A five day a week core physical training programme for shooters to improve balance and proprioception.
Category Archives: Physical Training
Increased Emotion and Demand Training Programmes
Raising the stakes and adding more emotion and demand to training with more contracts.
Pilates for Pistol Shooters Training With Christina MacDonald
A few people have taken advantage of the lockdown to get productive and create helpful resources for pistol shooters (thanks!). Christina MacDonald, of Target Pistol Coaching, is one of them. She’s created a series of physical training videos for shooters based on the Pilates method: Pilates for Pistol Shooters and Pilates for Rifle Shooters. She’s not only a Pilates and Yoga instructor, she’s also a target sports athlete like we are, so she knows well what pistol shooters need and what it is like to train and compete.
Home Physical Training Exercises and Tools For Pistol Shooters
There are a lot of good pistol exercises being shared on social media and websites around the world, so I thought it would be good to have the best in the same page to make it easy to get some inspiration and do some of them.
Ramp-Up Pistol Training
After the starting post-vacation pistol training it is time to ramp-up training! Remember that where it says SCATT you can do regular range trainings if you are lucky enough to have access during this lockdown.
Inner Core Pilates Training for Pistol Shooter Improved Balance
Aurore Goberville gave me this programme as the first thing to work on to improve my pistol balance at the range (on top of the cardio exercises and holds I’m doing as part of my physical training).
Pistol Hold Exercises to Improve Balance and Strength
My favorite series of holding exercises for pistol shooting to increase strength, endurance and balance and to reduce wobble.