Wild Geese Martial Arts & Fitness

Driving the other day and on the radio came the classic Ian Drury track from 1977, "Reasons To Be Cheerful, part 3" If you don't remember...

The single most common cue you will hear from any lifting coach is "chest up" I'm surprised that no enterprising DJ has created a gym...

Last week finished off with a regular client of mine who hasn’t been able to get in for some time. The reason he couldn’t get in is down...

Karate. Joining Karate was the launch of my career. Taking up martial arts gave me a focus, something that was my own. An endeavour to...

I’m a huge fan of breathing. I’m fairly sure I’m not alone in this, after all, more people do it than don’t…. Bad jokes aside, it’s kind...

“Hi Dave, quick question..zoo training or animal movement training or whatever it’s called! Are you a fan of it? I know you have a video...

Many people say they don’t have time to exercise. I don’t believe them. What most people mean is they can’t be bothered training. If they...

Lets take a show of hands. All those who’ve NEVER experienced knee pain or injury put your hand up. Those who’ve had PAIN in their knees...

“Bodybuilding is about time under tension, Kettlebell Lifting is about time out of tension” – Valery Federenko Over the years I’ve been...

Snatch Welcome to the first in a series of posts covering the Kettlebell Snatch. (Links to the rest: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part...

Today’s post is about power. Specifically it’s about putting as much shocking, traumatic power as possible into the body of another human...

It’s been a few weeks since I gave you a “Monday Mobility” post, for that I apologise. So here is a great drill I like to use, especially...

So thank you. Today I want to talk about it’s cousin, the Windmill. The windmill is a cool lift but one lives in the shadow if it’s...

Over in the ever entertaining world of facebook I’ve been watching people debate, argue or simply ask about the correct height that you...

Just a short post today. I’ve been sitting up working on a secret project for the My Mad Methods guys and have left it a little late to...

Good morning. Today is Monday, that means in your regular gym, unless WGF is your regular gym, the place will be wall to wall bench...

Before we get to that, One of my lads was working with push ups and asked me to put up a few variations for him, always happy to oblige I...

I’ll be judging the participants according to four criteria: Fitness Test, up to 15% of overall score Technical Competence, up to 25% of...

Finally people are realising the truth and moving back towards the well rounded training methods that have been around for generations,...

It’s been a while since I ran a workshop in our own gym. This year I’ve been to the far flung corners of Ireland teaching, but other...