Wild Geese
Fitness Training

Driving the other day and on the radio came the classic Ian Drury track from 1977, "Reasons To Be Cheerful, part 3" If you don't remember it, please, be my g...

The single most common cue you will hear from any lifting coach is "chest up" I'm surprised that no enterprising DJ has created a gym training playlist with ...

Last week finished off with a regular client of mine who hasn’t been able to get in for some time. The reason he couldn’t get in is down to work commitments....

I’m a huge fan of breathing. I’m fairly sure I’m not alone in this, after all, more people do it than don’t…. Bad jokes aside, it’s kind of a big deal. Most ...

Many people say they don’t have time to exercise. I don’t believe them. What most people mean is they can’t be bothered training. If they just said that, I’d...

Lets take a show of hands. All those who’ve NEVER experienced knee pain or injury put your hand up. Those who’ve had PAIN in their knees put your hands up. Y...

I think it’s fair to say the Turkish Get Up is one of my favorite things to do. It’s also pretty fair to say there’s a lot of people who would agree with me ...

“Bodybuilding is about time under tension, Kettlebell Lifting is about time out of tension” – Valery Federenko Over the years I’ve been coaching, especially ...

Snatch Welcome to the first in a series of posts covering the Kettlebell Snatch. (Links to the rest: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6) The S...

Today’s post is about power. Specifically it’s about putting as much shocking, traumatic power as possible into the body of another human being. In other wor...

So thank you. Today I want to talk about it’s cousin, the Windmill. The windmill is a cool lift but one lives in the shadow if it’s bigger sibling, the Get U...

Over in the ever entertaining world of facebook I’ve been watching people debate, argue or simply ask about the correct height that you should swing your ket...

Just a short post today. I’ve been sitting up working on a secret project for the My Mad Methods guys and have left it a little late to be sat writing inspir...

Good morning. Today is Monday, that means in your regular gym, unless WGF is your regular gym, the place will be wall to wall bench press. So it’s a great op...

Before we get to that, One of my lads was working with push ups and asked me to put up a few variations for him, always happy to oblige I gave him 10 includi...

I’ll be judging the participants according to four criteria: Fitness Test, up to 15% of overall score Technical Competence, up to 25% of overall score Clas...

Finally people are realising the truth and moving back towards the well rounded training methods that have been around for generations, even before the mass ...