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View fullsize Playing around with some lower body tricks between sets in tonight’s upper body strength class. Swipe across to see the Hawaiian squat, a simple stall bar pike stretch, Sissy Squat, Egg squat, and the Dragon pistol. Improvement knows no beginni
View fullsize So, in a desperate attempt to avoid posting offers like most businesses, or flying the counter-cultural flag too hard and saying how we don’t believe in reducing our value- here’s a list stolen from somewhere of things that you can do for
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View fullsize Another first this time Petra hitting her first chin up after weeks of hard work. Notice the standards as always full range of motion and chest to bar. If you want to get your first, get in touch and get training! #theoriginalgymmuscleup #calisthenic
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View fullsize Coming soon: 30 minutes of SUPER High Intensity Interval Training (S.H.I.I.T.30®) High Intensity interval training has been around while, but nowadays it's becoming ever more popular with gym owners and other fitness professionals. Hour long clas
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View fullsize Super hero Joe. Unfortunately, there’s no “before” pic of Joe, but he literally couldn’t lift his arm overhead when we started, and now Joe is supporting his entire body weight directly over head. Joe was given sensible progre
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View fullsize Sad news that Charles Poliquin passed away last week. Many of the elements of our program design were either the product of or popularised by Charles Poliquin, such as structural balance ratios, tempo prescriptions and so on. His books and manuals al
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View fullsize The foot. 26 bones, 33 joints, more than 100 individual muscles, and one 20kg bar. Partner body work before weightlifting practice to improve sensory input from the foot and then improve stability, aka waking it up. If this is uncomfortable, you have
View fullsize Another Saturday morning “Lift, Jump” session. We did specific activation and mobility work, jumping and balancing skill development work, and then a big emphasis on posterior chain strength with deadlifts and back extensions, before head
View fullsize Like an iceberg - only a small amount of what we do is visible on the surface. The heart of our approach is summed up in the words of Moshe Feldenkrais- “Movement is life. Improve the quality of your movement, and you will improve the quality o
View fullsize Front levers in tonight’s 6:15pm class. Extra points to @msmonkeymind for being 20 weeks pregnant. #theoriginalgymmuscleup #prenatal #cambridgeuk #cambridgetown #normanindustrialestate #cambridgegym #cambridge #personaltrainercambridge
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View fullsize One arm hanging challenge after class tonight #cambridgeuk #movementculture #theoriginalgymmuscleup
View fullsize Tonight’s “Muscle Up” session in the park enjoying the sunshine! We warmed up and did mobility work for the shoulder and t-spine, then did skill work including handstands, basic strength work pushing and pulling, then some organic s
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