Athletic Club East

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If you're looking for better health and fitness advice than you get from the mainstream media, ACE reopens January 4th Tuesday. Message us to start and see how we can improve how you look, feel and perform!

DEADLIFT
The properly-performed deadlift is, in some ways, the most useful lift for everyday life, since generally if you encounter something heavy you'll have to lift it off the floor and stand up with it. It won't be a convenient barbell shape but if you can lift a big weight on a barbell you c...

Water is necessary to life. People have survived weeks and even months without food, but perish without water in a few days. It aids digestion and many other functions of the body.

The recommendation for water consumption for men is 2.6 and women 2.1lt a day; it’s proportional to bodyweight. How...

HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR MUSCLES

Train movements, and the muscles will follow.

People like to speak of “muscle activation”. Physiotherapists make entire careers from diagnosing people with particular “sleepy” muscles and coming up with exercises to wake them up. Personal trainers with aspirations t...

FIRST, STRENGTH

The basic physical qualities are strength, endurance and mobility. Ideally we train all three, but this leads to long workouts. Could it be that if we train one it’ll help the others?

If we go for a walk or run, we improve endurance, but this does nothing to make us stronger or ...

“I DON’T WANT TO GET TOO BIG.”

Maybe you should get bigger. Be awesome, not humble. Be strong, not weak. Be loud, not silent. Be more, not less.

A friend of mine works in HR, and she tells me that one of the reasons women in professional jobs earn less than men is because they ask for less. If ...

HABITS ADD UP

The effect on your health of any particular cigarette you smoke, the chances of it being the one which kills you is very, very small. Almost zero. But the accumulation of each cigarette on top of the other over many years means a much bigger effect. Nobody is better off because the...

The clean, the press, the front squat and the snatch-grip deadlift make up the Athletic version of the ACE programme. They are suitable for a healthy young person with a background in physical training. We use other variations for older people and beginners.