Expert guides on professional fitness equipment

Concurrent training builds athletes who are stronger and more durable than either discipline alone. This guide covers the benefits of pairing resistance work with running, how to structure the two across a training week, which muscle groups deserve priority and the mistakes that undo progress. Written for the operators who plan the programme and specify the equipment, it also sets out what a facility floor needs to deliver combined training properly.

Five approaches that move the bench press forward: technique under load, training frequency, pressing variations, mobility work, recovery, and what each one means for the equipment on your strength floor.

Both halves of the deadlift question for a commercial facility: how the lift is performed correctly, and what platform, flooring and bars the room has to provide.