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Our favourite 3 ways to train muscles to failure
As a personal trainer, I have spent years perfecting my craft and discovering the most effective ways to train a muscle to failure for optimal muscle hypertrophy. In this blog post, I will detail the top 3 best ways to train a muscle to failure for the purpose of creating the most optimal muscle hypertrophy, which include Effective Reps, 1 and a half reps, and Drop Sets, and explain why they work so well.
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3 Key ways to Improve your motivation for exercise
Motivation is a crucial factor in achieving fitness goals. However, it can be challenging to maintain motivation over the long term. Here are the top 3 techniques and strategies to help improve motivation to go to the gym and exercise.
The Ultimate Guide to Meal Prep: How to Save Time and Reach Your Fitness Goals
Meal prepping is a powerful tool for reaching your fitness goals, but it can be difficult to know where to start. As a Personal Trainer, I’m here to provide you with the ultimate guide to meal prepping, including how to plan your macronutrients in order to achieve your goals and why a proper diet is key to your fitness success.
The Science of Sleep: How to Improve Your Sleep and Enhance Your Workouts
As a personal trainer, I can attest to the fact that high-quality sleep is crucial for recovery between training sessions and for overall health and fitness. In this blog post, I’ll detail the importance of sleep for fitness and provide tips for improving your rest to enhance your workouts.
Lower back pain solved! Fix poor posture caused by your office chair
After this week’s Free Bootcamp Class I was asked about how to strengthen the lower back. I know a few of you work in offices, and I’m sure the image here is likely to be a familiar one.
Constantly Tired? Our Top 2 Ways to combat constant tiredness
This is a tricky subject and one I have been exploring for years. I have struggled with constant tiredness, and have gone from episodes of insomnia to periods of frequently waking up at night, and most commonly I just feel like all I want to do is sleep! When I do get going I find I have so much energy that I literally bounce off the walls, but it takes a lot to get there. I actually have a whole routine and a bunch of strategies I use to keep myself from allowing my lethargy from taking control or dictating my day.
What is a Pharmaceutical Grade Supplement?
Ever noticed how many of the supplements are packaging their products so that they appear more…medical? The packaging is in all white with hints of green or blue, has a medical name, and will often use the term ‘Pharmaceutical Grade’ (if the packaging doesn’t then often you will hear this from the sales rep.)
500 Calorie Challenge – The Results!
30 days ago I set out a plan to challenge myself. I aimed to burn 500 calories every single day, in one training session, in the shortest amount of time possible. I did this using my X Trainer (cross trainer) so I could burn more calories faster by increasing the resistance.
Alkaline diets. Marketing fad or the real deal?
This week I want to rant about alkaline and acidic diets, and what this means for our health. Many of you will likely know what I mean when I use the terms ‘alkaline diet’ or ‘acidic diet’, but for those who are yet to come across this celebrity diet fad, often called ‘the alkaline diet’ or ‘the acid alkaline diet’, then I’ll break it down for you:
500 Calorie Daily Burnout update!
My 500 calorie burnout is certainly a challenge which I have a real love hate relationship for now. My times in general are getting better, but I am having to push harder and faster – staying consistent but increasing the intensity with every bit of determination I have to do better every day. It certainly has reminded me of the difference between simply doing a workout and training hard to get a result! Visually I have noticed a big difference in my appearance (you’ll have to wait another 2 weeks for the photo’s I’m afraid!), and my easter ‘gut’ has certainly disappeared.
500 Calorie Challenge! Day 1
If you’re on my mailing list then you will already know that I am doing a little a research into how sustainable it is to perform an exercise session which burns 500 calories in the shortest time possible, every single day for 30 days. My session will consist of ta-ba-ta and long slow distance training.