Workouts

Peripheral Heart Action Toning Circuit

A great workout from our resident Personal Training/Rehabilitation senior tutor Glenn Cranham B.Sc (Hon’s)

Notes: All exercises are with dumbbells and loads (suggested for an intermediate 75kg male) are for each dumbbell. Each group is a circuit to be completed twice with a minutes rest between circuits. Add your own warm up and activations based on […]

By |December 20th, 2022|Article, Workouts|

The Original ‘300’ Test – Try this for an amazing workout!

Article by Glenn Cranham B.Sc
For those of you that are a little longer in the tooth, you may well have heard of the 300 workout, that was used to train up the amazing physiques of the actors in the film 300.

The 300 workout was designed by Mark Twight, a record holding mountain climber and lead […]

By |October 28th, 2022|Article, Workouts|

Cutting Workout for Experienced Clients

article by Glenn Cranham B.Sc (Hon’s)

This is a workout that’s designed to burn high calories and fat through the utilisation of a peripheral heart action method whilst still achieving hypertrophic gains for the upper body.

You’re going to need a squat rack and it requires two people because of the transitions required between exercises and the […]

By |May 30th, 2022|Article, Workouts|

Kettlebell Workout

A great workout to give your clients for a home workout or for you to use in class, gym, outdoors or online. Want to pick up some technique tips, watch Glenn’s technique tips video for the exercises. 

Warm up and dynamic stretch 6-8 mins

Complete each circuit in turn using a range of 10-20 reps depending on […]

By |June 18th, 2021|Article, Workouts|

Kettlebell Workout

A great workout with Glenn that you can take anywhere. You can try this in the gym, outdoors, in the studio or just at home on your mat. Share this with your clients and set it as homework over the holidays for them. If you want to see the technique for the more technical exercises, […]

By |December 15th, 2020|Article, News, Workouts|

Cardio Resistance Workout

Workout by Glenn Cranham

This is a touch workout for the Hypertrophy/performance stage Mesocycle of training. 

Flexibility & Muscle Activations

Action
Sets
Reps
Load
Time
Rest

Calf wall stretch
 
1
 
20s
 

Kneeling Hip flexor
 
1
 
20s
 

Sitting glute
 
1
 
20s
 

Single leg squat to touch
2
6
 
 

Ice skaters
1
12
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Cardio vascular

Movement
Settings
Type
Intensity
Time

Rowing
 
intervals
>1.40/500m
6 min (40/20)

Cross trainer
12
intervals
>100spm work int
25s w/15s r

Running
 
Steady
70%
15 min

 
 
 
 
 

 

Resistance

Exercise
Sets
Reps
Tempo
Load
Rest

Cardio 1
Rowing as above

Cleans
3
10
Fast
75% 1RM (use the same bar for the 4 exercises)
Circuit

Bench press
3
10
3-0-1
Circuit

Front squats
3
10
2-1-2
Circuit

Bent over row
3
10
3-0-1
1 min & […]

By |February 24th, 2020|Article, Workouts|

Blast accumulator workout to kick start your year

A wee workout to share with your clients to kick start their workouts this year. You can use it for homework or in a session or class with them. You can change the exercises to suit you or your equipment just use the accumulator concept.  Based on the hangover of the 12 days of Christmas/ton […]

By |January 5th, 2020|Article, Workouts|

Boxing for Improved Mental Health

Article by Matt Hirst 

We are now in November or Movember a time when people around the world grow a moustache for raising awareness of prostate cancer and depression in men.

I want to look at depression which effects all men, women, boys and girls. What is depression?

The mental health charity mentalhealth.co.uk state;

Depression is a common mental […]

By |November 15th, 2019|Article, Workouts|

Getting Motivated for Hot Summer Workouts

Get Creative With Your Workout Logic

It can take a significant amount of mental gymnastics to prepare yourself for an outdoor workout during the dog days of summer. However, motivational speaker Gregory Berge, the founder of The Best Athlete You Can Be, starts with one tip when working with professional athletes: Reframe your mindset.

In this case, […]

By |June 26th, 2019|Article, Workouts|

Conor’s “Wee” Park & Picnic Bench Workout!

By Conor McLean, Drummond Tutor & Senior Lecturer, & Lifestyle & Obesity Specialist for Edinburgh Leisure 

You only need a local picnic or park bench (& body weight) – for these great resistance training exercises!  A brilliant excuse to get outdoors…

Select 6-8 of these exercises to create a wee session in the park – maybe even […]

By |May 24th, 2019|Article, Workouts|