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We will be launching a new section of the site in the next few weeks and we need your help to do it.

The section is the long awaited gun show. It will be used to show short video clips of you guys performing your best lifts, pictures of you in your most muscular poses and stats to go with it.

If you have a submission please email it to us at: bestlifts@coopersguns.com

Please also include your full name, age, where you train and the relevant details.

For more information and examples follow the link: Enter The Gun Show

Thanks in advance – Team CoopersGuns

Construction on the core stability and rehab exercises is now complete with instructions.

Over 120 instructional videos have been added and even more to be added in the near future. The lovely Emma was kind enough to model for these videos – who says we aren’t good to you?

You can check these videos out via the videos section: Videos

Sarah has put up an excellent article on how to activate your core muscles, this is an essential read if you are doing any core stability work.

Read the full article here: A Brief Guide to Core Stability

CHD is a non specific term for syndromes where there is decreased blood flow to the heart. The coronary artery supplies the heart with nutrients. It branches from the ascending aorta and encircles the heart like a crown.

A heart attack is caused when there is a complete obstruction of the coronary artery, tissue distal to the obstruction dies and is replaced by non-contractile tissue.

Read the full article here: Coronary Heart Disease

The bottom line is that the more fatigued the calf muscles are the shorter and tighter they will become. This tightness will increase the stress on the Achilles tendon. A rupture usually occurs when there is force on the tendon that is greater than the tensile strength of the tendon.

When a rupture occurs there is often an audible “pop.”

Read the full article here: Achilles Tendon Rupture

• Can you smile?
• Can you say a simple sentence?
• Do you have weakness on one side of your body?

If you suspect someone has had a stroke ask him or her the above questions. If they cannot smile, have a weakness on one side of their body and cannot speak a simple sentence clearly then phone an ambulance straight away.

It is very important to recognise a stroke as soon as possible to decrease the amount of brain damage sustained. It is even more important nowadays as there is a new treatment called thrombolysis, which is having very good results but it can only be administered in the first three hours after a stroke. No treatment given by the medics can reverse the damage caused to the brain but treatments can prevent further damage being caused.

Remember that a stroke can be suffered by anyone at any age. It is certainly not uncommon for young people in their teens and twenty’s to have a stroke.

Other warning signs can include:

• Sudden numbness of the face, arm, or leg, especially on one side of the body
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding speech
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause