From The Fitting Rooms gym in London Bridge, Dave explains why using resistance bands to do pull-ups negatively affects your pull-up strength and demonstrates how to actually improve your strength for this key movement... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAhdXxh8TKI
Spending hours every week doing cardio and can't understand why you're not looking any leaner? It's time to get off that hamster wheel and pick up some weights! First-up: some home-truths about constant cardio and metabolic training: - It makes you look older! - It damages your hormonal balance! - It wrecks your sex drive!
We've all got an opinion on this seemingly devilish food group, but what are the real facts about eating carbohydrates? Carbs are one of your three main macros and are essential for day to day life, unfortunately however their consumption over recent years has been so badly abused that it has earned them a terrible
Seated Good Mornings For Stronger Hamstrings & Lower Back Seated Good Morning Exercise If you're looking for a powerful exercise to strengthen your lower back, hamstrings and glutes, then the Seated Good Morning exercise is one to add to your training arseal. Seated good mornings isolate the hip extension movement and work your posterior
Tightness in the shoulders is such a common complaint that most people now just accept it as normal and put up with the pain it can cause. At The Fitting Rooms we have many approaches for addressing the cause of shoulder pain to help remedy and eliminate it, which our clients can attest to. The
Want Stronger Hamstrings, Glutes & Lower Back? Meet The Glute-Ham Raise! If you're lucky enough to have access to a glute-ham raise at your gym, then this is one machine you should definitely familiarise yourself with. When performed correctly (which unfortunately it rarely is) the glute-ham raise is a powerful posterior-chain exercise that works
The Importance of Training Your Posterior-Chain (and how to train it effectively) Do you suffer from lower back pain? Are you starting to feel like your big lifts in the gym are stagnating? Or perhaps you don’t feel as powerful on the pitch as you should? If so, the chances are that you’re not
Your best high street choices for lunch when out and about… At The Fitting Rooms we always encourage taking home-prepared lunches into work, but sometimes life just gets in the way so it’s good to know the best options available to buy on the high street. One of the biggest problems with ready prepared meals
The perfect summer salad... Caesar salads get a bad rap for being unhealthy but there's nothing bad about my healthy home-made version: - Romaine lettuce; - Anchovies (Omega 3, vitamins A & B, calcium, magnesium, iron); - Grilled asparagus (fibre, folate, vitamins A, C, E, K, & chromium, a trace mineral that enhances the ability
What You Didn't Know About Hamstring Training... Hamstring training is often under-prioritised in people's programming with more of a focus placed on the quads and glutes; which is crazy considering how important hamstrings are for both athletic performance, aesthetics and everyday, pain-free movement! What are the hamstring muscles? The hamstrings are the group of
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