If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
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14 May 2013, written by admin
Killing the Quitter
I recently read a tweet by Gym Jones disciple Matt Owen which stated, “if you don’t think about quitting at least a few times during a 2000 meter row, you aren’t going hard enough.” While the 2000 meter row provides an excellent examination into the psychological strength of an athlete, the theory behind this statement isn’t limited to it.
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30 April 2013, written by admin
How To Diet
Food occupies an enormous part of our psyche. We measure time by it, we celebrate occasions with it, we are often at war with it. So how do we learn to manage the problem food has become for so many of us?
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05 April 2013, written by admin
Why You Need To Get Stronger
At Roark, our programming doesn’t involve rushing through a quick fix programme and crash diet to get you ‘bikini ready’ – although that might be a goal of yours. Our aim is to teach you to use your body properly, to get steadily stronger, which will allow you to put yourself in better and more efficient positions during exercise, therefore increasing your fitness and making your body stronger, leaner and fitter.
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03 April 2013, written by admin
Pick Up The Bar
For those who have had some experience of our training, you will know that in every workout there comes a point where your mind tells you that you should stop or slow down. This is usually around the middle section of any workout where your mind registers that you’re starting to fatigue, while also realising you’ve still got to go as far as you’ve come.
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26 March 2013, written by admin
Catch Me If You Can
Anyone with an inquisitive mind seeks to understand how different successes are achieved. We are drawn to success, and naturally measure our own ability to achieve it. We’ve all experienced the thought of “if he did it, so can I” when hearing of someone whom we consider to be our equal at a specific discipline having achieved success within it.
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19 March 2013, written by admin
Go Karting Champion David Perel Writes About Training At Roark
Roark member and African go karting champion David Perel writes for us on his experience at Roark, and how the training has assisted him in his quest to compete at the World Championships.
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15 March 2013, written by admin
Why we don’t have mirrors in our Women’s Gym
One thing which is immediately noticeable on entering our new women’s gym is that there are no mirrors. If you’ve trained at a globo gym for most of your life, this may seem a strange concept, considering that these ‘health’ clubs are usually lined with mirrors to assist you in checking out every angle of yourself.
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11 March 2013, written by admin
What inspires change?
Its an interesting thought. What makes someone change what they’ve been doing regularly over a long period of time, to give something else a try?
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Killing the Quitter
I recently read a tweet by Gym Jones disciple Matt Owen which stated, “if you don’t think about quitting at least a few times during a 2000 meter row, you aren’t going hard enough.” While the 2000 meter row provides an excellent examination into the psychological strength of an athlete, the theory behind this statement isn’t limited to it.
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Why You Need To Get Stronger
At Roark, our programming doesn’t involve rushing through a quick fix programme and crash diet to get you ‘bikini ready’ – although that might be a goal of yours. Our aim is to teach you to use your body properly, to get steadily stronger, which will allow you to put yourself in better and more efficient positions during exercise, therefore increasing your fitness and making your body stronger, leaner and fitter.
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Why we don’t have mirrors in our Women’s Gym
One thing which is immediately noticeable on entering our new women’s gym is that there are no mirrors. If you’ve trained at a globo gym for most of your life, this may seem a strange concept, considering that these ‘health’ clubs are usually lined with mirrors to assist you in checking out every angle of yourself.
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Why you’ll never look like a supermodel, and it’s a good thing
We are taught for most of our lives that some of us are sporty, and the rest of us aren’t. We like to perpetuate this belief because it allows us to be lazy, to hide our inactivity behind labels such as ‘bad genes’. We flip through magazines and sigh, ‘I’ll never look like that’. And for the most part, we’re right. Not because you didn’t hit the gene jackpot, but because you’re comparing yourself to someone you are not.
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The food thing: Eating to gain
A beginner athlete will often have many questions, one of them being ‘what should I eat to get a body like so-and-so’. One thing Roark athletes realize very quickly is that in order to be able to use your body, you need to feed it properly. By this we don’t mean carbo-load or protein shake or take supplements or even cutting carbs – we mean understanding how your body works and what it needs to deal with the level of work required. That level is dependent on what you wish to get out of your body, that is, the goal that you set for yourself.
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How Roark Women Works: Coaching, classes, packages and pricing
Roark Women is a gym which caters exclusively to women. The gym is a large, private space with a view over the city, and is stocked with the best available equipment. View aside, there are no saunas here, and no hairdryers. We will not lie to you and tell you that exercise should be a gentle trot on the treadmill followed by a steam. If you’re here you’ve probably noticed that that doesn’t work.
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An introduction to training at Roark Gyms
Roark Women is due to open March 2013 and is situated on the 3rd Floor of The Buying Service Building, which is situated on the corner of Roeland and De Villiers Streets – opposite the Ferrari Garage on Roeland. The gym is one floor above the Men’s gym. Before you start training with us we will need to set up an introductory coaching session with one of coaches. This will take roughly an hour, during which we will explain how the sessions will work, show you around the gym as well as go over the fundamental movements we practice.
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What makes Roark Women different to other gyms?
At Roark, we are firmly against the ‘one size fits all’ policy. It is ludicrous that men and women be required to follow the same training programme, or even be taught the same movements, when our bodies are built for such different functions. It must be noted right at the outset that this does not mean women cannot compete with men, it only means that their bodies have different compositions, and that this should be kept in mind at all times when considering programming.
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