Peach Strength and Movement

Peach Strength and Movement Olympic style Weightlifting coaching for all ages and levels from Gabi Peach, International level coach

02/09/2026

Cues in comp, for the athlete or for the coach? šŸ¤”

Not new information, just a quick reminder of where focus goes.

31/08/2026

Legs do the work šŸ¦µ

This is a wordy post and maybe Iā€™ve tried to cover too many things, but oh well hope itā€™s a teeny bit useful.If someone ...
31/08/2026

This is a wordy post and maybe Iā€™ve tried to cover too many things, but oh well hope itā€™s a teeny bit useful.

If someone is coming in with established habits accessing targeted coaching for the first time, this process is pretty straightforward for getting started towards meaningful technical progress.

Where itā€™s more interesting is with experienced and skilled athletes where the issues are less glaring, but more ingrained, and have to be managed alongside small inconveniences like competition. At that level we get more into repeating cycles of ā€˜letā€™s spend some time on thisā€™ as and when is feasible between meeting the physical preparation needs of competing and ongoing physical development.

For those athletes the coaching skill is decision making around what can be done to support improvement in the short term, balanced against moving towards longer term targets, taking all of technique, physical condition and mental preparedness into consideration.

29/08/2026

It felt like a 6.

When I used an offer like this (in a different field) and got a lot from it, it immediately became important to me to tr...
28/08/2026

When I used an offer like this (in a different field) and got a lot from it, it immediately became important to me to try the same thing in mine one day. So here it is.

I have absolutely no idea how this is going to go- if there will be any interest, if it ends up being more work than I anticipate, if it will be a useful thing to anyone who takes up the offer.

If itā€™s a swing and a miss thatā€™s fine, the question has been answered. If it sounds like a solution youā€™d like to try, please send me a message. And if this post has made you realise actually nah you want the full coaching gig, you can message me about that too.

Iā€™ll edit if and when the offerā€™s no longer available.

I donā€™t love talking about how Iā€™ve got better because it admits I wasnā€™t as good as I am now in the past. Which is clea...
27/08/2026

I donā€™t love talking about how Iā€™ve got better because it admits I wasnā€™t as good as I am now in the past.

Which is clearly ridiculous and an unavoidable reality of improvement.

Anyway had a photoshoot with myself when I stayed in a sick hotel room a while back and stoked to now find a use for this photo.

Get coached by me itā€™ll be normal I swear

Should you change your set up position?Should you add pauses in your jerk warm ups?Should you start squatting every day?...
26/08/2026

Should you change your set up position?

Should you add pauses in your jerk warm ups?

Should you start squatting every day?

Should you cut a lifting session from your programme and go swimming instead?

Decision making around what weā€™re doing is led by knowing WHY weā€™re doing it and what we expect to change as a result.

Effective coaching includes being able to explain the reason behind those decisions.

25/08/2026

The best way to coach movement is to not actually go into the details: to give you just the right amount of information, direction or context (like get the bar to this height or donā€™t go over this line) that you self-organise into a great pattern without having to really think about exactly what youā€™re doing.

And I try to do that as much as I can, particularly when learning from scratch.

And also, when an experienced athlete already knows the movement and has an ingrained habit that really isnā€™t working for them anymore, that approach doesnā€™t always work. What I like about looking at things in isolation is that it gives you a reference point of what the change feels like to work back into the full lift.

If thereā€™s something technically youā€™ve been trying to change and canā€™t quite get a handle on it, let me know and I can suggest how you could approach it from this angle.

I think about this a lot, particularly when I give the same technical exercises to different athletes for different reas...
23/08/2026

I think about this a lot, particularly when I give the same technical exercises to different athletes for different reasons, or different cues to different athletes with the same intended (hopefully lol) outcome.

I actually canā€™t stand words like perfect and best so letā€™s say optimal. Optimal is going to vary both between individuals, and over time for the same person. Everything exists in context. This is what makes coaching fun and exciting and challenging, and equally frustrating, confusing and annoying.

Itā€™s why I can post something and one person might say ā€œomg you nailed it, best coach everā€ while another thinks ā€œwtf ur dumbā€. And to an extent theyā€™re both right.

Why is this important? Mainly I just want to point out that quality coaching is going to take your personal current context into account, which will greatly increase the chances of your receiving an optimal solution, and thatā€™s why itā€™s worth investing in.

But also please keep liking my tech tips posts it makes me feel good.

22/08/2026

Was pretty happy with my 90kg back squat earlier this week until I calculated and realised it was 66% of my lifetime bestā€¦

Iā€™m getting older, my priorities have shifted, pregnancy and post-partum have been a bitch to navigate.

Accepting my reality, working with it and being able to celebrate what I am doing without getting too bummed over what I have done in the past is something Iā€™m still working on. And shock horror (not at all shocking), themes like this come up in coaching a lot as well.

The question comes back to- do I want to be mad about how strong Iā€™m not, or put that energy into finding out what I can still do from here?

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