Equilibrium Petersfield

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18/06/2026

If your shoulder press feels more like a battle with your lower back than a shoulder exercise, this is one mistake worth fixing.

A lot of people press the weight overhead by leaning back and turning the movement into more of an incline press.

Not only does this reduce the work your shoulders are doing, but it can also leave your lower back doing more than its fair share.

A few simple adjustments can make a huge difference:

✓ Keep your ribs stacked over your hips
✓ Brace your midsection before each rep
✓ Keep your forearms vertical underneath the dumbbells
✓ Press overhead without letting your lower back arch excessively

The goal isn’t simply to get the weight overhead.

The goal is to challenge the muscles you’re actually trying to train.

Small technical improvements often lead to better results, healthier joints and more confidence with the exercise.

Save this for your next upper body session and come back to it whenever your shoulder press starts feeling a little off. 🖤

11/06/2026

Want stronger pull ups?

Here’s what’s probably going wrong. 👇

The two most common faults we see on this movement go hand in hand — shoulders creeping up towards the ears and a loose core that creates that telltale banana position.

When both happen together the lats switch off, stability disappears and the whole movement loses power.

Here’s the fix:
✅ Pull your shoulders down towards your hips — not up towards your ears
✅ Squeeze your core and glutes throughout
✅ Drive your elbows down towards your hips as you pull

That combination does two things at once. Bringing the shoulders down engages the lats properly — the muscle that should be doing most of the work.

And a tight core gives you the stability to generate real force through the movement rather than just hanging and hoping.

Same exercise.

Completely different result.

Try these cues on your next set and see what changes. 🖤

09/06/2026

High protein diets — genuine game changer or just another fitness fad?

Here’s the honest answer. 👇

The concept itself is completely legitimate and one of the most well-researched areas in nutrition.

Getting enough protein — somewhere around 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilo of body weight — genuinely matters. It preserves muscle mass as you age, keeps you fuller for longer and makes managing your weight significantly easier without having to obsess over every calorie.

The problem isn’t the science.

The problem is what the food industry did with it.

Protein Snickers bars. Protein ice cream. High protein cereal.

A genuinely useful nutritional principle taken, packaged up and sold back to people in a way that has left half the population confused about whether any of it is actually real.

It is real. The marketing around it mostly isn’t.

Get your protein from whole food sources — meat, fish, eggs, dairy, legumes. Build your plate around it at every meal. The bars and shakes might have their place as a convenience top-up, but they are never the foundation.

The foundation is always the food.

This is a clip from Episode 2 of In The Balance — the full episode is available on YouTube and covers fifteen of the hottest nutrition topics right now.

So — where do you stand on high protein diets? Real deal or overhyped?

Drop your thoughts below. 👇🖤

08/06/2026

If your Bulgarian Split Squat feels awkward, unstable or all in your back leg... your setup is probably the problem.

Most issues happen before the first rep even starts.

A few simple adjustments can make this exercise feel stronger, more balanced and far more effective.

✓ Set your front foot further forward than you think
✓ Place the top of your back foot onto the bench rather than pressing through it
✓ Keep most of your weight in the front leg
✓ Drop straight down instead of drifting forwards

The Bulgarian Split Squat is one of the best lower body exercises for building strength, stability and resilience — but only when the setup allows you to load the right muscles.

Get the start position right and the movement becomes much simpler.

Save this for your next lower body session and come back to it whenever your split squats stop feeling quite right. 🖤

03/06/2026

Ann is 75. She spent six years having chemotherapy.

When she first came to Equilibrium she wasn’t sure she’d ever be able to lift a weight.

She just thought it wasn’t for someone like her.
It was.

Before she joined, making her bed would leave her exhausted. Flat sheet — rest. Pillows — rest. Duvet — done. The simplest daily tasks had become a measure of how much her body had been through.

Today Ann lifts six kilos. She tells her family after every session. And she is — in her own words — quite proud of that.

“Having chemotherapy for six years, my body wasn’t in a good shape. Now I feel as if I’m on the up again.”

More energy. More confidence.

A body that is rebuilding itself session by session. And a place where she never once felt like a burden for needing things explained again.

This is what Equilibrium is for.

Not just the people who are already fit. Not just the people who feel ready. But the people who aren’t sure they can — and need somewhere safe to find out that they can.

Ann found that.

And we couldn’t be more proud of her. 🖤

     

02/06/2026

Feeling incline press ups in your shoulders instead of your chest?

Here’s the fix. 👇

It usually comes down to one simple positioning fault — standing too far away from the bar.

When that happens the bar hits too high on the chest, the shoulders take over and the chest barely gets involved.

Here’s what to do instead:

✅ Take a small step closer to the bar
✅ Pull yourself down with control
✅ Make sure the bar hits the midline of your chest before pressing away

That small adjustment shifts the load directly into the chest, reduces unnecessary stress on the shoulders and joints and makes every rep actually do the job it’s supposed to.

Save this for your next session. 🖤

     

28/05/2026

Intermittent fasting — overrated or underrated?

It’s one of the most talked about nutrition topics of the last decade. And if you’ve ever tried it, you’ll know it feels like it should work.

But here’s what Ryan and Charlie actually think.

It’s not that intermittent fasting doesn’t work for anyone. It’s that people give it far more power than it deserves. It’s not the secret source to anything — and the results most people experience from it come down to one simple thing.

A calorie deficit.

The problem is the method itself often works against you. Push through a 16 or 20 hour fast and by the time you do eat, you’re ravenous. And when you’re ravenous, you overeat. The very benefit you were chasing quietly disappears.
There are simpler, more sustainable ways to get to the same place — without spending half the day running on empty.

This is just one moment from Episode 2 of In The Balance — the Equilibrium podcast.

The full episode is this now live on YouTube and covers fifteen of the hottest nutrition topics right now, including protein, creatine, GLP-1 medications, ultra-processed food and plenty more.

Trust us — you won’t want to miss this one. 🖤

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27/05/2026

Not feeling your RDLs in your hamstrings? Here’s why. 👇

The most common fault on this movement is bending through the spine instead of hinging through the hips. It creates a fold rather than a true hip hinge — and when that happens, the hamstrings switch off and the lower back takes the load.
Here’s the fix:

✅ Push your hips back as far as possible — think about pushing a cardboard box back with your glutes

✅ Keep the spine long throughout the movement

✅ On the way back up, squeeze the glutes and drive the hips forward

That one cue — hips back, not spine forward — creates a bigger stretch through the hamstrings and keeps the lower back exactly where it should be. Out of the equation.

Save this for your next session. 🖤

     

20/05/2026

Last Friday we did something we look forward to every year. 🖤

Our annual Supper Club with the incredible team at Village Street Kitchen — and it was everything we hoped it would be.

Beautiful food. Familiar faces. New conversations. And that feeling that only comes when the right people are in the same room together.

Joey and Annabel outdid themselves. The menu was stunning — locally sourced, seasonal and exactly the kind of food that makes you feel as good as it tastes.

But as wonderful as the food was, it was the evening itself that stayed with us.
Because this is what Equilibrium has always been about — not just what happens in the barn between the hours of six and seven in the morning.

It’s about building something bigger than a training programme. A community of like-minded people who show up for each other, who share this journey, and who make the whole thing infinitely more enjoyable.

Strength. Food. Laughter. Good company.

That’s the balance we’re always looking for. 🖤

     

19/05/2026

John is 54. He did a 100kg deadlift.

He never thought that was possible.

For most of his 20s and 30s he didn’t exercise at all. In his 40s he took up running — until his knees put a stop to that too. He needed something else but the idea of walking into a gym didn’t feel natural.

“The first thought of going to a gym just wasn’t something that was natural for me to do.”

Then he found Equilibrium.

From day one something felt different. Not easy — the training was hard. But the environment wasn’t threatening. Wasn’t weird. It was warm, friendly and filled with people who all seemed to carry the same approach regardless of whether they were just starting out or lifting 150kg.

“There’s an awful lot of camaraderie between people.”

Today John is fitter, stronger and healthier than he has been in decades. More energy. Better sleep. And a 100kg deadlift that once felt completely out of reach.

Not because he found a gym.

Because he found the right one. 🖤

     

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