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HIIT Workout – Pyramid Workout

This is a great HIIT workout, based on a HIIT pyramid workout it is guaranteed to burn fat! For this HIIT workout for the first three rounds, increase your reps by five. The last two rounds are descending numbers of reps. Round 1 – 10 reps Round 2- 15 reps Round 3- 20 reps Round 4 […]

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Diet | Lifestyle | Uncategorized

What Are The Facts About Fat In Your Diet

Low fat diets sound like a good idea, eat less fat gain less fat and all that. It seems to make sense doesn’t it, but in reality that’s probably one of the poorest nutritional choices you could make, especially if your goal is fat loss. Like everything to do with nutrition you’ll find a variety […]

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How To Choose A Personal Trainer

Last week we blogged about the Top Fitness Trends for 2015, according to the American College of Sports Medicine. Interestingly enough, number 3 was ‘ Educated, certified, and experienced fitness professionals’. Rather than this just be about fitness professionals holding the relevant qualifications, more so, it was about colleges and universities offering fitness related qualifications either […]

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Personal Training Success Story – Rachel Greenwood

Per Personal Training Success Story – Rachel’s Journey – Part 1 In June 2014 I promised my new client Rachel that she would be below 15 stone by January 2015. In return I asked if she would share her weight loss experience to, hopefully, help and inspire others. Well, all I can say is she […]

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Pre Workout Meals

Pre Workout Meals Many people believe a post workout meal is the most important meal of the day to ensure macro nutrients replenish the body and often more effort is made to prepare and consume these. However, Your PRE workout meal is the meal that plays the largest role in supplying your body with everything […]

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This Girl Can

Have you seen the ‘This Girl Can’ ad campaign by Sports England, I’ll be honest I haven’t seen it yet but I happened to read about the campaign in the weekend papers. As I understand it, the This Girl Can campaign, is about inspiring ‘real’ women to become more active. Sport England are still hugely aware that […]

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What Are The Benefits Of Body Weight Training?

In the fitness industry there are camps, clicks and groups dedicated to every form of training. I’ve had the privilege (?) of meeting many of these interesting creatures. I’ve been told you should that dance is the best for sculpting legs, you should hoola hoop to drop body fat, yoga classes are the cure for […]

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Building Muscle | Diet | Exercise | Fitness | Uncategorized

Meals And Tips To Build Muscle

  Here are some meals and tips to build muscle. The meals are great if you’re looking to build muscle and our nutritional tips will help to maximise your muscle gain. Tips: Eat enough protein. You should be eating 1.6-1.8g per kg of body weight of protein per day Eat high-quality protein and fat at […]

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Exercise | Fitness | Running | Uncategorized

14 Week London Marathon Training Plan. 4 Hour Target!

If you’re an intermediate runner, breaking the 4 hour mark can sound a little daunting, using this 14 week London Marathon Training Plan will be provide an excellent framework to help you challenge that time. There are a few assumptions if your going to want to follow this plan. You can commit to running 30-40 […]

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Weight Loss Plan for Females – 1500 Calories

Here is a meal plan for one day, it is a weight loss plan for females based on 1500 calories per day. Calorie counting as a way of weight loss can be very helpful, however don’t just focus on calories, you also need to eat the right foods. It’s not just about the calories it’s […]

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Staying Injury Free When Skiing

Going skiing is great fun, what’s more fun is keeping injury free whilst skiing and believe it or not there is a lot you can do in the gym that can help prevent most of the common injuries. Before we get into injury prevention of skiing lets look at the latest ski injury facts: 33.4% […]

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How To Avoid Winter Weight Gain

How to avoid winter weight gain can seem like a difficult question at times. In fact there has been no scientific evidence that we are biologically predisposed to weight gain during the winter months. Well unless your a bear, which has changes in its hunger hormones before it goes into hibernation but it’s rare we […]

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How Alcohol Effects Your Weight

As Christmas fast approaches it can only mean one thing…..PARTIES…..and this, for some people, can also only mean one thing….ALCOHOL! Now the personal training team at motive8 North are not saying we don’t want you not to drink and have a good time, BUT if you are looking to retain your svelte figure over the […]

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Christmas Fitness Equipment Wish List

The count down to Christmas is about to begin and there has been a lot of talk about Christmas shopping so here is our Christmas fitness equipment wish list from stocking fillers to bit of a bigger treat. A Sports Watch A good sports watch is always a fantastic investment and with technology now a days […]

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App Review Of Interval Timer by Deltaworks

I recently stumbled upon a free app called Interval Timer. Being a personal trainer where everything we seem to do is measured by the second I can honestly say it has made life a thousand times easier. Interval Timer is exactly what it says on the tin, its a simple app where you set a […]

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