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Are You Recovering? – Head Coach Milo
You’re working out like never before to smash your next goal or to prep for you next CrossFit, Oly meet, powerlifting, triathlon or whatever event. Your program calls for you to do squats at 85% of your 1RM today but y…
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What are the best variations of squat? – Head Coach Milo
As ever team, it depends! 🙂 Why? Because it depends on what you are training for? If you still don’t have a set goal that you are chasing then seriously stop reading this and go take some time to figure it out. …
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Building Up To Your Best Ever Squat – Head Coach Milo
Training Frequency While low-frequency (1x per week) programming can work, it’s probably not the best approach for everyone. Because muscle growth takes at most several (up to 5) days to go through its full course, and…
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Drill and skills to help with that deadlift – Coach Misty
In Sunday’s blog I mentioned trying to find the areas in your deadlift where you need some dedication to make your deadlift boss like ☺ I.e. do you need stronger stabilising muscles in your feet? Do you battle to…
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Tips to make one of the coolest raw strength barbell movements EVEN better – Coach Misty
There are numerous philosophies around barbell movements on how to create a better movement pattern and what will give optimal results for strength and performance. A lot of this is followed up by principles and a lot is…
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Events – Movement 101 Come To Thames!
New Strength Cycle! Hey Team! Just a little reminder for you that our 8 Week Strength Cycle is kicking off on MONDAY! Whoop whoop! As ever we will be focusing on the main lifts. Squat, Deadlifts and presses! We are spend…
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CrossFitters & Oly Meets! – Ryan and Joe’s Oly Lifting Experience!
Two of our 6am’ers Joe and Ryan recently took part in their first Weightlifting meet over at LOWA. Weightlifting competitions test 1 rep maximums in the Snatch and Clean and Jerk and each lifter gets a maximum of 3 lif…
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Farewell Coach Dan…aka Mr Fitness
It makes us so sad to write this and to make it super official, but we are coming into the last two weeks with Coach Dan being here every day at Thames 🙁 Dan and Jorge are off on a great adventure first to Spain and t…
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What’s going down?!
Hey Team! Just a few reminders for you all in what you can get involved with at the moment with the gym! Competition Class This Saturday! On Saturday we are bringing back and improving on our Competition Class! We are do…
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Lemon Raspberry Bake – Nutrition Coach Sinead
Happy stomach kinda breakfast/snack Last Sunday I chatted on my difficulty with my Gut and shared a Feed.Fuel.Perform blog post by Dr Sinead Roberts on the importance of Gut health. The below is one of the recipes that S…
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