Posts in “Fitness”
Energy Systems and Fat Loss
Fat loss can be achieved if you know how your body uses energy and how to exploit it! This is were intervals come in! Many cardio machines in the gym will tell you to work at lower heart rate’s in order to burn fat, but as we all know, the current focus is on High […]
Read articleWhat Is BMI?
BMI or Body Mass Index is used by health professionals as an indicator or screening tool to assess any potential weight problems in a person. It is designed to classify whether someone is a healthy weight for their height. But is BMI the best way to classify whether someone is a ‘healthy’ weight? Under 18.5 […]
Read articleSwimmers Strength Workout
Strength Training for Swimmers To effectively train in the gym you need to consider what movements you are looking to improve in your sport and try and replicate these movement patterns in your workouts. The personal training team at motive8 North have put together a swimmers strength workout, but before you workout let’s have a brief simple look […]
Read articleHow Do I Gain Muscle?
Gaining muscle is a hard process which requires excellent programming in the gym, and equally as important, excellent dedication to eating the correct foods and in the right amounts. Many of our personal training clients will often ask ‘How do I gain muscle?, how easy is it to put on 1lb of muscle? First things first, gaining […]
Read articleCool Downs – The How and Why!
How many of you finish a workout, immediately get in the shower or grab your kit and go home? As with a warm up being important and often missed, so too is the cool down. During our workout we get our heart beating faster, get our blood pumping around our bodies, get hot and sweaty […]
Read articlePlyometrics and Rehabilitation
Plyometrics’ Place in Rehabilitation! The traditional interpretation of plyometrics is that they are explosive exercises that involve a stretch-shortening cycle of the muscles. This phenomena utilises the reactive ability of the muscles. Repeated bouts of jumping, or reactive drop jumps are examples of traditional plyometric exercises. The muscles go through a phase of stretch before […]
Read articleBody Weight Circuit – The 50 Rep Circuit!
Here is a body weight circuit that be performed anywhere from your home, garden, hotel room or even the beach leaving you no excuse not to get your session in. Exercises Press Ups Mountain Climbers Crunches Star Jumps Squats Your aim is to do 250 exercises and complete 3 sets of 250 exercises. Ideally you […]
Read articleWhen Is It a Good Time To Use Isolation Exercises?
Last week we discussed the merits of both compound and isolation exercises, and also their shortcomings. When it comes towards goal oriented training plans it is important to remember that neither is “better” than the other, rather there is a time and a place for each, and this depends on goals, time constraints, the health […]
Read articlePersonal Training Success Story – Stefanie Oliver
Having only been part of Motive8 North for a short space of time I am yet to have the impressive back catalogue of clients that the other trainers have. I do however have some amazing clients who are on their way to achieving great things when it comes to their goals. One of these clients […]
Read articleWarming Up – The How and the Why!
I guarantee that if there is a part of an exercise plan most people miss or choose not to do it is the warm up. Warming up is often seen as a waste of time, and not necessary, but it can be vitally important and can often be the one thing standing between you and […]
Read articleThe Ultimate Total Body Workout
If you’ve got around 30 minutes to get a fat loss session in, what is the most effective program? What is the ultimate total body workout?! Well here are my thoughts on the matter. We are going to use compound movements for the majority of the session, manipulate tempo to elicit a greater hormonal response, […]
Read articleCompound vs Isolation Exercises
The fitness industry is rife with camps of individuals singing from one book or another, google ‘compound vs isolation exercises’ and you’ll get somewhere in the region of 46,000 results and a whole manor of opinions. In reality, asking the question are isolation or compound exercises superior is like asking, should I go left or […]
Read articleGolf Rehab Exercises
Get Into The Swing… Golf involves the fluid motion and synchronicity of several joints and muscles. There is a lot of rotation and twisting that goes through the hips and lower back as well as a swing of the shoulders and arms. This makes it a web of things that can become an injury issue, […]
Read articleYour Very Own Golf Open Weekend
With the Golf Open on the television and a dry weekend weather prediction why not get in the spirit and have your very own Golf Open competition. If you are a keen golfer then dust off your clubs and get down for a round of golf at your local course and if you’re new […]
Read articleWorkout For Golfers
As the Open starts on Thursday the 16th of July, we’re in a golfing mood this week! When you’re training for golf, it’s about developing a full range of movement and improving flexibility, rotation, stability and core strength. With this in mind, we’ve developed a circuit style workout for golfers. Perform 12-15 reps of each exercise, […]
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