We can learn a lot from the elite athletes at the Commonwealth Games & their recent heroics. Guts, determination & hard work are key ingredients to a successful competition/race/achievement. I often talk about consistency being a key part of training and when you are consistently working hard the results will come. The amazing runs of Jess … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2014
Week 5 of the 6-Week Core Strenth Program
July 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to week 5 of the Core Strength Program. The exercises are certainly more difficult this week as we build on the previous 4 programs. If you struggled with Week 4’s exercises spend an extra week or 2 improving your strength (with W4’s program) before stepping up to the week 5 exercises. So many are direct progressions from last week’s … [Read more...]
Week 4 of the 6-week Core Strength Program
July 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Congratulations on making it half way through the 6-week Core Strength Program… and welcome back for week 4. This week we increase the intensity again as we add in more dynamic plank variations and double leg lowers & toe touches as we build towards one of my favourite Ab exercises ‘Hands-to-Feet’ which will feature in Week 5. If you … [Read more...]
Week 3 of the 6-week Core Strength Program
July 13, 2014 By 1 Comment
Two weeks in and no doubt you’re already feeling your core control improve and plank endurance developing. This week we progress the exercises & duration of our plank. The first 2 weeks have built a good base to introduce advanced options & new moves to the program. Again repeat the program at least 3 days this week. To start the program … [Read more...]
Week 2 of the 6-week Core Strength Program
July 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Congratulations on completing the first week of the program and welcome back for week 2. This week we progress the introductory exercises to harder version and use your maximum plank time to increase your core endurance using the plank. Before starting the new exercises for week 2 let’s do a quick revision of the week 1 principles of activating … [Read more...]
