The Importance Of The Warm Up Before Lifting
When it comes to the warm-up, many may think it’s simply a case of a few minutes on the treadmill and away you go. But, when it comes to lifting weights, the warm-up has an important part that you should focus on. So, I want to briefly run through it to give you some ideas […]
Continue readingHow Jake Overcame Football Injuries By Strength Training
Over the last 6 months, I’ve been working with Jake McCrann to help him overcome some football injuries. He was getting to the stage of his footballing career that he was starting to get frustrated with niggles and strains. And he didn’t want to start the new season worried about when the next hamstring issue […]
Continue readingHow Personal Training Has Revolutionised Lisa’s Lifting
Today’s StrongLife Success Story is about how personal training helped revolutionise Lisa’s training. Lisa Duignan (no relation) hails from Annaduff in the might county of Leitrim. Now I’ve had one or two from that area come train here before. And it’s fair to say, they could be classed as a character. But I had a […]
Continue readingHow The Fitness Industry Is Negatively Impacting Teenage Boys
Is the fitness industry negatively impacting teenage boys? After many months, I’m finally sitting down to write this. I want to write this following a few talks I done in a boys school in Co. Longford back in May this year. But more importantly, I’m writing it after a conversation I had with a 13 […]
Continue readingFrom ACL Surgery To Back On The Pitch
Today’s story is all about how Muiris went through pre and post ACL surgery training here in Stronglife Gym and how he is now back on the pitch playing matches less than 9 months after surgery. Not only that, but he has regained all his strength gains from over a year ago while banishing the […]
Continue readingGarda Fitness – Failure wasn’t an option this time
So yesterday morning (Saturday the 27th August) I got a text from PT client Katie to say she had passed her Garda fitness exams and she’s now going to be joining An Garda Siochana as she embarks on her new career. But it wasn’t straight forward for her. She had already done the exam a […]
Continue readingStrongLife To StrongWife: Mary Shanley
So today’s post is how Mary Shanley has gone from StrongLife to StrongWife over the last 6 months. On Saturday the 30th, she’s getting married and over the last 6 months we’ve worked together to have her looking awesome on her big day! Here’s what Mary has had to say: “Back at the start […]
Continue readingScrawny to Brawny: George’s Story
For anyone following the gym, you’ll have seen George’s name pop up every now and again. And it is with good reason too. Here’s how George went from Scrawny to Brawny George was one of the first guys to join the gym on opening back in 2014. Since then, he has never been afraid to […]
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