Making the Change Over 4 years ago, completely disillusioned with the fitness industry and how personal trainers were managed, including myself, I made the decision that I wanted to work in team sport. Therefore, I would have to return to [...]
Tips for Becoming a Strength & Conditioning Coach A Growing Industry With over 6,000+ sports related graduates in the UK alone every year, strength & conditioning is now one of the fastest growing industries in both the UK & Ireland. [...]
In sport and exercise, we are often inundated by new trends and fads, many times because people are looking for the quick fix. The secret formula in sport will never be a quick fix. Success is a long process of [...]
Training at home with no or minimal equipment is not equivalent to going to the gym. If you are a professional athlete, training at home can't be your first choice unless you have a professional home gym with everything you [...]
How many times did you ask yourself if you were doing the right amount of reps at a given load? Often, athletes without a coach make the mistake of doing too many total reps, or too little at a certain [...]
With over 13 years' working within health and fitness, Dean Lester has experienced first-hand the benefits of Strength & Conditioning within Personal Training. Witnessing both positive and negative movements in the fitness industry, he recognises Strength & Conditioning as important [...]
Becoming a nutritionist, personal trainer or both shouldn’t always be about weight loss. Too often you see the online marketing focusing solely on how many kilos a person has lost to draw the eyes of new potential clients. Fair enough, [...]
Performance nutrition and making weight is a fine balance between achieving the required weight loss without affecting the athletes performance and energy levels. It can also have a huge psychological effect so making things easier for your athlete on a [...]
Ahead of Uruguay's first match against Fiji in the Rugby World Cup, we sit down with Setanta College student, Dean Lester, who took up a 9-month strength and conditioning internship with the Uruguay National Rugby Union. Working alongside Craig White, [...]
A fascinating sub-plot to this Rugby World Cup is the story of the Irish names involved. Within Federazione Italiana Rugby there is obviously the head coach, Conor O'Shea, while a key member of the Italian backroom team hails from Dundrum, [...]
