“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” – Theodore Roosevelt, November 4, 1910. As regular as…
If by now you haven’t heard, The Hamlow Medal is the new award which we will be using to acknowledge stand-out efforts in the gym. (More info on The Hamlow Medal) It is considered the highest honour for individual athletes at Hammer Athletic, and the phase 6 winner has now officially been chosen by the coaches. So without further ado, the winner…
Irrespective of what field you work in, it is very rare that any plan – from conceptualisation to implementation – comes off the way you’d expect and hope for. Now I am pretty average at statistics and try never to get too embroiled in such soul destroying activities of being on excel for countless hours. For the…
As regular as a leadership challenge in Australian politics, the approaching warmer months provide the impetus and motivation to get in shape before indulging in all the benefits summer has to offer. Staying true to the Hammer philosophy however means that there is no 8 or 12-week ‘bikini/budgie smuggler’ challenge on our schedule. What we…
It seems like everyone has seen or at the very least, heard about ‘The Mountain’ (or Hafthor Bjornsson to his friends) from Game of Thrones by now. With that physique appearing on one of the most popular television shows of the last 10 years, it is fair to say that he has reinvigorated the interest…
When ADP concluded a month ago it was the culmination of our first 6-month macro cycle. Our next phase (accumulation intensification phase) is the very start of our next macro cycle or 6 month plan. In-between phases we saw a 3-week transition or off season phase, where we de-loaded our guys from 6 months of bloody…
If you’ve been mentally preparing for our Athlete Development Program – one of our biggest programs of the year – the very last thing you want is to be sidelined with an injury. While we take the very best care in periodising our programs to minimise injury, sometimes the odd niggle here and there is…
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…
In the next phase of training, we change the focus of the program from out and out strength and move to a strength/power focus. However, we don’t do this without maintaining an element an element of the strength component, as we do not want to lose any of the capacity we just established in the…
By Matt Ham. So I was doing my usual scroll through my news feed on Facebook when I came across a bodybuilder/sculptor (for ease of reference, let’s call him Lou) who had posted something that a friend of mine had liked. What caught my attention however was not what he said but the fact that…
