Posts in “Fitness”


Exercise | Fitness | Injury | Personal Training | Recovery | Training

How To Warm Up Correctly

Everyone, in one way or another, will do a warm up prior to exercise. For some this may be a 5 minute jog on a treadmill followed by some mobility exercises and for others it can be a couple arm swings and a little ‘shake-off’. Whatever you do before your training, it is all for similar reasons: […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Lifestyle | Training

Deck of Cards Circuit Training Workout

Circuit training is great isn’t it? It has so many benefits: Improves your cardiovascular fitness Amazing for fat burning and therefore weight loss Great for improving muscle tone and endurance It’s versatile It’s lots of fun You can do it by yourself or with friends! If you fancy adding a little twist to a circuit […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Training

Rowing HIIT Session

Why Rowing Is Perfect For HIIT……And For This Festive Time Of Year…. It is ‘December-eve’, the festive period is just around the corner and the build up to Christmas is well and truly on! The only downside; the weather. It is getting very cold, not many hours of day-light and it is getting a bit icy and potentially dangerous. At this […]

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Exercise After A Cardiac Event

Exercise is a main determinant of cardiac events. This means a massive misconception is that exercise is only good for preventing cardiac events, but, less commonly known is that after a cardiac event exercise can still be completed regularly. Not only that, but exercise plays a key role in the prevention of a secondary event from occurring.  […]

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Super Strength Circuit Training Workout!

Any programme, strength, hypertrophy or endurance, can become very repetitive and monotonous. To keep you engaged and more importantly to keep your training new, fun and interesting try mixing up your sessions. Mixing up the style of session (circuits, super-sets, tri-sets etc.), the exercise selection in your sessions or even the time of day (or night) that you […]

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Diet | Exercise | Fitness | Lifestyle

I’m Pregnant – Now What?!?!

https://pixabay.com/en/pregnant-mother-body-pregnant-woman-1245703/ So here’s my caveat before I begin. We’re not doctors here at motive8. But we can give advice and recommendations based on our training and experiences. As most of us are pre and post natal qualified, we have trained and helped people from the start of their pregnancy, throughout the trimesters and after birth. […]

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Simplifying Endurance Training

During the final months writing my dissertation I often, similarly to many of my peers, looked for ways to procrastinate from finishing the 10,000 word piece of writing. The answer I came up with was exercise, specifically long distance running (it meant I spent the longest time away from my computer!). Although a successful distraction […]

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Classes | Exercise | Fitness | Personal Training | Squat | Training

Full Body Kettlebell Workout!

I’ve just spent an awesome three days at a fitness weekend. It’s a chance for me to unwind, generally have fun, be taught rather than teaching, and get ideas for clients and classes! As such, here’s a kettlebell workout based on the classes that I participated in. Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE Kettlebells […]

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Diet | Fitness | High protein | Nutrition | Recipes

Prawn Stir Fry

Winter is here, but that doesn’t mean you need to consume vast quantities of heavy starchy food, instead make a meal like this prawn stir fry and use spices to keep your meals warming and satisfying. This simple prawn stir fry can be whipped up in 20 minutes perfect after a hard day in the office. Serves […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Lifestyle | Personal Training | Psychology

Exercise – More Than Results

At motive8 we are super proud of the results we achieve with our clients but I’m often astounded by the other non-health related benefits which joining a gym, coming to classes or having pt sessions bring. I’m not talking about the mental health benefits, which are as beneficial as the physical benefits of exercise, but […]

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Building Muscle | Classes | Exercise | Fitness | Lifestyle | Personal Training | Training

Weak As I Am…..Overcoming Weakness

(image: https://pixabay.com/en/caricature-man-weak-effort-812270/) As personal trainers we hear this a lot – “my arms are so weak” , “am I the weakest client you’ve ever had?” and so on. As no one person is the same as the next, why would we be comparing ourselves to others – we shouldn’t be! And if you’re worried about your arms […]

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Diet | Fitness | High protein | Lifestyle | Low Fat | Nutrition | Quick meals | Recipes | Vegetarian

Wholefood Recipes

Ok, I’m going to be honest…..I didn’t do my weekly shop at the weekend. Yikes! What does that mean for my food for the next couple of days?!? Well, my cupboards contain a vast assortment of dried lentils, chana dal, quinoa, country soup mix, herbs and spices, and I reckon I have the odd stock cube, […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Injury | Personal Training | Squat | Uncategorized

Target Different Muscles with the Lunge

The lunge/ split-squat is a definite favourite of mine, it’s a diverse exercise that can be used to develop both force and velocity components. As well as this, the positioning of the feet can be maipulated to bring focus to different muscle groups and activation patterns. Here are a variety of modifications you can use […]

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Is Trampolining Really Good Exercise?

Most of you will know that I LOVE trying the more unusual types of exercise – aerial hoops and Pound as examples. So it’s only natural that I should give this trampolining thing a go! One of my clients returned from a break in Turkey talking non stop about rebounding (those mini trampolines) and what a good work […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Running

Hill Sprints Programme

If you’re a runner who wants to get faster and stronger at running or you’re looking to get into shape and shed some fat, hill sprints are a great way of hitting these results. One of the reasons I love hill sprints is because you squeeze a really intense session into a short period of time – perfect […]

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