[cro_video no=”https://youtu.be/7e9CI3YnH0E”] Test your knowledge of Olympic Lifting by telling us which hang clean lift was performed correctly and why. The first correct answer in the comments section below will win a Hammer Athletic merchandise pack which includes a shirt, cap and towel. No idea? Anyone interested in learning these difficult exercises, or fine tuning…
As you’ve glanced around the gym in between your third and fourth sets – wishing it was all over – you may have noticed our strength standards table on the (fricking amazing) chalk board. The purpose of this table is to give you all some guidance as to where you should be when it comes to strength…
Whether you’re a competitive athlete, or just love to train, you can benefit from our unlimited conditioning classes bundle, for only $20 a week. You might be conditioning for fitness, performance, body composition, or just wanting to shake up your routine and get active. Whatever your reason for training, we have classes to suit you. And if we…
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…
Ever wanted to own your own piece of Hammer Athletic promotional material? Who wouldn’t, right? Folks, today is your lucky day because from January 2015 we will be releasing a series of t-shirts that are available to our athletes in exchange for a small sum of your hard earned cash. The first to feature in our…
Written by Kristine Ham and Matthew Ham In a recent rant[i] by an industry colleague, it was pointed out that the fitness industry as a whole was providing a disservice to the general population. It was claimed that fitness professionals in general (PT’s, coaches, even nutritionists) were not doing their job, and despite the growing…
Starts 25th May 2013 Here is your next ‘kicker’ for the year. The Hammer Performance Athlete Development Program (ADP). Don’t let the name scare you, if you don’t consider yourself an ‘athlete’ it’s ok – you are going to train like an athlete would train, you will eat, be measured, tested and coached the way…
“Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevate” has for years been the accepted and oft quoted way to address injury. You roll your ankle and quickly you run for the ice/peas, sit down and place it on the injured ankle. However, what if current research is starting to challenge the accepted norm? At this point, I know…
Welcome to part two of my stretching blog. To bring you up to speed on what we touched on with last blog, I am not a big believer in static stretching, I left the last blog with the following conclusion: “At this point, the research that I have covered suggests that static stretching is a…
Strength and Conditioning for children is a topic that lies very close to my heart as it is something I intend on dedicating the rest of my professional career to. The intention of this article is to communicate that strength and power activities for children have an incredibly advantageous effect on their development, so long…
