Rollers – any benefit to a runner? Yes, we think so!
Foam rollers are useful to improve muscle flexibility and promote muscle “maintenance”. At Pete Fraser Fitness we use them regularly for client prehabilitation (preventative exercise) to help reduce the possibility of injury from tight muscles. Read more to find out how…..
Top fitness maintenance tips from the sports scientists at Pete Fraser Fitness
So you’ve turned your body into that of an athlete! Don’t let all that hard earned fitness slide away? It’s important to maintain your fitness by stimulating the body using varied exercises and training patterns. Here’s our top 5 tips to maintain your physical prowess:
This is a CV strength – endurance exercise excellent for a range of sport specific cross training integration and for general training. At Pete Fraser Fitness we include skipping in our clients` routines to add variation to an aerobic circuit and improve calf and ankle strength.
Find out more about why skipping is in our top 10 list and how it benefits your training.
How may times do we read and hear the term “FAT BURNING” or “BURNING CALORIES”? Possibly every day!
Has anyone actually questioned this physiological impossibility?
Pete Fraser Fitness would like to be the first in the health and fitness industry to categorically state and reveal that humans are not combustion engines and do not somehow set light to fat in order to release energy. Steam may occasionally be seen coming out of our trainers’ ears but only when we hear the words “FAT BURNING”!
Want to learn exactly what does occur in the human body when we create energy from fat, carbohydrates and protein?
Here’s something explosive to improve your speed & power – Olympic Lifting
Most gym based resistance exercise is orientated around basic barbell, dumbbell and machine movements with limited real life application and even less for sport specific improvement. At Pete Fraser Fitness we challenge our clients with lots of exercise variation and Olympic Lifting is a useful method to build functional power into a varied training routine.
Let Pete Fraser Fitness trainer Alex Philipp show you how to perform an Olympic lift and fill you in with the benefits.
Wrong!
Time for a wake-up call! Running only produces minimal strength improvements. For improved running strength and speed you need to do specific strength training. Learn how Pete Fraser Fitness clients train to run faster, stronger and injury free.