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Sample Meal Plan for Weight Loss.
To achieve the best body composition and look amazing you should eat a diet high in protein and good fats and low in complex carbohydrates. Here is a sample meal plan for weight loss with some recipes that tick all those boxes ENJOY! Pepper, Tomato & Ham Omelette This is a great option for breakfast […]
Read articleNo Equipment HIIT Workout
Think you can’t get a good workout with no equipment? Think again…..try this no equipment HIIT workout. Remember for a HIIT workout to be effective you must give 100% to all of the exercises you perform. If you’re not out of breath at the end of each interval you need to work harder! Complete each […]
Read articleA Personal Trainers View on Wasabi
The Wasabi website boasts that the sushi is made from scratch in-branch every morning and uses only the freshest and finest ingredients – and I have to say, I’ve never been disappointed! The thing with Wasabi is that you don’t have to like fish (or rice for that matter) to eat there – I’m vegan […]
Read articleThe Day I Flipped A Tractor Tyre 1000 Times For Charity
On Saturday I completed 1000 tractor tyre flips to raise money for Tom Foundation (Take One Moment) I woke up on Saturday feeling a mix of nerves and excitement. I felt ready but also a little bit apprehensive that I had only flipped 600 in training and flipping the extra 400 was unknown territory. The […]
Read article20 Minute Workouts
If you don’t think you have enough time to fit in a workout then you’re wrong! Here are some 20 minute workouts to fit in instead of lounging on the sofa watching the latest soap! Make sure you warm up thoroughly before each workout. Finish each workout with a coll down and stretch. WORKOUT 1 […]
Read articleMotive8 Running Club!
The Abbey Dash is fast approaching. Whilst the 16th of November may seem like a long way away, if you start training at the start of September you only have 10 weeks to get ready for the race! Following the success of our last Motive8 Running Club, we’re starting another one on Thursday the 11th […]
Read articleHow To Target Weak Muscles
Ever noticed how when you bench press that you feel it in the front of your shoulders and upper arms rather than your actual chest? How about when you squat, do you feel it more in your quads and very little in your glutes? You’ve even asked people to check your technique and have been […]
Read article10k Running Plan for Beginners
On the 11th of September, we start our Motive8 Running club at our Fitness Studio at Saxton. Starting it on this date gives participants 10 weeks to get ready for the Abbey Dash 10k; but a lot of people leave it to last minute to decide to enter a race and as such we don’t […]
Read articleHow I Train – Kate’s Training Plan
Because I teach fitness classes as well as being a personal trainer, I receive a lot of feedback from people who think I do loads of exercise so I don’t need to train. To some extent it’s true, there are classes that I teach which I physically do – Pump and Spin being two examples. […]
Read articleNo Equipment Workout
If you don’t have any equipment at home then give this ‘no equipment workout’ a whirl! Aim to move from exercise to exercise as fast as possible to keep your heart rate elevated so you have an amazing cardiovascular and fat burning workout!! A. Warm Up 5 minutes walking or light jogging. Skipping is […]
Read articleHow the Flip is Lucy Training To Flip A Tyre 1000 Times?!
Hopefully people are aware that on the 20th September 2014 I will be flipping one of our famous motive8 tyre one thousand times for a charity very close to my heart set up by my family ‘ Take One Moment’. When I first stood in the farm yard back home looking for tyres that could give our personal training […]
Read articleCircuit Training Workout
A lot of what we teach in freestyle classes such as HIIT and Boot Camp, is founded on the principles of Circuit Training. It’s a set of exercises looking at strength and stamina, flexibilty and endurance. Each exercise lasts a certain number of reps or time and there is a slight rest before moving on […]
Read articleChange Your Approach to Breakfast
Today I searched the Motive8 North site and you know what, we have blogged over 10 times about breakfast – about why it’s so important to eat it (http://www.m8north.co.uk/blog/breakfast-really-important/) and we’ve even provided some recipes to boot (http://www.m8north.co.uk/blog/low-gi-breakfasts/). Yet it still seems to be the toughest meal of the day to get your heads around. […]
Read articleWhen And When Not To Use High Reps
Today there are still people that we talk to who use low weight loads and high repetitions as they believe it means that you’ll burn fat and get “toned” without bulking up. Whilst we now understand that to get “toned” we need to first reduce the body fat which surrounds our muscles, and then create […]
Read articleBelly Fat Facts!
We call it by so many names: “Puppy Fat”, “Middle Age Spread”, “Spare Tire” – but for the majority of you, it won’t matter what you call it, you just want to get rid of it. The problem is, we still see people ending their workouts with 10-15 minutes of sit ups and crunches; there […]
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