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Blog Post 7: Negatives; a positive thing?

Negatives; a positive thing? | Riverside Personal Training, Putney & Richmond, London Stuck on a particular weight on a lift or just can’t do a full pull up without support, then negative (or eccentric) lifting may well be just the thing you need. Put simply a negative lift is when you ignore the lifting phase of a lift and just train the lowering element of it, which allows you to…

Exercise of the week - some would say the only exercise you ever need - the squat!
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Blog Post 6: Should you stretch before exercise?

Pre-exercise stretching, a good thing? | Riverside Personal Training, Putney & Richmond, London Like me you have no doubt had it drilled into you that you should always stretch before exercise and quite possibly you still do the same stretching routine that you were first taught. However the majority of research now agrees that static or ballistic stretching is actually worse than nothing at…

After a some online study and a day mostly spent in the saddle I am now Indoor Cycling qualified. Will be spending the next couple of weeks studying cycling training methodologies.

New exercise of the week up on the website - Saxon Side Bends. With thanks to Harry Bond.

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Blog Post 5: What is OBLA

What is OBLA? | Riverside Personal Training, Putney & Richmond, London OBLA is short for the “Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation” and is the result of training at sufficient intensity that the body can no longer disperse or remove the acid accumulating in your bloodstream. More commonly this is called reaching your anaerobic threshold. The anaerobic threshold repres...

Exercise of the week - the Abdominal Crunch.

Blog Post 4: Fartlek Training

What is Fartlek Training? | Riverside Personal Training, Putney & Richmond, London The word Fartlek is Swedish and best translates to mean “speed play”. This style of training evolved from outdoor running, where athletes would naturally vary their pace according to the terrain and how they felt. Many styles of Fartlek exist and it can be applied to almost all forms of CV trainin...

What is EPOC? | Riverside Personal Training, Putney & Richmond, London EPOC is short for Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption, which refers to the time after exercise has finished when the metabolism is still raised above normal resting levels and is therefore still burning calories at a higher than normal level. It is more commonly referred to as the “after burn e...