by snuadmin | May 12, 2016 | Clinics and Events, Physiotherapy
If you’ve been mentally preparing for our Athlete Development Program – one of our biggest programs of the year – the very last thing you want is to be sidelined with an injury. While we take the very best care in periodising our programs to minimise...
by snuadmin | May 9, 2016 | Clinics and Events, Periodisation and Programming
This is the 4th year of our coveted Athlete Development Program. The idea behind this program is to get participants training in a format similar to that performed by athletes during the competitive season. Even if you are not a sports fan, most of us have a huge...
by snuadmin | Apr 18, 2016 | Periodisation and Programming
In the next phase of training, we change the focus of the program from out and out strength and move to a strength/power focus. However, we don’t do this without maintaining an element an element of the strength component, as we do not want to lose any of the capacity...
by snuadmin | Apr 8, 2016 | Opinion, Strength and Conditioning
By Matt Ham. So I was doing my usual scroll through my news feed on Facebook when I came across a bodybuilder/sculptor (for ease of reference, let’s call him Lou) who had posted something that a friend of mine had liked. What caught my attention however was not...
by snuadmin | Mar 21, 2016 | Periodisation and Programming
Commensurate with our year-round approach to client periodisation here at Hammer Athletic, we are about to embark on our Strength Intensification phase; meaning that we will partake in a program that increases strength capacity. By approaching the year in two halves,...