Posts in “Fitness”
Can Exercise Assist In The Prevention Of Cancer?
Can exercise assist in the prevention of cancer? This is a huge question and when you search this term it brings up over 500,000 journal articles! In reality it appears that exercise might be cancer specific, so rather than discuss cancer as a generic disease during this blog, we’ll approach the question, can exercise assist […]
Read articleGoal Setting Top Tips!
Goal Setting Tips: This article follows on from a series of blogs all looking to help you effectively change behaviour, motivate yourself and understand goal setting. In this post I will offer my own top tips to effective goal setting. Top Tips: Plan Ahead So you understand the principles of goal setting and are ready […]
Read articleIf It’s Bad Posture, Why Does It Feel Comfortable?
Sitting with your legs crossed, positioning your phone between your shoulder and chin, resting your body weight on one leg…aren’t the majority of us guilty of at lease one of these things? Worst still, we have probably done them for a long time without even thinking about it, and as such the positions feel perfectly […]
Read articleWhich Exercise Helps With Stress
Reducing the stress levels in your life is key to help you achieve your potential in everything you do including your training. High levels of stress results in a number of negative effects such as shortening life span,causing you to overheat and can stunt exercise and body composition results. Here are a few tips about […]
Read articleKettlebell Workout For Runners And Walkers
It’s no secret – on the 22nd of June we launch the Northern Monk Runners in association with motive8 North. It’s only fair therefore, to look at workouts which could boost your running performance! We also have personal training clients preparing for Ultra Marathons, Charity Walks, and 10k Assault Courses – so this kettlebell workout […]
Read articleBody Image – How Good Do You Look?
Body Image and Self-Perceptions What is Body Image? Body image is the mental image individuals have regarding their own body and the attitudes they have towards their body (Rudd & Lennon, 2000). It is made up of our self-perceptions, or simply how we feel we look to others. This is becoming an increasingly significant reason […]
Read articleIs Stress Causing You To Gain Weight?
We all know that when we are under stress, healthy eating habits and our normal training regimes are hard to maintain. It almost goes without saying that when we become less active and stop being able to make time to prepare our healthy meals, our weight is likely to be affected and increase, or if […]
Read articleCould Alcohol Be Ruining Your Hypertrophy Dreams?
Building muscle mass (hypertrophy) is hard work, I mean hard work. So many factors can affect the efficiency and speed at which you build muscle, one of the main one being… the parents that you picked! Others include, your nutrition, how much sleep you are getting and the quality of this sleep, how frequently you […]
Read articleSummer Outdoor Workout
Working out with a buddy can be beneficial – on those days one of you doesn’t want to train, the other will motivate you to do a workout. For those of you who are a touch competitive, the friendly competition might encourage you to work harder! Here is a great outdoor workout for you to […]
Read articleGoal Setting- Set Yourself Up For Success!
Goal Setting You may have already set yourself targets or have ‘dreams’ of achieving different things. Too many people will set themselves something to achieve and then never fully satisfy this goal. A great example of this are the New Year resolutions people make. They will tell themselves and others this year I want to […]
Read articlePersonal Training Success Story – James Underwood
Its always great to share a success story from one of our personal training clients at Motive8 North. Whilst many people think personal trainers only deal with weight loss clients, the truth may actually shock you. I would only classify roughly half of the clients I see as primary weight loss the clients. The other […]
Read articleGreat Glute Workout! How To Build and Shape the Derrière
Working the gluteus (butt!) can have huge benefits to your posture, performance, injury prevention and your aesthetics. However, working the gluteus is typically hard for most individuals, mainly for no better reason than poor exercise form. Exercise form is so critical in working the glute group that it literally can mean the difference between activation of […]
Read articleWhat Is DOMS? (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness)
Everyone who has ever worked hard in their training will have experienced DOMS at some point. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a little like the famous Marmite you either love it or you hate it. Some people feel like they have not worked hard if they don’t feel sore, or get DOMS, after and […]
Read articleManage Your Shoulder Pain
Shoulder Rehabilitation The shoulder is a very complex joint, most of us will have or will do, at some point, experience shoulder pain. The shoulder itself has a large range of movement and is a highly mobile joint. This large range of movement has its downfalls because the stability is sacrificed to achieve these ranges. There […]
Read articleChest And Back Superset Workout
Here is a chest and back superset workout, perfect for muscle hypertrophy of these key upper body areas! For this chest and back superset workout complete 4 sets per superset with 30 seconds rest between each superset. Note that the rep range varies per exercise. Superset 1 1A) Deadlifts x 15 reps 1B) Press ups […]
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