Nick explains how a novice or someone coming back into strength training can approach the basic movements to force strength without putting too much pressure on joints.
Basics How to do press ups and pull ups
Category: Fundamentals of training
All the great articles from the ‘Fundamentals of Training’ category of the Elite Outdoor Fitness blog all in one place.
Fuel and Water Intake
Nick explains the importance of having good balance with food and water intake pre- and post-training. Recovery being as important as the training.
Shoulder Warm-up
Nick explains his routine for basic strength and conditioning upper body warm up.
Accountability
In this video Nick explains the importance of adding accountability to your training to ensure you are accountable or feel accountable for the training and progress you are making; how
Training and Emotional Balance
Nick explains the generic way that most people train and why lack consistency because of plateauing in training, and thus having imbalance at a hormone level.
Benefits of Layering
We have talked about hitting that generic baseline of fitness but how do you increase and layer on top of that rebounding level?
How to start running – Part 03: Consistency
Nick looks at consistency when starting to run for the first time.
How to do press ups and pull ups
Nick explains how you can approach the basic movements to force strength without putting too much pressure on your joints.
How to start running – Part 01: Progression
Nick explains the importance of building up your progression and building in a weekly routine when you are first starting out in running.
Nicks Shocker Session Deadlifts vs Sprints
Nick gives and insight into one of his shocker sessions normally performed twice, this is one of the basic routines to increase capacity mid-way through his training cycle.
Basic Strength and conditioning Progression
Nick explains how to progress when training, specifically in strength and conditioning. Most people don’t reach their potential when starting from the basics.
Antagonistic training and becoming lean
Nick explains how basic strength and conditioning training will help you lose weight, get lean and feel good without spending lots of time training.
Basics of Fell running
Introduction to fell running, the basics of why we introduce fell running into a training program and the mistakes that are made.
Arctic Cold Weather Drills
The arctic is a stunning environment to operate in, the skills and drills you learn there are massively transferable. Things can take a little longer to do, so your personal
Benefits of Bike hill reps
Providing insight into why and how bike hill reps can work as a cross training session for runners. Working slow and fast twitch muscle fibres at all levels. Breaking tempo sessions down into T1, 2 and 3.
