Sarcopenia Costs The UK £2.5 Billion Per Annum!
Welcome to post 32 of Strength and Conditioning for Therapists. Following on from the last post, this week we’re going to focus a little more on the impact of muscle weakness. What is Sarcopenia? So mostly when people think of sarcopenia they think of it as a reduced muscle mass that is associated with ageing. […]
Relax, You’re Getting Older – Muscle Strength and Ageing
Image attributes: By Unknown – Giuseppe Ottaviani, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27145755 Welcome to post 31 of Strength & Conditioning for Therapists. Firstly, a quick announcement: this blog will now be moving to bi-weekly posts. Whilst I absolutely love writing these posts and the value that they give (thank you for your lovely e-mails), I want […]
FAQs on Strength and Conditioning
Hey everyone. I hope you’re well and have enjoyed a productive couple of weeks. Today we’re addressing some of the most common FAQs on strength and conditioning. As you may have noticed, it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted. I’ve been really busy, like really busy launching my online Strength & Conditioning course […]
The Psychology of WHY; How to Get Buy In
Welcome to post 29 of Strength & Conditioning for Therapists. It’s a real pleasure today to welcome a fantastic guest; someone with a brilliant mind, oodles of experience and qualifications and some tremendously helpful strategies for those involved in encouraging behaviour change. Like therapists for example! So something a little different to normal, but I […]
What IS Muscle Strength?
Welcome to post 28 of Strength & Conditioning for Therapists. I’m getting a little bit excited in anticipation of announcing the launch of my new 6-week Online S&C Course – for therapists, of course! Keep your eyes peeled over the next week for the announcement. In the meantime, let’s focus back on the post – […]
Stimulating Muscle – Is It Useful?
Welcome to week 26, and today we’re going to delve into stimulating muscle and from a neuromuscular assessment perspective. So what is muscle stimulation, how is it performed and what data can we derive from these assessments? I spent a great deal of time during my PhD developing a new technique for the assessment of […]
Strength & Conditioning – Where are we heading?
Bonjour! Today I join you from France, enjoying a week’s holiday. As I take a wee break, I will be reflecting (I admit, I wrote this before I departed) on the Strength & Conditioning for Therapists blog series and thinking about the content for the coming autumn. Firstly let me say a HUGE thank you […]
Prediction Equations for 1RM
Hello one and all and welcome to post 24 of Strength & Conditioning for Therapists. By request, we’re looking a prediction equations for Repetitions Maximum (RM), or percentages of them today. The 1RM (Repetition Maximum) A common assessment of muscular strength is the one-repetition maximum or 1RM, which is the amount of load that can […]
What is Non-Linear Periodisation?
Welcome to post 23 of Strength & Conditioning For Therapists. Today we’re looking at non-linear periodisation training. What Is Periodisation? Several weeks ago (post number 3 actually), I wrote a post on periodisation and presented a way in which it could be used in rehabilitation. Since then, I’ve been asked a few times specifically what […]
Top 3 Mistakes Physios Make in S&C
Rather provocative title eh? Welcome to post 22 of Strength & Conditioning for Therapists … if you’re still here and reading this 😉 The reason for the title, and the topic, is that I’ve been asked this specific question several times over past couple of months – and by physiotherapists too! Whether it be on […]