Posts in “Diet”
Healthy Valentine’s Day Recipes
Here are some fantastic healthy Valentine’s Day recipes from breakfast in bed to a romantic meal for two! No need to use it as a reason to indulge in unhealthy food, enjoy our healthy Valentine’s day recipes instead. But, you don’t have to be celebrating valentines day to take advantage of these yummy recipes, enjoy […]
Read articlePre 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 […]
Read articleHealthy Post Workout Meals
Here is a sample of quick, easy and most of all healthy post workout meals. These healthy post workout meals include a great balance of carbohydrates , proteins and healthy fats needed to replenish those tired muscles. Super Healthy Salmon Salad Kcal 320 Protein 30g Carbs 30g Fat 10g sat 4g Serves 2 Ingredients 100g bulgar wheat. […]
Read articleWill Juicing Diets Help You Lose Weight?
There are many varied opinions on the benefits of a juicing diet. This particular diet fad has become increasingly popular especially over the post Christmas period with many people looking to lose weight quickly. But will juicing diets help you lose weight? There are a number of pros and cons surrounding this dieting technique […]
Read articleThis Year’s New Diets
As personal trainers, we need to keep up to date with the newest fat busting, calorie zapping, detoxifying, no food no taste diets that are out there. Not to promote them to our clients as we stand by the motive8 Nutitional Plan being the best approach for our clients but it’s good to know what […]
Read articleMeals 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 […]
Read articleWeight Loss Plan For Men – 2000 Calories
Here is a sample weight loss plan for a man, based on 2000 calories. Calorie counting as a way of weight loss can be very helpful, however you need to ensure these calories come from the right food. As an example for 2000 calories you could eat on average 12 chicken breast or 7 […]
Read articleWeight 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 […]
Read articleHealthy Restaurants in Leeds – A Review of Cattle Grid
If you live in Leeds you really are spoilt for choice for places to eat. We certainly have some of the greatest restaurants for meat-eaters and anyone who knows me knows I love eating meat! I love a steak and I can confidently say I cook a good steak so when I go […]
Read articleThe Right Diet For You
Have you seen the three part Horizons ‘The Right Diet For You’ series on the BBC this week? I know many of our personal training clients have been speaking about it, so I’ve spent the last two nights catching up on it. Admittedly, I haven’t seen the final series but so far I think it’s […]
Read articleCheap And Healthy Meals For January
If you are feeling the pinch of the Christmas spend and want to save some money but still eat healthy, never fear the personal training team at motive8 are here to help! Here are some cheap and healthy meals for January. These recipes all serve 4 people so are great for you and the family […]
Read articleAre There Benefits to Dry January?
It’s cold turkey time again – and just not in terms of Christmas leftovers! Whether it’s the New Year Detox, the much needed break for your liver after Christmas excess, a chance to raise money for charity or the ‘New Year, New You’, Dry January is here again. But other than saving you some money, […]
Read articleWill Detoxing Help You Lose Weight?
So this is the year your going to get healthy and you’ve read that detoxing will help you start to feel less sluggish and lose weight after Christmas! But will it? Will detoxing help you lose weight? Without mention names, you won’t see a shortage of people pushing this crap left right and centre, it […]
Read articleWhat Does A Vegan Eat At Christmas?
I’m a vegan and I’m constantly asked ‘What Does A Vegan Eat At Christmas?’ so I thought I’d blog about it! We’re catering for 3 Christmas meals this year – ones with friends and the others with family. I’m in charge of the veggie options – and I don’t just mean roast potatoes! So let […]
Read articleA Personal Trainer’s Food Diary – Chris Baird
We thought that you might interested in taking a sneaky peak at what the Personal Trainers at motive8 North eat and how we stay fuelled for days. So to kick off the the series of ‘A Personal Trainers Food Diary’ we thought we would kick of with personal trainer Chris Baird (aka Doctor Evil) Here, for […]
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