Speed Power & Strength Training

ShareChains are used sometimes during a year to make the exercise different. It makes your body accelerate the movement fast because you have to “outrun” the chain as it makes the weight harder and harder on the way up. This was a simple non maximal ...

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ShareHere is my workout for today, its the end of a strength development phase of 15 days. I managed to do 125kg for 3 reps on the bench press and today worked up to 140kg for 1 fairly easy rep. I tried 147kg but did ...

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Share After 16 hours of airplanes and airports and another 3 hours of train rides, I arrived in Halmstad, Sweden for Coach Charles Poliquin’s Sports Specific Training course. We will go through 5 days of program design, principles and application of stretching, strength training and ...

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ShareIt’s no point knowing. Knowledge is useless till it is applied. And that is where the art of coaching meets the science of training. There are 4 general types of clients that we see, either as kids, children, youth or adults. And each type requires ...

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ShareWhen I join a basketball tournament,  I am now an athlete “in-season”. I may play up to 4 full court games in a weekend. There are 2 common mistakes athletes (and unfortunately… coaches as well) make during sports season time. They either… Stop Strength training ...

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ShareI was thinking about this recently. Most of us have degrees/diplomas/certifications in many things. But when it comes to the true value of education, I find many people lacking. The love for life long learning is WAY more important than the degrees we hold. Nothing ...

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ShareThe Senior Instructor of Genesis Health & Performance, Coach Edwin Chew (the only person of Chinese descent in that photo!) just wrote his first article! woohoo. This one is about his experiences coaching the National Singapore Silat team as their strength and conditioning coach.  They ...

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ShareOne of my clients missed 2 training sessions this week. He is one of the most dedicated guys who has gotten some of the best results of any client! But why miss training? Stomach viral flu that’s why. Constant toilet trips for 3 days, and ...

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ShareI like American football. In fact I went to play with a group this past weekend right here in Singapore. 2 of them were nursing hamstring injuries. This is common in sports where there is a lot of sprinting. But why do hamstring injuries happen? ...

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ShareAt the Genesis Performance Center, I recently had a personal training client who was having pain in her hip. The pain comes at the top portion of a squat or dead lift movement. Any time there is a pain in the front of the hip ...

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