Today’s session was always going to be a test. A test of my strength after my week off training. At the start of the program that I currently doing I set myself several strength goals. Of all the goals that I wanted to achieve squatting 140kg for
Read more →Today’s session of Legs and Shoulders reminded me of the importance of functional strength. For the uninitiated functional strength is training to improve on movements that we as humans perform everyday such as walking, jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, turning, standing, starting, stopping,
Read more →During my shift today at work a mate who I sometimes discuss training with was telling me about the great strength gains he was achieving using plate loaded hammer strength machines and wondered if I had considered using them as part of my routine. I explained to
Read more →Now that the Rugby League football season is over, there is no more Friday Night Football for me to watch. This means that Friday night is now another night a week that I can train. Whilst I don’t use eXcuses for not training, I always tried to
Read more →This morning I was sound asleep in bed when at 5:00am I received a text message on my phone. As I am away for work at the moment I woke up rolled over and check who the message was from. When I looked I saw it was
Read more →For today’s weight training session I had Mrs Niko as a training partner. Before we went into ‘The Pit’ for a session of back and biceps we had a talk about the weights that Mrs Niko was using as she had made a comment that she felt
Read more →Today I had a pretty full on day ahead of me with work and family commitments, but I still wanted to train. As I normally do, last night, I looked at my schedule to see where I could fit in a session and decided the only time
Read more →Today I am back up the Sunshine Coast for work, so after my shift, I headed back to the ‘Muscle Hut’, which is based in Kawana, about a 10 minute drive away from where I am staying. When I got there I noticed the gym to be
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My name is Niko. I’m a 35 year-old happily married, shift working, father of two boys. My whole life I have been involved in sport, through high school and my early to mid-twenties I was heavily involved in playing Rugby League and weight training. 
