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Finding the “Flow Zone”
The Flow Zone Athletes across many sports describe the “flow zone” from Formula 1 drivers to boxers to rugby players and even darts professionals. In lifting, it’s the feeling that anything loaded on the bar is manageable, when you’re not thinking about how to lift, just excited to do it. For most lifters, this isn’t something that can be consciously forced on competition day. But with patient, structured, expert coaching, it is something that can be experienced, and repeate

TEX
Jan 158 min read


Squat Depth: A Deeper Look
Written by Mok “The lifter must bend the knees and lower the body until the top surface of the legs at the hip joint is lower than the top of the knees.” The wording for squat depth is the same for the majority of powerlifting federation’s rulebooks in the UK, so why is the “standard” so controversial and applied so variedly across federations and different equipment (raw, wraps, single‑ply and multi‑ply)? Everyone has been at powerlifting meets and heard “the standard is s

Mok
Dec 22, 202510 min read


Earned, Not Given
“Earned, not Given.” If you’ve been coached by me, you’ve heard it more times than you can count. But what does it actually mean, and why does it matter? For me, ‘EnG’ isn’t a catchy slogan. It’s a coaching philosophy. It shapes how I structure training, how I approach technical development, and how I help lifters build the psychological confidence needed to perform at their best. It’s not the only coaching method out there, some lifters thrive under a more “trust the process

TEX
Nov 14, 20254 min read


WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT RETATRUTIDE?
Mechanistic action & context that’s super important Now I don't want to dive right into the uses of retatrutide and how this could be applied in certain contexts, without giving some background context to the mechanism of action, what this drug actually is and why I believe this compound has truly become the hottest product in the world of performance, longevity and ‘health’. It feels like this has become the injectable, adult equivalent of kids breaking the legs of other kid

SOPHIE
Oct 31, 20258 min read


Building Confidence Through Consistency
“It’s always better to not quite know how strong you are, than to know exactly how strong you are NOT!” Consistency and confidence go...

TEX
Oct 9, 20252 min read


“I’m not built for this lift!”
How often do we hear “I’m not built for ‘x’ lift”, and then see that used as a reason why a lifter doesn’t think they can do much to...

TEX
Sep 16, 20253 min read


Why we don’t stick to one periodisation model, and why you probably shouldn’t either
If you came to this blog post looking to have one style of training or your favourite periodisation model being branded as ‘the best’,...

SOPHIE
Sep 8, 20253 min read
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