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A Genuinely Functional Exercise for BJJ
Sports specific training was a hot topic a while ago, riding in on the back of the whole “functional training” nonsense. It’s still...

Dave Hedges
Apr 17, 20142 min read


Fighting Back – How to Stop Back Pain & Improve Your BJJ Game
It’s finally here! It gives me great pleasure to finally announce the release of Fighting Back – How to Stop Back pain & Improve Your BJJ...

Dave Hedges
Apr 14, 20142 min read


Warming Up for BJJ, Are You Doing It Wrong?
Warming up is a pain in the back side. Everyone hates it, many skip it, other just go through the motions and the rest probably do it...

Dave Hedges
Apr 7, 20142 min read


Build a Power Back to Devastate your Opponents
Today’s post is about power. Specifically it’s about putting as much shocking, traumatic power as possible into the body of another human...

Dave Hedges
Sep 18, 20134 min read


15 Way to Ensure your Training is Actually Functional
Did you catch Wednesdays guest post from Mick Coup? Mick may be a self defence coach, but he’s no stranger to the weight room. His...

Dave Hedges
Aug 23, 20132 min read
Active Recovery, What is it, and how should I apply it?
Here’s a question I get from time to time, and it’s also something I feel to be extremely important, especially for the majority of the...

Dave Hedges
Aug 15, 20134 min read


7 Exercises to Increase Punching Power
There are a few things I really love doing. They are (in no particular order): Playing with my Boys Playing with my Dog Playing with my...

Dave Hedges
Aug 2, 20134 min read


Building a Workout part 1 – Movements
This is quite a big question. But one well worth answering. To be honest, there’s no one simple answer as there are as many workouts as...

Dave Hedges
Jul 31, 20133 min read


To Deadlift or Not To Deadlift?
Last week over on the WG-Fit facebook page, one of my lads posted the following article: Dropping the Deadlift from Scramblestuff.com...

Dave Hedges
Jun 19, 20134 min read


Building Real “Functional” Strength in a Hurry
What do you do when you’ve a limited window of opportunity in which to make strength and conditioning gains before an event? I know this...

Dave Hedges
Jun 17, 20132 min read


My Wife’s PR on the Deadlift and what we can all Learn from it.
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...

Dave Hedges
Jun 12, 20132 min read


The Squat – Progressions and/or Regressions
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...

Dave Hedges
Jun 10, 20133 min read


Don’t lift weights, it’ll slow you down
If I hear one more martial arts or self defence instructor tell their students, or even if I it repeated by hear their students, that...

Dave Hedges
May 6, 20133 min read


Knees, Upper Backs, Strength and Wolverine…….
Today I’ve a few things on my mind. As per normal, my little grey cells are banging on overtime and I’m struggling to tame them into a...

Dave Hedges
May 3, 20133 min read


6 Ways To Improve Overall Athelticism
Finally people are realising the truth and moving back towards the well rounded training methods that have been around for generations,...

Dave Hedges
Apr 29, 20132 min read


1 Piece of Kit, Unlimited Awesome Potential.
I was supposed to write you an awesome blog post for today, I had planned to get it done this morning before the day kicked off with...

Dave Hedges
Apr 5, 20133 min read
Elbow Pain In Boxers, a quick fix
Yesterday one of our Muay Thai lads was chatting to me before his warm up. He’s a very fit, well rounded young athlete, who’s always open...

Dave Hedges
Mar 22, 20133 min read


Top 5 Core Strength Exercises
Last week we did a fair bit talking about the core, its function and some training methods for it. Today I want to expand on by talking...

Dave Hedges
Mar 14, 20132 min read


4 Core Stability Drills, and a Few Variations.
Last week we answered the question “Why is core strength so important?”  Which seemed to go down well,  judging by the amount of shares...

Dave Hedges
Mar 6, 20133 min read


Ask Dave: Building Strength Without Bulk for Boxing
Dave, I know you’re a busy man with a fun filled schedule – but I was wondering when you if you could find a moment could you assist with...

Dave Hedges
Jan 31, 20134 min read
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