Improve your rowing technique and get the most out of the Rowing Ergometer. The Rowing Ergometer is an easily accessible and low impact cardio machine that can be found in…
Tracking Your Strength Gains If you have found your way to the ION Training blog, you’re probably familiar with how great lifting inanimate objects and then putting them back down…
When it comes to Gym terminology, how much do you really know and how much are you guessing? Have you ever heard a term or phrase in the gym and weren’t…
Every year at Christmas time we read article upon article on how to “beat the Christmas kilos” or “avoid undoing all your hard work”. So let’s set the record straight…
MOTIVATION TO TRAIN Motivation is an interesting concept – its simplest definition is a desire or a drive for some form of change within your life whether that be a…
Habits are regular behaviours practiced over time. They are the small decisions that are made each and every day, both conscious and unconscious. Some sources claim that we can make…
IS STATIC STRETCHING POINTLESS? When is the last time you performed the stretch below? Well if you have not performed it while wearing a tie and an intense facial expression…
WHY SPECIALIST BOUTIQUE GYMS & STUDIOS? Have you ever found yourself in a commercial gym participating in a class where you have no idea what’s going on and your only…
The link between exercise and good nutrition is very important when it comes to eating for performance. As a professional Rugby League player over the last decade, I have learnt…
The Cambridge dictionary defines the word “coaching” as “the job or activity of providing training for people or helping to prepare them for something”. In essence, at ION we are…