Fitness Shop Heart rate monitors, foam rollers, forerunner gps, kettlebells and more.   Site design by Steve Bridgeman Sitemap - Fitness Articles - Tewkesbury Boxing - Circuit Training - Fitness Shop  Fitness Training Articles Welcome to the fitness articles page. The menu on the left will list the fitness training articles i have written. Articles will cover a range of subject matter such as stretching, fat loss, aerobic training, injury prevention and strength training and much more. Being someone that needs to know the reasons behind everything some of the fitness material will be more science based, perhaps going into energy systems and the role your fitness training has in preparing these systems, or perhaps even how muscles stretch, strengthen and weaken with relevant references from supporting literature. Other material may be more anecdotal or purely from my own personal viewpoint and experiences, perhaps with less emphasis on the science. One thing that must be made clear is that the fitness industry is full of contradictions and misinformation. Where one piece of research supports a hypothesis, another will dispute it. Research methods and analysis will always have an influence on the data that is presented. One will also find numerous methods, explanations or practices which all achieve the same end result. Ultimately everyone should remember that there are many different fitness training methods, thousands of different exercises and lots of different people with a variety of fitness goals. Through all these differences there are some evidence based principles of training which are the same for everyone. All articles i write will be based around my education but most importantly my practical experiences from a personal and professional level.  On reading my articles i encourage you in the words of the great Bruce Lee to "Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"