We are only as good as our weakest link. If your fingers, thumbs or hands are cracked and/or sore whatever you are doing in the great outdoors, or indoors, becomes a lot less enjoyable. Climb on! Intensive skin care (lotion bar, creme and lip balm) was designed with a climber’s hands in mind. But it’s […]
Exercise and sport in pregnancy: don’t listen to the newspapers, or women’s magazines. In every aspect of health, fitness and wellbeing we encourage you to take control, take responsibility, and get informed from credible sources. It’s no different when it comes to the beautiful status of pregnancy and ensuring good health for yourself and your […]
Balance Performance is happy to be supporting the GSU British Kettlebell Sport Open Championship with prizes this Sunday (September 1st, 2013) at Reebok Sports Club, Canary Wharf, London [for details follow the link at the foot of this blog]. Balance has a long association with Kettlebells going back to 2003 when Jonathan Lewis introduced a […]
Hi all. Just to let you all know about a workshop that should be of interest to all runners, triathletes who consider good movement, strength and conditioning work essential to performance. Its not as simple as lifting weights but it is as simple as learning from a world class coach. Next weekend we have Steve […]
Balance has a long standing connection with Stephen Aish of The Strength Academy going back to when we first started using Kettlebells in 2003. We are very pleased to be hosting Stephen and The Strength Academy for: ” a 4 hour public workshop, teaching complete beginners how to safely and correctly use kettlebells October 7th 2012 […]
Another guest blog from JP Brice of CrossCore USA. We have a piece to follow about JPs personal story with CrossCore 180 and how even as a very strong bodybuilder Rotational Bodyweight Training™ helped him with his chronic low backpain. In meantime here is why CrossCore USA are so passionate about the CrossCore180® and why Balance Performance […]
Balance Performance has been involved in kettlebell lifting for fitness, rehab and performance since 2003. Since that time hand care has been a consistent topic of conversation amongst KB practitioners on the kettlebell oriented blogs and forums like RKC Dragon Door whilst at kettlebell workshops students display their worn and torn calluses off with pride. […]
Tuesday, June 19th: 1830-2130 Steve Cotter – World Class Strength and Conditioning Teacher and founder of the International Kettlebell & Fitness Federation – is back at Balance Performance, London UK on Tuesday June 19th to deliver a masterclass in kettlebell technique. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced practitioner you will benefit from the opportunity […]
If your intention is to gain usable strength, power, speed then you need to emphasise exercises, drills, movements that involve purposeful (compound, multi-joint, functional) actions performed against appropriate levels of resistance to promote strength, power, develop speed. Simple. Equally simple is that the only real requirement from the facility/space you train in is that is […]
Balance has been teaching its clients how to use Kettlebells since 2003. Back then there was only one Certification workshop to attend and that was the RKC created by Pavel Tsatsouline and Dragon Door which I did in 2004. Things are VERY different now with an abundance of workshops, kettlebell businesses and trainer certifications available […]