Wild Geese Martial Arts & Fitness

The New Year hangovers should be receding by now and most of you will be looking to get cracking back into your routines. It can be tough...

Yeah! It's finally here! It’s finally here! I’ve been promising this for an age, but it’s finally done. What took so long? Simply put, I...

He said “Train like you’re in a hurry” What does this mean and how is it beneficial? Lets look at what Mick does, and what most of my...

Well, what a weekend! Mick Coup was at Wild Geese for a 2 day Core Combatives seminar, I’ll be writing a full report for the Wild Geese...

Up until recently most boxing coaches would tell you to get out and jog every morning, but times are changing. We now realise that there...

One of my members sent me through the following link and asked my opinion. I’ll let you have a look over it first before hearing what I...

Specific training leads to specific improvements, it also leads to specific weaknesses. For example, many of our kickboxers experience...

The core is not just the 6 pack muscle (rectus abdominis), and core training is not just about doing crunches. Ok, some of you know this...

Fitness. What is it? Back at personal trainer school they tell you that it is “the ability to carry out the daily tasks with enough...

A favourite training method of mine, and one that has proved very popular with my fighters is the Power circuit format. Power Circuits is...

Knee pain and jujitsu / wrestling seem to go hand in hand, but does it have to be this way? My opinion is no, it doesn’t. Due to the...

Dan John, in a T-Shirt, carrying a sandbag, dragging a sled. In the snow! Have you ever been over to the T-Nation website? It’s a vast...

Just a short post today, I’ve been a busy over the weekend with my boy’s 3rd birthday. On Saturday I took my Kettlebell Fitness class...

So not back squatting because of this injury is akin to giving in to it. It’s compromising because of it. And Wild Geese don’t like...

Over the next 20 years, this is what I’ve continued to do in a variety of ways. I’ve run, cycled, Yoga’d, Pilates’d, I’ve lifted heavy...

This is a word of warning. I seriously urge, no,  I insist that all women must stick with light weights. After all, we know that as soon...

"The Hips Don't Lie" and who are we to argue? Hips have been a hot topic around here at the moment. An Fear Rua, a major website...

This Sunday I’m running the Level 1 Kettlebell Lifting Workshop from 11am at Wild Geese HQ. There are a couple of spots left open if you...

Jamie says "Do Crunches" Haven’t done an “In Defence Of……” for a while and it’s about time I did. So today we are defending the Crunch....

Wrist injuries are very common amongst the martial arts community. The wrist is a complex joint that is designed for mobility, yet when...