Jumps, sprinting, pulling or pushing – the more you fit in as a youth, the more you extend your limits for a life in sports.There is an amazing window from around age 10 to late teens when you can maximise bone strength for life with simple resistance training.I’ll cover the remarkable shot you have in […]
You have a puberty superpower to develop muscle tone for life and you need to grab it now. Between the ages of 10 to 17 you have literally a once-in a lifetime opportunity to turn your type 1 slow twitch muscles into type 2 fast twitch muscles. Toned muscles are the classic representation of athletes […]
Since the first Olympics great runners have been god-like. Leonidas of Rhodes won the race in armour and shield (kitted out in bronze…) as well as flat sprints in several early Olympics. Ageas won a a 3500m race in the morning and ran a bonus 100km (!!!) in the afternoon to go and announce his […]
The Team Magnus motto is sports injure, sofas kill. Your body is perfectly equipped to restore itself after injuries. But one risk zone happens to be away from our line of vision…. Man vs cheetahHuman feet are complex, composed of 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 100 muscles, each with its own tendon/ligament. It is […]
Big massive hammer throwers. Slim and muscular jumpers. Tall for basketball, sturdy for rugby. These are just some archetypes of the bodies which fit a certain sport. Is predestination real – and even if it’s the case – does it affect junior sports enjoyment? Somatotypes is the term for main body types: endomorph, mesomorph and […]
What’s the link between sports success and money spent? Some sports are expensive from the get-go. If you see ponies, laser boats or 125cc go-karts on your kids’ wish list, it’s a red flag. That’s the firing shot for a lifetime of sports expenditure. Other sports require specialist venues. Many parents drive thousands of miles […]
Many world champions would never make it to the cover of a Men’s health magazine. Hammer throwers, weightlifters, sumo wrestlers, shot put throwers… they don’t fit our stereotypes of athletes. Archery, golf, curling, bowling, etc… do they even have a type? All of them achieve physical feats most of us can only dream of, so […]
Many people mix up heavy sweating and weight loss and I suspect this myth originated in combat sports. There are strict weight categories to fall within for boxers and wrestlers. On the day of the fight, the athlete can reduce their bodyweight by sweating heavily so that they scrape into their preferred (lighter) weight class. […]
If you want to achieve health gains through diets, you will have heard of keto or the ketogenic diet. If you’ve seen a lot of influencers push it, then maybe pause to consider the whole picture. Ketones Ketones form one of our emergency systems. When your carbohydrate intake drops to pretty much zero, the only […]
The right kit keeps kids outside for longer. Regardless of the activity, you’re likely to go at a slower pace than you would do without kids, assuming they are beginners. So make sure your own patience isn’t impacted by cold feet two hours into your ski trip. Outer layers The most common mistake is to […]
