Client Success Stories – Mighty Matt!
Most client success stories use weight and fat loss/muscle gain as their focal point, but “Mighty Matt’s story is different. Whilst he has achieved a significant transformation in his body composition, his growing love for specific exercises and his new found confidence and performance in fitness challenges is the success here. Mighty Matt: The Road […]
Read more8 Exercise Combinations for HIIT Workouts
I’m a big fan of short, snappy, bodyweight HIIT workouts. Not only does it mean you can do them virtually anywhere, but it means that your fat burning, sweaty workout is over quickly! However, whilst I still view star jumps as the queen of exercises (and squats as the king), there are rare occasions where […]
Read moreGuilt Free Tiffin
As promised to our Instagram followers, here is a guilt free tiffin recipe. I was introduced to this a few weeks ago and now can’t get enough of the stuff! Of course if you eat the whole block, it’s not guilt free! It’s also dead simple to knock together; well, if like me you have most of the […]
Read moreMy Time at Motive8 – Alex Carrie
Hopefully this won’t be too morbid – but I thought it may be nice for my last blog to be a little bit about my time here as a Personal Trainer at motive8 – as well as a little thankyou to the members, classes, my clients, my fellow PTs and most importantly Jenny. I […]
Read moreUn-Scrabble Your Fitness Terms!
Friday the 13th April was National Scrabble Day. In homage to that, this article looks at the highest scoring scrabble letters and links these to a common gym or fitness terms. We’re using the letters that are worth 4 or more points to un-scramble your fitness terms. These are: F (4), H (4), J (8), K (5), Q (10), […]
Read moreWarm Green Vegetable Salad
The sun is finally here – for this week at least! For this food blog, I thought of spring and took inspiration from a Deliciously Ella recipe. I’ve not had asparagus for a long time (it’s not fodmap friendly), but I do love it. There really is a healthy feel about an all green vegetable salad – […]
Read moreMy Do It In 12 Journey – 3 Weeks To Go!
I can’t believe that there are only 3 weeks to go in my Do It In 12 journey! I’m not going to say it’s been perfect; there have definitely been highs and lows, moments of self-sabotage, a harsh word (or two), but also some real feel good moments. Lessons Learnt So Far Exercise needs to part […]
Read moreAre You Training For Your Body Type Part 3 – Mesomorph
This is the last in our series of blogs on Body Types and how the right training and nutrition can influence your results. Today we focus on Mesomorph, but if you have missed the rest of the series, fear not, as the links are at the bottom of the page. The Mesomorph Revealed Britannica.com describes […]
Read moreWhy Should You Get A Personal Trainer?
Have you ever found yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place with your training? Have you ever been on that verge of seeking a Personal Trainer and then never getting round to it? Then this article may help push you over that edge, or at least tickle your taste buds for that extra […]
Read moreStrength Training Workout
In my personal opinion, but also an opinion that is shared by many practitioners around the world; strength underpins so many sporting and clinical attributes. Anything from the ability to decelerate, change direction and re-accelerate to the overall quality of life, can be affected by strength. That’s why it’s important to include an element […]
Read moreCalorie Deficits & Weight Loss
Today we’re talking calorie deficits. Calories required to lose weight or in personal training terms what we would describe as being below your ‘maintenance’ calories or what most others would call being “on a diet”. There is a ton of information out there on dieting. Some of it useful. A LOT of it complete quack or junk!!!. […]
Read moreA Barbell Metabolic Blast!
The following barbell metabolic workout is a simple, quick, and effective workout for getting you sweating and ramping up the ability to eat away those Easter calories. I can share in your pain with this one, I have been working through several barbell complexes (including this one) for several weeks and they are brutal but […]
Read moreAre You Training For Your Body Type Part 2 – Ectomorph
A couple of weeks ago, I looked into Body Type training to help with my Do It In 12 journey. If you want to know how that is going, stay tuned for my update blog on that! In the meantime, it’s time to look at one of the other body types as ultimately it could influence […]
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