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A Day In The Life of a PT

Supplements?

All the trainers at motive8 North have been blogging about supplements. What are your thoughts on them? I must say that my view was that if you had a varied, balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle then you shouldn’t need to take supplements but over the past few years my views have changed. That’s not […]

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I’m Beginning To Like Cycling!

Did you have a good bank holiday, I did! In addition to my usual my weekend routine such as working , washing, tidying, etc I also saw Prince in concert. He was amazing, I can safely say that to date this is the best concert I have ever been to! If I can move like […]

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Have You Got What It Takes?

How has your week been? I hope it’s been good. Mine has been great! Do you remember a couple of blogs ago I mentioned I had been trying new foods well I’m still at it and I’m loving the variety in my meals. Training has gone well this week so far, my legs are a […]

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DOMS

Well I’m a bit disappointed this morning…..I did a hard interval training session yesterday on the canal, 1 mile reps, with 1/2 time recovery x 6. I even had better splits for the miles than I did last week….so why am I disappointed, surely I should be pleased! Well I am pleased with the training […]

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Stuck In A Food Rut!

Forgive me motive8 fans for I have sinned! A few weeks ago I committed a sin I tell my clients not to do and that is get stuck in a food rut! Slap on the wrist for me! And yes, before you ask I do plan my food, so how on earth did this happen?! […]

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Kind Words From A Client

I’ve been off-site quite a lot this week as I’ve been working with some other Leisure Clubs we manage on behalf of another company. When I have been at our personal training studios I have taken some time to sit back and appreciate everything going around me….the team of personal trainers encouraging people to achieve […]

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People Watching

As always this has been a busy week at the motive8 personal training studio in Leeds. We’ve had quite a few new people start personal training with us this week, it’s great taking on new clients and educating them and working with them to achieve their goals. I always enjoy delivering my personal training sessions, […]

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Is Fresh Fruit And Veg Expensive?

I’m currently working in London with the motive8 team at the moment, so I was here yesterday and then another day at Head Office today before travelling back to Leeds tonight. My train yesterday was at 7am so that meant a nice early workout at 530am, yesterday morning my workout consisted of 6 x 30sec […]

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Government Recommended Amount of Physical Activity

On a Tuesday evening I have a group personal training session at one of our corporate clients. After this I normally have personal training clients at our Marshall Court studio. This evening I when I walked into the studio Chris had a boot camp in full swing, Lucy was waiting to put some clients through […]

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Tired legs!

It’s only 6am and my day is already off to a flyer…..up at 515am this morning ready to start the day with mushrooms, kale and eggs……mmmmmm……have I ever told you how much I love kale?! Today is going to be a busy day, I have three clients back to back from 630am this morning, one […]

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My Lovely Personal Trainers In Leeds

I’ve been pondering what to write about for the last few days in my blog, you must be sick to death of hearing about me and my running, or what I’ve had for tea (baked eggs again last night….yum!) So, I thought I’d write about my personal trainers in Leeds, for without them, motive8 North […]

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Eating Your 5 A Day

Wow today has been a mad , crazy but productive day! This morning started with three personal training sessions back to back, a strength training session with one of my female clients, a group personal training session followed by another strength training session with another female client. Following my personal training sessions I had my […]

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Exercise Classes….Jenny….The New Jane Fonda?!

Hello, hope you have had a good last couple of days…I certainly have! On Monday I took a rare half day, so after a couple of personal training sessions in the morning, doing my own training session – Monday was weights, plyometrics and flipping a tyre around for a bit (I was going to write […]

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A Day In The Life of a PT | Recipes

Baked Eggs!

So yesterday on facebook I posted an updated asking whether it was sad that I was excited about having baked eggs for tea! This got a few responses, some people saying yes and others asking what baked eggs were. I’m not even sure baked eggs is the right name for what I made last night […]

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Is Being Obese Normal?

The last few days have been great for training. I was working in London at the motive8 Head Office on Friday, I will confess….my plan had been to get up early on Friday morning and get into the gym before catching my train at 7am. This would have meant a 5am workout, and I’m afraid […]

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