In sport and exercise, we are often inundated by new trends and fads, many times because people are looking for the quick fix. The secret formula in sport will never be a quick fix. Success is a long process of [...]
Training at home with no or minimal equipment is not equivalent to going to the gym. If you are a professional athlete, training at home can't be your first choice unless you have a professional home gym with everything you [...]
How many times did you ask yourself if you were doing the right amount of reps at a given load? Often, athletes without a coach make the mistake of doing too many total reps, or too little at a certain [...]
With over 13 years' working within health and fitness, Dean Lester has experienced first-hand the benefits of Strength & Conditioning within Personal Training. Witnessing both positive and negative movements in the fitness industry, he recognises Strength & Conditioning as important [...]
Becoming a nutritionist, personal trainer or both shouldn’t always be about weight loss. Too often you see the online marketing focusing solely on how many kilos a person has lost to draw the eyes of new potential clients. Fair enough, [...]
Performance nutrition and making weight is a fine balance between achieving the required weight loss without affecting the athletes performance and energy levels. It can also have a huge psychological effect so making things easier for your athlete on a [...]
Ahead of Uruguay's first match against Fiji in the Rugby World Cup, we sit down with Setanta College student, Dean Lester, who took up a 9-month strength and conditioning internship with the Uruguay National Rugby Union. Working alongside Craig White, [...]
A fascinating sub-plot to this Rugby World Cup is the story of the Irish names involved. Within Federazione Italiana Rugby there is obviously the head coach, Conor O'Shea, while a key member of the Italian backroom team hails from Dundrum, [...]
In 1991 Setanta College founder, Liam Hennessy, featured on a Tipperary backroom team which came up against a fancied Kilkenny side in the All-Ireland final. You could say it was a precursor to the great rivalry that developed between the [...]
Many sports use the guidelines described in one of several Long Term Athlete Development models, otherwise known as LTAD or LTPD pathways. While early models were described in the 1980s, it was not until the late 1990s and into the [...]
