CategoriesHealth & Fitness Results Strength Training Tips Working Out

When Should You Focus More On Cardio Training To Get Fit?

This is a really interesting question and one that I am regularly asked by people looking to get in good shape. Unfortunately, like nearly every question about health and fitness the answer I usually give is, it depends. We are all individually unique with our needs and where we are at with our health and fitness journey so the timing of when to really up the intensity with your cardio training efforts will vary significantly from person to person. You have to appreciate that this type of training is very stressful to the body and problems can easily arise if you are not moving correctly to begin with, or if you have significant weaknesses present. I have found that cardio training tends to be highly over-rated in terms of the rewards it provides to the body and as a result it is regularly over-used and even abused often leading to chronic injuries that could have been avoided if a better plan was put in place. In this article, I will explain how I know when the time is right to shift my training focus to higher intensity type of cardiovascular training.

CategoriesRunning Workouts Sports Strength

6 Running Workouts To Improve Speed & Acceleration For Sports

We all know that to excel at sports like Football, Basketball and Soccer you will need an incredible amount of fitness. Skills are great to have, but if you gas out quickly due to poor fitness levels you are of no use to your team. This means you need to spend time improving your running fitness, and unfortunately for many sporting athletes and coaches this is where they make the mistake of over-using endurance focused workouts. Sports like football, soccer, and basketball incorporates multiple high-intensity efforts interspersed with periods of lower-intensity exercise. The physiological demands of these sports require players to be competent in several aspects of fitness, which include aerobic and anaerobic power, muscle strength, and agility. Running in a straight line for 10-15 minutes will improve fitness, but not the specific fitness of what these sports demand. In this article, I will discuss how you can design a running workout that meets all of these demands.

CategoriesExercises For AFL Football Master Functional Movement Patterns

2 Things You Must Know If You Want To Improve Your Running Fitness For AFL Football

Injuries are inevitable, especially in such a demanding game like AFL football where it requires a unique combination of endurance, strength, speed and agility, as well a frequent high impact collisions. We asked our trainer Dylan Vizzarri who plays Division 1 Football for Blackburn to write an article about his personal journey of rehabilitating his own body from many severe injuries over the past 4 years. Many of these injuries could have been avoided if he knew what he knows now, saving him from a lot of pain and frustration. Some of these injuries have seen him miss an entire football season! This is a must read for any amateur football players with to avoid the mistakes we see so many players make with their fitness training methods.