THE BASICS TO BODY WEIGHT TRAINING

It was summer - sun was setting and we were on some train tracks after a session of looking for new spots. At some point we came across a sign pole and for some reason, I tried to Flag Pole - It wasn't anything great, however, I managed to pull it off.

This was the exact moment when I fell in love with Calisthenics and all things related. From this moment on, I just wanted to get stronger.

It started off a few years ago when my friends joined the European craze of Parkour/Free Running. There weren't that many people doing it in Cape Town at the time, however its popularity was growing and growing fast. It didn't take long before I was attempting to jump gaps, scale walls and everything else that came with this intense free roaming sport

SUPPLEMENT USERS HANDBOOK SAMPLE CHAPTER: Creatine

So as I'm busy writing up THE SUPPLEMENT USERS HANDBOOK that will feature all the normal supplements that you get on the market that will answer the most frequently asked questions

- How to take? 

- Best value?

- What to bother with?

This will be up for download in PDF format when completed. So, just to give you guys a look at how it'll be written, I've shown a sample chapter on CREATINE. 

THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO TRAINING pt3: THE BACK

Part 1: Intro
Part 2: The chest

Compared to the chest, the back is a far more highly complex set of muscles and can be worked from many different angles. So for the sake of the reader and not wanting to confuse them, we’ll look at the the major muscle groups:

a) Latissimus Dorsi (Lats)
b) the Trapezius
c) We’ll also throw in the Erector Spinae* 

To make it simple, the muscles of the back are triggered by performing variations of PULLING MOVEMENTS. 

We’ll have a look at one muscle group before looking at the other so as to not have a novel on our hands. 

THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO TRAINING pt2: THE CHEST

 So we're finally back in action and here is our first article - Following where we left off from PART1, which you can find here: THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO TRAINING pt1

So without any more unneeded babbling. Let's get going.

REST IN TRAINING

Resting doesn't go well by me. I'm a very active guy (Well I should be) and I don't like the thought of doing nothing. And that's what most people perceive rest to be. Doing absolute jack. Rest, or recovery as I would rather put it, is hard work. Just like training, rest also has its principles and components to get the best out of it. I will run through a couple of my findings and personal experiences on recovery and hopefully we will have all learned something today.

THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO TRAINING pt1

NOTHING! Not a single thing. That’s what I knew about training when I first stepped into a gym back when I was in Grade 10/11 (2006/2007). I didn’t know what the machines did, I didn’t know what muscles were worked, I didn’t know how to create my own plan, nothing.  I did biceps 3 days in a row if I felt like it, I worked out for 3 hours at a time, crap, just thinking about it makes me feel embarrassed at how little I actually knew.

THE CALLING...

I am sitting giving applause to the three sets of podium finishers on the arena floor: the teams, female and male winners. It is a bittersweet end to what had been the most fantastic weekend of athletic competition I have been privileged enough to be a part of.