This is the 4th year of our coveted Athlete Development Program. The idea behind this program is to get participants training in a format similar to that performed by athletes during the competitive season. Even if you are not a sports fan, most of us have a huge appreciation for an athlete’s dedication to their…
By Riley Gould If you’ve been hanging around Hammer HQ lately, you may have heard the buzz about our upcoming training clinic ‘Overreaching’. If you’re wondering what the overreaching clinic involves, it’s a 10-day training clinic which we run at the end of each year intending to impose a super-compensation phase while you recover during the…
By Riley Gould Following on from our concurrent training article, this article takes a detailed look at how resistance training can positively affect running performance and reduce time pounding the pavement to get the same, if not better result. More and more we are seeing long distance athletes reducing the amount of kilometres trained in…
By Matt Ham When periodising our programs the way we do, we always consider external loads both outside and inside the gym to achieve optimal results while minimising fatigue, illness and injury. Our upcoming Run Forrest, Run Clinic will incorporate the principles of concurrent training including a higher loads of conditioning (running) combined with resistance exercises that complement our running…
Here are Hammer Athletic, we put a lot of work into our extra-curricular programs like our Athlete Development Program. We often get asked what is involved in these programs and why we run our guys through the drills that we do. Here is quick peek into our sprint session today which had a focus on…
On Saturday 9th of May Hammer Athletic hosted a charity event to raise much needed funds to assist in the ongoing response to the crisis in Vanuatu caused by Cyclone Pam. The response from our extended Hammer Family of clients and friends was overwhelming – you guys made such an effort and are going to…
In the lead-up to our Manilla St Pam Relief event, we will have a range of awesome prizes on display at reception from some of our favourite businesses including Moo Goo, My Food Religion, Paleo Hero and more. Books of tickets are on sale at reception and will be available on the day – $5…
As we are not running a seminar to explain the ins and outs, here is the all the info you need. Following this all we need to know from you is if you are in or out and if you want to do 2 days or 3. If you have no idea what this post is…
Overreachers – we have finalised the Overreaching Timetable for 2014 – please note that it is differs from the timetable published in your manual. We commence the program on Wednesday 10th December and finish on Friday 19th December. Wednesday 10th December – Choose one or the other – HIIT session @ 6am & 6pm (you can…
Today brings us to the end of our 2nd official week of trading – to say that it has been a whirlwind for us wouldn’t even begin to describe the feelings over the last few weeks. We wanted to write a little note to let you know how it’s all going and to thank you…
