the follow up where we pit the TRX against the LifeLine Jungle Gym in a supension training system smackdown!

What you get inside the bag

PowerClub Basics - Choosing the right size clubs for you

One Big Barbarian PowerClub

I've been using the PowerClubs for a while now and regularly get asked how best to choose the right size to train with.

Guys especially, refuse to believe that a "light" club will ever provide enough resistance to gain any appreciable results with, that is until they try the PowerClubs out!

The reasons why PowerClubs are so effective stem from the extreme leverage disadvantage a weighted club presents. Couple this with explosive lifting and swinging and you have a recipe for a monster workout with not much resistance.

So here is a quick guide on sizing your PowerClubs.

For men:

PowerClub Basics - Front Press

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This is a great exercise for strengthening the upper body and core for anyone who spends time punching people (premiership footballers for example)

You need to maintain a strong contraction of the core whilst pressing and a solid, stable stance.

Keep the shoulders down and engage the pecs and lats whilst pressing forwards for added oomph.

PowerClub Basics - Front Swing To Back Position

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This next exercise is a progression on from the basic front swing and will add rocket fuel to your throws and takedowns (if you're into martial arts) and is pretty tasty for anyone involved in racquet sports.

The key here is the deceleration; you have to tense the core, your grip and your upper body explosively to stop the PowerClub smashing into your back, and power is developed to swing it forwards again.

A fantastic drill to add in, it's an essential for combat athletes

PowerClub Basics - Front Swing

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Time to start working with PowerClubs!

Will have more detailed tutorials online soon but here's a taster of some of the exercises you can do with PowerClubs.

Aimed mainly at martial artists, I've worked with MMA players who swear by the clubs, so the bias will be towards combat sports for now. Having said that, if you're looking to get ripped then training like a UFC champion may be a good thing as they have some killer physiques :)

Anyhoo - here's the first exercise to do with PowerClubs; The PowerClub Front Swing

PowerClubs - have fun clubbing

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We've been supplying PowerClubs at London Kettlebells for ages but never really spent much time showing what to do with them. They've been used by people in the know for the past few years, so I guess it's time to start spreading the word about them!

Here's a quick video of what I've dubbed a circular clean. Absolutely phenomenal for shoulder strength and mobility so definitely worth adding to your training if you play any racquet sports or are involved in martial arts.

Going to be adding more in the coming days!

Jungle Gym Review

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Jungle Gym Review - having fun monkeying around.
Suspension training is all the rage. From wannabe gymnasts on Olympic rings, to the TRX system (J-Lo uses it so it MUST be good...actually, sarcasm aside, it is pretty cool but way expensive) to one of my favourites, the Jungle Gym - hanging around whilst training has never been this much fun.

Why suspension training is good
One of the greatest ways of increasing the intensity of weight training is to increase the level of instability, recruiting more stabilising muscles and the all important core.

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