Functional Strength UK

Build the athlete before the sport. 🏃

📍 All sessions are located on Champions Business Park.

🗓️ Thursdays

⏰ 5pm

For Boys & girls.

To sign up please comment below or DM.

Our Youth Athletic Development classes (ages 8–11) focus on developing movement competency, coordination, speed, strength, and confidence.

Giving young athletes the physical foundation to participate, perform, and thrive in any sport as they grow. The goal isn’t just better performance now, it’s creating capable movers for the future.

All coaches are UKSCA accredited and enhanced DBS checked.

These sessions will be limited to small numbers to enable our coaches to provide the best for your child’s development.

The foundations of the sn**ch 🏋️‍♂️

Like anything worth achieving, this takes time and patience. Build solid foundations first and foremost.

If you would like to learn how to perform the Olympic lifts from beginner right through to the competitive stage just comment below and we can get you in under the watchful eyes and tutelage of our coaches.

New Olympic Weightlifting Class.

This class is designed and coached to teach you the fundamentals of weightlifting and how to build upon that each week.

Learning the sn**ch and clean and jerk along with other strength based movements to help support olympic weightlifting.

Comment or message if interested.

Ab exercise Effectiveness by EMG activity.

What is EMG activity?
EMG activity measures the electrical signals produced by muscles during contraction, showing how much a muscle is activated during an exercise. Things to be aware of however, EMG placement can affect readings.

Does this mean these exercises make you stronger?
No 100% guarantees but with correct application of reps sets and resistance where appropriate you can certainly achieve strength gains. Key takeaway from this is that understanding activation is fantastic when wanting to develop awareness, stability and ensure we are recruiting the areas we want to see adaptation from. But this doesn’t automatically make you stronger.

How should I use this information?
Fantastic for ensuring you are recruiting all areas of the trunk(360 degrees of the “core”).
If you have identified a weakness in either abdominals or obliques then this can be used as a menu to choose the most effective exercises from.

Full credit to the .hip.physio for creating a post utilising all this information from the studies below.

References.

• Escamilla RF et al. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther, 2010
• Escamilla RF et al. Phys Ther, 2006
• Cugliari G et al. J Sports Sci, 2017
• Calatayud J et al. Clin Biomech, 2019
• García Vaquero MP et al. J Strength Cond Res, 2014
• Snarr RL, Esco MR. J Strength Cond Res, 2014
• Bjerkefors A et al. J Electromyogr Kinesiol, 2010
• Oliva Lozano JM et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020

Rotational strength and power 💥

Place these movements inside an already well established program with the strength essentials.