A Romanian deadlift can also be known as a straight leg deadlift. It emphasises a lot of tension on the hamstrings and requires you again to be know how to hip hinge properly. When performing a Romanian deadlift there should be no tension within your lower back, if this occurs then there is either:
Deadlifting 101
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In our opinion deadlifts are one of the most superior exercises that you should be including into your weekly exercise schedule. It is one of few exercises that causes you to train multiple muscle groups at one time, especially your posterior chain (the whole back
A Week In The Life Of Impact Personal Trainer, Reece.
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As well as giving you an insight to how my week goes and how I fit everything in (Training, food prep, 2 jobs). It may also give you an idea of how you can manage your time more efficiently and in the long run make your life a tad easier.
Dealing With Overwhelm
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I woke up this morning feeling completely overwhelmed, no idea why but I did. For a few hours I tried to brush it off, but I couldn’t.
3 Simple Things You’re Not Doing For Weight Loss (But Should)
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I get it, you’re probably pretty frustrated right now. You want to lose weight but you’re stuck, you have no idea on what you need to be doing. You’ve googled ‘weight loss’ and 772,000,000 results appear (at the time of writing this post, there are probably more now). Searching weight loss hasn’t made it any easier for you, in fact you’re now super confused. Do you go low carb or low fat? Weight training or running? Intermittent fasting or carbohydrate cycling?
Gym étiquette 101
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It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog for the site (I write daily informative emails that you can subscribe to below) and after an interesting conversation with a client the other evening regarding gym etiquette, I thought yeah….people will want to know about this.