Front Cover Man
James Griffiths fronts the cover of Men’s Fitness magazine.
Wild Training are incredibly proud to show off James Griffiths being the front cover man for Men’s Fitness magazine which is being released October 2020.
This incredible achievement is a well deserved reward of recognition for all the hard work that James has put in over the years. He has dedicated his working career to helping others. Since starting out James’ efforts have seen him change the lives of so many people, from his clients to the team around him.
The combination of his passion and drive has seen Wild Training elevate it’s status within the fitness industry. Still helping people who start their Wild Training journey with us, James is now trailblazing the way with hybrid gyms, raising the game for fitness apps with our brand new Wild X app to working as a consultant for other fitness businesses, and now changing the way serious fitness professionals learn and develop their skills to create successful businesses of their own with the Wild Evo instructor training programme.
James and the Wild Training team work very closely together, it’s very much a team effort with a pioneering leader. We have had many challenges along the way, but we make sure we are having fun whilst creating our Wild story, which gets better each day!
THE SCOOP
The feature is all about strongman training and how anyone can get started with this style of exercise, regardless of strength or abilities. Sporting professional photos taken by our Wild member - Ben Machekanyanga, with full explanations of each workout, the feature is incredibly comprehensive as an intro to strongman training, even without traditional strongman equipment.
James’ experiences in strongman training for himself, training others and further research makes the article a great and insightful read for everyone.
Available to buy in October 2020. Make sure you grab your copy!
The Muscle Tunnel just got more muscle
Muscle Tunnel upgrades
The Muscle Tunnel is a key feature of Wild Training, an iconic and well regarded set up amongst our members, strongmen and women locally and afar.
Even legends such as; Laurence Shahlaei (Europe’s Strongest man 2017 and 11 x world’s Strongest man competitor), Terry Hollands (winner of England’s and Britain’s Strongest man competition), Andrea Thompson (x4 Britain’s strongest woman, World’s Strongest woman 2018), James Crossley (‘Hunter’ - Gladiators) come to visit Wild Training to hit the Muscle Tunnel for a workout.
Being far from the bleak and deserted tunnel prior to when Wild Training took over the location, we have made it in to an incredibly versatile training area, which is still growing.
Lockdown was thrown upon us and in true Wild Training style we took this closure opportunity to revamp the entire gym including the Muscle Tunnel.
Essentially, the Muscle Tunnel is comprised of 4 zones.
The Quad
Rig Zone *New 2020
Strongman Zone
Strength Zone *New 2020
The Quad - Top of the Tunnel, classes and free training happens here.
Rig Zone - Assault Rig area. A Wild Training designed rig for classes and free training.
Strongman Zone - Strongman area after the rig. Strongman classes and free training area.
Strength Zone - Bodybuilding, weight machines and free weights area at the end of the tunnel. Classes and free training.
New additions, new styles of exercise.
The new additions open up the Muscle Tunnel to more styles of exercise for everyone.
Our assault rig can be seen as you enter the Muscle Tunnel. Standing tall in all its glory, usually with members hanging off it, hitting beast slastix runs, rope climbs, monkey bar runs, suspension straps attached, the assault rig is how Wild Training make rigs - versatile and just badass. Used for classes, PT, members free training, aerial fitness like Silks, Hoop and Olympic Rings, the rig adds to the unrivalled value of variety which we offer to our members.
The ultimate Strength Zone
The end of the tunnel is now our designated bodybuilding, physique training area.
This exciting addition is a perfect fit for the Muscle Tunnel. An area full of free weights and machinery such as; belt squat, leg extension, reverse hyper, glute drive, lat pull-down, dual cable cross over, prone T-bar, leg curl, incline press, squat racks, seated row, competition bench press. Whether you are in prep for a competition or training for yourself or your sports team, the strength zone is for everyone.
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What is Wild Training
What is Wild Training. Read about the detail that makes this brand so special.
Discover A Life Without Limits - That is to #LiveAWildLife
Wild Training is about empowering people to explore everything the world has to offer with confidence.
Wild Training makes exercise fun, because without fun, why would you start, and why would you carry on maintaining your health and fitness. Making exercise fun is our first value.
Wild Training keeps exercise effective. Making exercise effective when you start something new is easy. Keeping it effective takes creativity and useful experience. That's what Wild Training is the best at. Keeping exercise effective is our second value.
Most importantly, Wild Training includes everyone. We've trained everyone from young children to seniors, people recovering from surgery or managing disabilities, people that have never exercised before and some of the best athletes in our country's history. Including everyone is our third value.
Learn to play with your physical and mental limitations. We're all going to fall over in life, in many different ways. Wild Training will teach you how to make sure you can always get back up and go again.
You will discover you don't need to be good at something to have fun with it, you just have to try. If you have fun with any type of exercise for long enough, you'll get good at it.
Try hard, try often, try everything. That's how Wild Training will help you do so much more than transform your health and fitness. Wild Training will transform your life.
#LiveAWildLife
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Calisthenics - What are they
Caisthenics - what are they, what can they help with.... and why are they called calisthenics?
It's about movement, your body and gravity. Those three things are constant in life, activity and sport, so calisthenics exercise is for everyone.
The word Calisthenics comes from the Greek words “Kallos” and “Sthenos”, which mean beauty and strength. When Greeks saw people mastering their own body weight back in the day they named it beautiful strength. Calisthenics.
Expressive movements from levers and handstands to planches and transitions linking different positions and movements together.
The Urban Strength Training equipment like the Urban Strength Bar and Parallettes we use at the Wild Training Gym offer a really nice way to get in to calisthenics for people that aren't as experienced with body weight training.
The parallettes allow you to practice sit position, press position and handstand position skills but thanks to their height you will get more time training and less time dragging your feet on the floor while you develop the early levels of strength you need to do these types of exercises with perfect form. Another benefit to using the parallettes is when gripping them your wrist will be in a straighter line compared to when you hand has to flex to plant on the floor. This means you can spend more time training without lots of wrist fatigue which means better results in less time. For developing great stability and strength in your upper body and linking that strength in to your abdominals and hips parallettes are incredible tools to add in to your training.
The Urban Strength Bar is very different to the parallettes but that's one of the best things about it. Variety is the spice of life.
The Urban Strength Bar brings together strength, flexibility and balance to achieve incredible results.
By enhancing movements with increasing levels of leverage the Urban Strength Bar can strengthen core muscle fibre which improves performance, reduces risk of injury and helps to tighten muscle tone to create beautiful body shapes by lengthening muscles.
It’s easy to work the whole body in the frontal, sagittal and transverse planes of movement, and in fact link all of those planes of movement together which is one of the reason the Urban Strength Bar can help so many different types of people, achieve different types of goals, in a way that they see those results transfer in to all of the sports and activities that they enjoy.
Calisthenics is about strengthening your body while lengthening your muscles so for us we think it can add something to literally every ones training. Whether you are training for weight loss, body shape, muscle tone or performance you will see and feel the results calisthenics deliver in everything you do. Results that transfer to life and sport.
Another amazing resource is the guys over at GMB Fitness. These guys are incredible and offer some great programs if you want to take calisthenics to the next level.
The parallettes and Urban Strength Bar are both available to buy from Physical Company so if you want to train with them at home you can get video programs from Wild Training and get going where ever you are.
Beautiful Strength that will help you go turbo ninja in every moment. Get on calisthenics now.