The benefits of staying focused and being patient.

Here at Premier Conditioning, we stock a wide range of industry leading True Protein supplements, and can take specific orders from members.

Standards all coaches, trainers, students, exercise scientists and allied health professionals should follow.

One of the biggest catalysts in youth athlete burnout is the lack of effective load monitoring in what is often an extremely demanding schedule.

Everyone is training for different reasons and have various goals; therefore, how you train should differ to people with differing goals. This is where training specificity comes in and refers to the altering of training variables to match your goal (The ASCA, 2022). These variables are frequency, intensity, volume, duration, and mode (The ASCA, 2022).

In the same way that children are not mini adults, and youth athletes have certain training considerations; females are not simply smaller males, and therefore have special training considerations as well.

Returning to the gym and exercise after a COVID-19 infection will often look different and occur at different stages of recovery for different people and usually depends on the severity of the virus that impacted the individual.

The main reason that new year’s resolutions and goals have often fizzled out after a month or two are usually due to a lack of thought and planning going into those goals. If the goal is long term and ambitious, people are likely to abandon it early if they are not seeing results straight away, therefore multiple short-term goals, or an action plan need to be included with your long-term goal.

It’s usually around this time this time of year that the population wants to lose weight for Christmas or the New Year and want to train more intensely in an attempt to make up for the influx of caloric intake that often accompanies the festive season and summer months. It is also still a widely held belief that the best way to achieve this, is by putting yourself through sickening amounts of cardio – this however is not the case.

Running, like every other sporting pursuit, involves specific movements patterns and muscle groups that can be mimicked and enhanced through strength and conditioning training. While admittedly, strength is not as important for running performance as cardiovascular fitness and oxygen delivery, with the right programming and supervision, work in the gym can complement your work on the track or road.

Allowing yourself adequate recovery time in your training schedule is vital, regardless of whether you’re a recreational, competitive, or professional athlete. Any training in high volumes or intensity often leads to muscle soreness, fatigue and deficits in strength and power. A busy and monotonous training program can also cause mental fatigue, boredom, and burnout. As a coach, prescribing the right rest to work ratio as well effective and accessible recovery techniques, is just as important as prescribing the right exercises.

Many women steer away from lifting heavy weights because “it’ll make them look bulky”. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of the health and fitness field and…

In recent years there has been a lot of contention around the safety of resistance training in children and youth athletes. Childhood and early adolescence are key developmental years for…

At Premier Conditioning, we pride ourselves with knowledge and experience like no other. For example, the majority of trainers at other gyms only have their certificate 3 and 4 in fitness and the odd nutrition certificate.