Carl Raghavan testimonial
I had a coaching session with Carl just yesterday in London. He gave me some very good pointers to improve my form and as he coached me through all 5 lifts. Practicing press 2.0 under his guidance was awesome too, as I normally use a 1.0 form.
His observation and advice on all my lifts feels like gold, and I will aim to implement those in my training. As I'm battling with some SI joint issues he also gave me an activity that I'll try out if it aids in the healing process.
If you can get to London and interested in a coaching session, go see the guy, as he's the real deal.
Session with Carl Raghavan
Attended Crossfit Evolving in London with Carl Raghavan yesterday. Despite having trained for two years and thinking my form was okay, Carl picked up on the slightest details which most people would miss and instantly made all of my lifts stronger; wider squat stance, cues for tighter deadlifts, power clean assistance and breaking down the press 2.0. The information Carl has provided me with was absolutely invaluable and serves as a huge credit the starting strength team. This was my first coaching experience and my expectations were exceeded in every way. I hope anybody in europe who thinks about getting advice from Carl takes it up because it has already helped me tremendously. Within the first five minutes my squat was already improved.
Thanks for your help Carl! Hopefully next time I attend it won't be on FA cup final day. The traffic in London is ridiculous!
Carl Raghvan - great UK strength coach - try him out!
Recently arranged a one-off training session with Carl Raghvan in London, just to ensure my son (15 years old) and myself (early 40s and not getting any younger) are doing our strength exercises correctly. We're both new to lifting weights and have read the Starting Strength book, but wanted to have someone with experience and knowledge help us out in person.
Carl was excellent - knowledgeable, safe, funny, encouraging - able to show us on others what "correct" looked like, and able to tell us when we were holding the bar when we were doing it right so that we also learnt what "correct" felt like.
We covered squats, press, power clean (which we'd never done before), dead lift and bench press - Carl spent nearly 3.5 hours in total getting us lifting and explaining why different aspects of the techniques were safe, effective, and the best way to perform each exercise.
Carl was great at motivating us too - if we started talking more than lifting, he let us know that wasn't the aim of the session - he got us working! And if we said that things were getting a bit heavy, he pushed us to put on additional weight when he thought we were able to do more (and he was right, too)!
As a beginner, having a session like this with someone of Carl's knowledge, experience and ability was invaluable. Highly recommended.