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The Motive8 Games 2014

The evening of Thursday 7th August saw the 3rd motive8 Games, for those of you who have never heard of the motive8 Games, this is an annual competition organised by the motive8 personal trainers in Leeds. We launched the motive8 Games in 2012 to coincide with the Olympic Games and everyone had so much fun […]

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The Motive8 North Personal Training Team Achieve A Milestone!

Wow, I know I often talk about how busy we are but July saw a new milestone achieved for the motive8 North personal training team in Leeds…..we delivered over 300 personal training sessions in July. Wow!! Our highest number to date was 297…..so to hit the 300 mark is a fantastic achievement and speaks volumes about […]

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A Day In The Life of a PT | Diet

Low Calorie Diets

  What a busy week so far, for some reason this week all of my client’s health assessments seem to have come at once so I’ve been measuring a lot of my clients’ progress and reporting back to them about how their hard work is paying off! As a team of personal trainers we pride […]

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How Does Dehydration Effect Exercise Performance

In my blog last week I talked about my marathon training. On Friday I ran my longest distance so far in my training plan – 17 miles. It felt pretty good (at the time!) and on pace for my long run……it felt good to get another long run under my belt. When I got back […]

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Jenny’s Marathon Training Plan

This week the blogs from the personal training gang in Leeds are about training methods so Chris has asked me to write about my marathon training plan. Most of my personal training clients will know that I am very anal about getting my sessions in, and making sure I stick to my training plan with […]

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Preventing Diabetes

Wow this week has been busy busy at motive8 North. My personal training clients have worked really hard this week, it must be the sunshine putting a spring in people’s step, or reminding them that they go on holiday soon!! Honestly, there has been some serious energy in the sessions I’ve delivered…..I always feel really […]

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The Day of The Triathlon!

This weekend I tried something new…..I did my first ever triathlon! For those of you who follow my blogs you will know that I’ve been doing some training for it, but not tonnes as I’m marathon training and I didn’t want it to interfere with my marathon training too much. For this reason I chose […]

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Le Tour Yorkshire! Allez Allez!!

Are you excited about the Tour De France or Le Tour Yorkshire? I am! I must say when I first heard about ‘Le Tour’ coming to Yorkshire I wasn’t that bothered but I’ve really become caught up in all of the hype! I’ve remember reading Bradley Wiggins’ book on holiday last year and being quite […]

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Creating An Exercise Community

Last Saturday the motive8 team and some of our personal training clients took part in the Dragon Boat Race at the Leeds Waterfront Festival. It probably won’t surprise you that as a bunch of personal trainers we are pretty competitive, and some of our clients are too! Last year we placed 3rd and we were […]

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I Don’t Have An Hour, I Don’t Have Time!

I was sat working from my second office (starbucks) earlier this week and I overheard two people talking about exercise and how they didn’t have time to fit any exercise into their busy lives. Now, I appreciate how busy we all are, I have some personal training clients and friends who work phenomenal hours, but […]

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100 Happy Days or Just A Miserable Moo!

I made a decision this weekend and that was to stop posting my 100 happy days on Facebook. For those of you who don’t know 100happydays.com take a look at their website, I’ll be honest I love the concept and I think it is a great idea for making people sit back and realise all […]

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Rest Day!!!

I woke up this morning feeling rather excited…..it’s rest day!! Wow, I bet you would never have thought you would hear me be excited about not exercising but I am! My body is tired and a little bit sore and I have a 15 miler tomorrow so this rest day couldn’t have come at a […]

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More running and cycling!

So my love for cycling continues to grow…..as always it will never take the place of my one true love….running, and maybe love is a strong word……I LIKE it at the moment. Going off at a tangent but this will hopefully make you laugh, when I got married, Joel and I met the vicar in […]

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A Catalogue of Disasters!

I thought I’d brighten your week with my catalogue of disasters from the past few days of training which might make you smile! I think I have mentioned before that I’m quite well known for being quite clumsy when I exercise and Tuesday was a classic. I had barely got out of the street at […]

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An Epic Week at Motive8 North

I’m not sure if there is something in the air in Leeds this week but this week has been an epic week at motive8 North. Often in my blog I talk about my training, my diet and what I’ve been up to in general but today I want to talk about our clients and members. […]

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