Workouts

Cardio Interval To Power – Individual Circuit

 

Warm up 5 mins using CV 

With this workout use your CV intervals (as below, 1,2, 3,)  using 3 different exercises for each 20 seconds and then 20 seconds rest. Repeat it 6 times before moving onto first power block. Repeat the same CV interval block between each power block. 

One minutes rest between each block to […]

By |March 14th, 2018|Article, Workouts|

Workout – Giant Set Circuit

Complete 1 resistance set, 15 seconds to change,  1 CV set 1 minute rest then move to next block down. Repeat until all blocks done. Takes around 1 hour.

 

Resistance Exercise with VIPR or Barbell or Medball or Plates etc

All 30 reps
Step

 

CV Exercise all 30 Seconds

Giant Set 1

Shoulder Press x 30

Lateral Raise x 30

Shoulder Press x […]

By |February 25th, 2018|Article, Workouts|

Conor’s Cardio Blast

Blow out the cobwebs and the seasonal excesses with this fun cardio workout from Conor. Its pretty good fun and takes 45 minutes to complete. 

Choose 3 cardio machines of your choice (E.g. Treadmill; Rower; X-trainer or Bike etc). After each timed block, increase your intensity by 10-20% for the following block so as your time […]

By |January 4th, 2018|Article, Workouts|

Christmas Blast Workouts

Workout programme card by Glenn Cranham B.Sc
Christmas Blast
If you’re short of time over xmas with relatives and parties, you still need to control those additional calories. So why not make the most of your time in the gym with compound exercises in a peripheral heart action (blood shunt) circuit. You can intersperse this with cardio […]

By |December 16th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

12 Days of Christmas Accumulator Workout

Workout by the Drummond Team. Merry Christmas.
This is a workout you can do in class with your group, or individually with your clients and then set them to do at home to keep them fit over the break days of Christmas. You could also set it as day 1 is Christmas day until the 5th […]

By |December 15th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

Hypertrophy Gym Workout for you to try?

Workout, by Conor Maclean B.Sc (Hon’s)

Choose one exercise from each section below for your workout and complete the sets and reps. You will leave the gym with a good all over body workout. You can then vary it throughout the week.

Exercise
Sets
Reps

Quad
3 or 4
15

Hamstring
3 or 4
15

Push
3 or 4
15

Pull
3 or 4
15

Tricep
3 or 4
15

Bicep
3 or 4
15

Core
3 or 4
15

5min […]

By |November 29th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

Bulgarian Bag – Different But Effective

Article by Sam Tomkins B.Sc CSCS

The Bulgarian bag was said to have been developed in 2005 by Ivan Ivanov. At the time he was working as a U.S. Olympic wrestling coach and wanted to improve explosive actions and dynamic movements involved in pushing, twisting, swinging, pulling, bending, rotating, squatting, lunging and throwing.

An official Bulgarian Bag […]

By |November 10th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

Week 1 workout for strength, posture and core

This workout was designed for a 50 year old female who wanted to complete the 3 peaks challenge.  

Increase weight or reps on the programme to suit your client fitness level.
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By |October 5th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

Cardio Power Circuit Workout

This is a great simple workout to use either in the garden or outdoors anywhere in the nice weather or use it in the gym, studio or class. 

You can add varied equipment to each exercise to make it more challenging. Try it with weighted med balls, VIPR or a kettlebell. 

Give this to your clients or […]

By |August 6th, 2017|Article, Workouts|

Strength Training For Cycling

There is much confusion on whether cyclists and triathletes should use strength and conditioning (S&C) as part of their cycling training. The traditional thinking has been that spending time on a bike will make a more accomplished rider and will improve an individuals ability. Whilst I can’t disagree with this thinking, there are caveats to […]

By |August 4th, 2017|Article, Workouts|