A Genuinely Functional Exercise for BJJ
Sports specific training was a hot topic a while ago, riding in on the back of the whole “functional training” nonsense. It’s still...
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Dave Hedges
- Apr 14, 2014
- 2 min
Fighting Back – How to Stop Back Pain & Improve Your BJJ Game
It’s finally here! It gives me great pleasure to finally announce the release of Fighting Back – How to Stop Back pain & Improve Your BJJ...
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Dave Hedges
- Apr 7, 2014
- 2 min
Warming Up for BJJ, Are You Doing It Wrong?
Warming up is a pain in the back side. Everyone hates it, many skip it, other just go through the motions and the rest probably do it...
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Dave Hedges
- Sep 18, 2013
- 4 min
Build a Power Back to Devastate your Opponents
Today’s post is about power. Specifically it’s about putting as much shocking, traumatic power as possible into the body of another human...
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Dave Hedges
- Aug 23, 2013
- 2 min
15 Way to Ensure your Training is Actually Functional
Did you catch Wednesdays guest post from Mick Coup? Mick may be a self defence coach, but he’s no stranger to the weight room. His...
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Dave Hedges
- Aug 15, 2013
- 4 min
Active Recovery, What is it, and how should I apply it?
Here’s a question I get from time to time, and it’s also something I feel to be extremely important, especially for the majority of the...
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Dave Hedges
- Aug 2, 2013
- 4 min
7 Exercises to Increase Punching Power
There are a few things I really love doing. They are (in no particular order): Playing with my Boys Playing with my Dog Playing with my...
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Dave Hedges
- Jul 31, 2013
- 3 min
Building a Workout part 1 – Movements
This is quite a big question. But one well worth answering. To be honest, there’s no one simple answer as there are as many workouts as...
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Dave Hedges
- Jun 19, 2013
- 4 min
To Deadlift or Not To Deadlift?
Last week over on the WG-Fit facebook page, one of my lads posted the following article: Dropping the Deadlift from Scramblestuff.com...
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Dave Hedges
- Jun 17, 2013
- 2 min
Building Real “Functional” Strength in a Hurry
What do you do when you’ve a limited window of opportunity in which to make strength and conditioning gains before an event? I know this...
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Dave Hedges
- Jun 12, 2013
- 2 min
My Wife’s PR on the Deadlift and what we can all Learn from it.
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...
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Dave Hedges
- Jun 10, 2013
- 3 min
The Squat – Progressions and/or Regressions
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...
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Dave Hedges
- May 6, 2013
- 3 min
Don’t lift weights, it’ll slow you down
If I hear one more martial arts or self defence instructor tell their students, or even if I it repeated by hear their students, that...
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Dave Hedges
- May 3, 2013
- 3 min
Knees, Upper Backs, Strength and Wolverine…….
Today I’ve a few things on my mind. As per normal, my little grey cells are banging on overtime and I’m struggling to tame them into a...
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Dave Hedges
- Apr 29, 2013
- 2 min
6 Ways To Improve Overall Athelticism
Finally people are realising the truth and moving back towards the well rounded training methods that have been around for generations,...
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Dave Hedges
- Apr 5, 2013
- 3 min
1 Piece of Kit, Unlimited Awesome Potential.
I was supposed to write you an awesome blog post for today, I had planned to get it done this morning before the day kicked off with...
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Dave Hedges
- Mar 22, 2013
- 3 min
Elbow Pain In Boxers, a quick fix
Yesterday one of our Muay Thai lads was chatting to me before his warm up. He’s a very fit, well rounded young athlete, who’s always open...
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Dave Hedges
- Mar 14, 2013
- 2 min
Top 5 Core Strength Exercises
Last week we did a fair bit talking about the core, its function and some training methods for it. Today I want to expand on by talking...
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Dave Hedges
- Mar 6, 2013
- 3 min
4 Core Stability Drills, and a Few Variations.
Last week we answered the question “Why is core strength so important?” Which seemed to go down well, judging by the amount of shares...
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Dave Hedges
- Jan 31, 2013
- 4 min
Ask Dave: Building Strength Without Bulk for Boxing
Dave, I know you’re a busy man with a fun filled schedule – but I was wondering when you if you could find a moment could you assist with...
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