Entry Level Fitness
I don’t address beginner level fitness nearly enough on this blog, I get caught up in all sorts of topics, most recently biomechanics and...
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Dave Hedges
Jun 5, 20134 min
Your Excuses are Invalid and How to Achieve Your Goals
“Glory is fleeting, mediocrity lasts forever” – The Rasta Jesus I asked on Facebook the other day “what exercise to see being butchered...
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Dave Hedges
Apr 22, 20132 min
The Unglamorous Truth to Smashing Your Goals
“So, where are all the best downhills?” asked the young mountain biker. “At the top of the best climbs!” replied the seasoned local. And...
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Dave Hedges
Aug 29, 20124 min
4 Tips To Ensure a Great Performance
Saturday is fast approaching and with it comes the 1 Mile Kettlebell Swing Challenge. Last Saturday I was very lucky to witness 5 of my...
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Dave Hedges
Jul 2, 20121 min
Glide Ratio – Why I Workout as Maniacally as I Do
Death If you can get yourself to fully believe in it, Death is a tremendous motivator. One day – and mostly likely not one of your...
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Dave Hedges
Mar 21, 20123 min
How to Rock a Home Workout
Making the most of a rare sunny day in Dublin I was asked a good question yesterday. It was one of those moments I always mean to have a...
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Dave Hedges
Mar 12, 20123 min
Beat the Crab Bucket
I love what I do for a living, so much so I hate calling it a job. The problem with this is, when I do have a bit of a bad day, if I am...
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Dave Hedges
Jul 31, 20112 min
Motivation Secrets and Level 1 Kettlebell Lifting
Two things in today’s post 1 – Motivation, what gets you going? 2 – Level One kettlebell workshop 1 – Motivation. Over the last week or...
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Dave Hedges
Mar 21, 20112 min
Week 3 – My Favorite week
Today is the Monday of my favorite week in every month. It is week three of the Boot Camp, and I love it. Week three is the most intense...
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Dave Hedges
Oct 18, 20103 min
Face your Demons
“6 months of training with you to the day, at least mostly your style of training and I feel and look the strongest and fittest I’ve...
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Dave Hedges
Jun 18, 20102 min
Putting The Boot In
I WISH the military looked like this I have been known, on many occasions to stand and take the piss out of these “military” bootcamp...
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Dave Hedges
Jan 29, 20102 min
Are you one of the few?
Well I don’t know what you all got up to over your lunch break, but for an elite few they were down here at Wild Geese HQ sweating...
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Dave Hedges
Jul 31, 20094 min
How to Motivate Yourself for Home Based Workouts
A big part of joining a gym or sports club is the camaraderie, the corps d’esprit, the friendly competition between you and your training...
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Dave Hedges
Jul 3, 20092 min
Total Self Defence
Go to a self defence course and you’ll usually get taught a hundred ways to damage a body. Go to a self protection and you learn probably...
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Dave Hedges
Jul 14, 20081 min
Do you run with the herd?
Ever watch the discovery channel? How about David Attenborough shows? Do you notice how the predators always pick out the weakest in the...
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Dave Hedges
Jun 20, 20082 min
Similar Differences
I was just reading a post on the Applied Strength Blog entitled “Contradictions and Situational Correctness”. In it Brett Jones discusses...
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Dave Hedges
May 18, 20082 min
Big Picture
I get all sorts of students coming to learn Martial Arts/Self Defence, many of whom have experience in other arts, even if it was from...
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Dave Hedges
May 11, 20082 min
Basics, basics, basics!
I lost count of the amount of times Jack Parker would shout this at me and the other kids at St Martins Jnr Karate Club. “Without the...
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Dave Hedges
Apr 11, 20082 min
The importance of hitting things
I was covering a Kenpo class there yesterday, I wasn’t too familiar with the student as he belongs to another instructor. The lad is...
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Dave Hedges
Mar 12, 20082 min
Mental Toughness
There is a quote in Enter the kettlebell by Federal counter-terrorist operator saying “Kettlebell Training…the closest thing you can get...
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