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19/10/2021

Be purposeful - what do you want to improve on?

Generally, within functional fitness / cross training / CrossFit, you will have movements you are good at, movements you enjoy and movements with you may wish to improve on. This improvement could present itself in a number of ways. Move more efficiently Perform reps quicker in a period of time Perf...

17/10/2021

New Blog: How purposeful training can have a place within constant variety.

"If there wasnt a place for purposeful training or practise, we would not need the term work on your weaknesses"

When we use the term purposeful training or purposeful practise, we do so with the approach that to make it purposeful, it should be specific to YOU. Taking into account; Your previous experience, Your physical condition Your skill level Your understanding and what you are working toward. What it is...

14/10/2021

"A tennis player will practise the same shot hundreds of times"

How constantly varying your workouts may be taking away the time you need to learn and develop.

The beginnings of this blog were to ask questions of and take a different approach to the idea that functional / cross training must always be varied and always be high intensity. Going back to the beginning, an ever present question has been "how do YOU measure and record the intensity you are work...

05/10/2021

Blog - 'turn a generic workout for a group into a specific workout within a group'

For the majority, the current 'Workout of the Day' will be written on the board looking something like this: 12 minute AMRAP 15 Thrusters 12 KB Swings 9 Pull Ups With coaching points looking something like this: 'Choose a thruster weight which you can perform the reps unbroken' ' Depending on your p...

03/10/2021

"Your Workout of the day" 5 Rounds for time 30 Calorie Row 20 Wall Balls 10 Down Ups Your target time: 10 mins 2 mins per round, including moving between movements Break down: 48 secs for rowing - 80% of trial time 37 secs for wall balls - 25% of max reps 20 secs for down ups - 80% of trial pace 15....

02/10/2021

New blog - Trial....build a resource.....begin to experiment

I initially wrote the word Test, rather than Trial, but felt there are too many negative connotations which are associated with that word. It feels a bit too regimented and constrictive. Trial however, suggests attempting something which has got room to change. To encourage risk and failure. To be c...

01/10/2021

Blog post - High Intensity v High Work Capacity.2

An example

A basic example To follow on from the previous post, lets look at an example which can begin to differentiate between high intensity and high work capacity. You walk into the gym .... you have 20 mins to train (after saying your hello's, warming up, throwing some banter around). How can similar 20 m...

30/09/2021

New blog post - High Intensity or High Work Capacity

Is the workout you are doing high intensity or does it require a high work capacity? Whilst a 2 minute post wont do justice to such a broad question, it can begin to delve into it. Generally, high intensity are bouts of exercise which will have you working at 95% plus of your max HR / VO2 max , depe...

29/09/2021

New blog post - Asking Why

Asking Why can be uncomfortable. It can create tension, both internally and externally, between you and the subject. It can falsely accuse you of not paying attention, patronise and draw unnecessary attention. So for the most part, it is easier not to ask why. But..... This powerful 3 letter word ca...

29/09/2021

A reminder of the aims and objectives of Making the Metcon Making the Metcon is a concept which has been a long time in the making. From my experience of running a CrossFit box, designing programmes and being a part of the fitness industry, a lingering question has always been there …… why is th...

28/01/2021

Making the Metcon: Article 6️⃣

Create a WOD specific to YOU!!

New article up on

www.trainattain.com

providing our first practical example of how we want to change

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to

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Making workouts specific to your fitness levels, utilising an objective approach and providing measurable targets 🎯

It’s a 2 minute read, let us know your thoughts!

https://www.trainattain.com/post/making-the-metcon-article-6-create-a-wod-specific-to-you

26/01/2021

📹 A quick video before Article 6️⃣.

If you were to play tennis, do you think it is better to learn how to play 10 shots as well as you can? Or try to simulate the hundreds of thousands of scenarios they could be played in?

Now think about the constantly varied approach to workouts....