Posts in “Fitness”
Why Haven’t You Had a Postural Assessment?
Is your knee playing up for no apparent reason? Do you have a little niggle in your shoulder that you can’t get rid of? Does your back ache after periods of sitting, standing or walking? Have you reached your maximum lift weight and can’t seem to push past it? Did you used to get told […]
Read articleHow To Improve Your Running Performance
Ten years ago if you had asked any runners how much strength training they included in their weekly regime, we could bet that it would be the minority. However, times are changing and many runners (and other endurance athletes for that matter) are realising how important it is to include strength training in their programme. […]
Read articleTop Tips For Fat Loss
The key to successful fat loss is a well oiled training programme and nutritional intake. Ensuring you are doing the right training and eating the correct food will result in fat loss, and remember if you’re looking for a change in your physique fat loss, not weight loss, is what you are looking for. Here […]
Read articlePersonal Training Success Stories – Guy Weston (Fitter, Stronger, Faster!)
As personal trainers, we don’t just measure a client’s success by their weight loss/gain, body fat reduction or their amazing six pack abs. It’s important to know that not all clients want these things. Regardless of what the end goal is, targets are set and achieving those targets through blood, sweat, loss of colour in […]
Read article5 Easy Ways To Fit Exercise Into Your Day
It can be hard sometimes to fit exercise into your day, everyone has busy lives. It’s easy to keep putting it off…..I’ll go tomorrow, I’ll go next week, I’ll start next monday. Ultimately if you want to improve your health, lose some fat or gain of muscle, you’re going to have to fit exercise into […]
Read articleUpper Body Workout – Strength And Power
When people talk about developing power they usually focus on their lower body and plyometric training. However the upper body can also be trained to develop strength and power. This upper body workout looks at developing both strength and power. Post-tetanic potentiation or PTP works on the principle that a more powerful muscular response can […]
Read articleHow To Stay Healthy At work And Resist The Treats
We know that busy lifestyles can make it hard to stay on track when it comes to eating properly. Last minute meetings, working lunches, surprise off site visits, unexpected late nights at the office, never ending conference calls and deadlines – they all affect our work life balance and it’s often the “life” part which […]
Read articleCalories In Easter Eggs… Surely One Won’t Hurt?
With Easter approaching it’s safe to say Easter eggs and chocolate treats are lining the shelves of all supermarkets, corner shops and petrol stations. For many people they see it as a time to treat themselves to an easter egg or two…..“it’s Easter after all” and if you have kids it’s often hard to resist […]
Read articleImproving Your Running Speed
I believe that becoming faster at running and improving your running speed is harder than improving your endurance to be able to run for longer. I don’t mean this from a physical point of view as we all have the capacity to get faster. I mean from a psychological point of view, let’s be honest, […]
Read articleTop 5 Fat Loss Myths
There is an awful amount of terrible information floating around regarding nutrition. The nutrition industry is largely unregulated, with so many self proclaimed nutritionists, companies pushing their own “research”, and pyramid companies forcing products down your neck it can be hard to see through the ‘fog’. This has led to many fat loss myths coming […]
Read articleHow to Keep Your Children Healthy And Happy
The World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity, as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century. Obese children and adolescents are at an increased risk of developing various health problems, and are also more likely to become obese adults. Whilst the majority of our personal training clients are […]
Read articleHow To Get Toned Legs
Put the fake tan down, step away from the step machine & stair masters and don’t even think about using one of those abductor/adductor machines…earlier this week we posted a workout for how to get perfect pins, now lets talk about that question we, as personal trainers , hear all the time ‘How do I get toned legs? Here […]
Read articleThe Perfect Pins Workout
When we train our female personal training clients, and some men for that matter, they often ask about toning their legs……getting the perfect pins. So, personal trainer, Kate Halsall, has come up with this Perfect Pins Workout to tone those legs…making anyone proud to wear a mini-skirt or hot pants! Our Perfect Pins Workout is a […]
Read articleHow To Train For Tough Mudder
It’s mud/obstacle race season, many of our personal training clients and gym members are taking part in these ever popular events so we thought we would write a blog about How To Train For Tough Mudder. Training for the Tough Mudder, or any other of the popular mud and obstacles runs there are these days, cannot […]
Read article5 Common Fitness Myths
Oh there are so many fitness myths around…….if you drink too little water your head shrinks, doing planks every day will get you ripped, an apple a day will keep the dentist away…… You saw it on You Tube, read it in the newspaper, or your training buddy told you – so it must […]
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