Getting your knee down correctly will help you glide through those bends faster than formula 1 pit stop. Aside from the confidence and trust you have in yourself and the bike there is another factor that could be limiting your ability. Your body! If you have to rock backwards and forwards on a chair and... Continue Reading →

I haven't been here in a while, met me fill you I with what's been going on. My business has been going through a bit of a transition and I have branched out to a more specialised niche. Without further a-do shall we start over? I’m Carla and I’m a strength and conditioning specialist for... Continue Reading →

At 26 years old I was a home owner and a successful business owner. I bought my first house at the age of 19, I lived alone and I was earning enough money to have a good life, pay the bills and not go without. I did work hard, I was a barber and I... Continue Reading →

O.K. so following on from my facebook post on Tuesday 15th May, we're about to find out what happens to our fat when we burn it off...where does it go? When you eat more calories than your body needs, triglycerides (fatty acids) are stored in fat cells. Once you start eating less and/or moving more... Continue Reading →

We burn calories all the time. But how and why does it happen? How did you all do in anatomy in school because I have a little lesson for you. Adenosine tri phosphate (ATP) is your body's way of storing and using energy. ATP has 3 phosphates (hence tri). When a cell needs energy one... Continue Reading →

It's been a while I appreciate! I have actually had a bit of an injury and illness, as well as job change and taking on another huge motorcycle event to organise, so unfortunately it has left me with very little time to devote to Iron Warriors Lifting website and blog! I haven't been to the... Continue Reading →

If you're new to lifting then you may wonder what a compound exercise is, you may have heard the term being used but never told what it was. Compound exercises use several muscle groups in one movement. These are exercises like the squat, using the quads, hamstrings, glutes, core and upper body when holding weight.... Continue Reading →

You're on the last 3 reps and you can feel the bar slowly dropping from your fingers, you have to put the weight down, adjust yourself and go again. This is very common, but I apreciate it's also very frustrating. If it wasn't for my grip failing me I would have gotten a 130kg rackpull... Continue Reading →

Order now! As a personal trainer I was looking for some fitness themed Christmas cards to give to my clients but I couldn’t find any that were a reasonable price. So what did I do? I made my own. I posted these on a Facebook page for fitness professional and the interest and request for... Continue Reading →

If there is one thing I hear more than anything else about protein, it's that if you eat more 30g in one sitting then anything more will be stored as fat. Any time I see a question about this on social media I instantly jump to correct all the bro science specialists out there. So here's the... Continue Reading →