Posts in “Fitness”
Why Strength Training Can Help High Blood Pressure
In this blog I’m going to look at why strength training can help high blood pressure and help you live longer! We have a number of blogs on our website that cover ways of controlling blood pressure without medication and how bad food can cause high blood pressure. See the links at the bottom of […]
Read articleSuns Out Guns Out! Bicep Workout
The winter is finally over. The sun keeps peeking through those clouds and we’re seeing short sleeves and vest tops sneaking in an appearance. If you’re going to join the Suns Out, Guns Out group and want to flex those muscles, training your biceps is a must, so enjoy this Bicep Workout from Personal Trainer, […]
Read articleHIRT Workout – The Workout From Hell…6-6-6!!
For those hardcore trainers that thrive on the feeling of having nothing left in the tank this workout is perfect for you. The HIRT Workout – high intensity resistance training – provides the perfect stimulation to increase resting energy expenditure (meaning you will be burning calories even after your session!!!), and also increases fat oxidation […]
Read articleThe Any Time, Any Place Body Weight Workout
As a Personal Trainer, I’m all for embracing any opportunity to exercise. So, just because you might not have any equipment at home doesn’t mean you can’t fit in a good workout – get that heart pumping, loosen up those limbs, move those muscles and release those endorphins! So, here is a body weight workout […]
Read articleA Review Of York Triathlon
Whilst tens of thousands of runners hit the streets of London last weekend (Sunday 26th April) to run the London Marathon, I was taking part in my first ever competitive triathlon – The York Triathlon. I say competitive triathlon because I took part in the Pink Triathlon last year, which was great but it’s a non-competitive […]
Read articleTime To Make A Change – Optimising Behaviour Change
Are you the type of person who is always procrastinating about achieving your health and fitness goals, will your new fitness regime start on Monday? Are you constantly trying to motivate yourself to achieve your goals? Well no more procrastinating….now is the time to make a change! Following on from last week’s blog about motivation […]
Read articleWhat Are The Benefits Of Wearable Fitness Technology?
Whether you run with your Smart phone, use My Fitness Pal or other apps to record food and activity levels, or wear a heart rate monitor; around 18% of us are now wearing some sort of fitness technology. Whether it’s to track our sleep, number of steps, or number of calories we have consumed AND […]
Read articleDeveloping Powerful Legs – Leg Power Workout
When athletes train to develop power in their legs their workout consists of Olympic lifts and their assistance exercises. If it’s good enough for an athlete its good enough for you! The following workout is fantastic to develop leg power as it will help develop the type IIb muscle fibres, these are the fibres that […]
Read articleHow Small Things Can Lead To Big Results – Resistance Training
Anybody who has trained with me over the years knows how much detail I love to put into plans. I am a huge believer in getting the small details right and leaving the big picture stuff to later. Once our personal training clients have got the key fundamentals correct then we move on to bigger […]
Read articleMotivating Yourself From Within
Exercise Psychology – Motivating Yourself from Within Psychology of exercise and physical activity can include vast amounts of concepts, theories and strategies. These may be future topics to cover in other blogs however I thought that covering our ability to develop our motivation and where it originates would help with both those struggling with motivation […]
Read articleStrength Training Session For Rugby
The type of position you play in rugby will ultimately determine the exact specifics of any workout, wingers need to focus more on speed strength elements in their training, where as props would focus on developing absolute strength and power. However, there are some staples all rugby players need in their training diet. Based on […]
Read articleIs Periodising Your Workouts Important?
I’ll let you all in on a little secret, the reason Motive8 North personal training clients are so successful is because as a company we invest a significant amount of time in periodising clients training programs. This doesn’t mean we simply change the program frequently, rather we build programs over long periods of time that […]
Read articleControl Your Cycling Pain!
This article will discuss injury prevention and management for cyclists whilst providing understanding of how the muscular system works during cycling. Phases of Cycling To learn how to modify things to reduce pain or prevent injury during cycling we need to understand which muscles are working and at which points during our pedal strokes they […]
Read articleBeach Body Workout
Easter has passed, and this normally marks the time of year when everyone starts thinking about their holidays, so we thought we would give you a great beach body workout to kickstart ‘Mission Beach Body!’ We all know that there isn’t one single magic “once-a-week” workout which will get you that beach body you’re after. […]
Read articleHow To Form The Exercise Habit
It can be very hard to get into the habit of exercising regularly, especially if you’re a busy individual. But let’s be serious if you really wanted to do it you would (in the words of a well known brand) just do it! You can train practically anywhere, you don’t need a gym, treadmill or even […]
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